Chapter 2
1. "A process that helps us act in a different manner and imagine new horizons within which to act."
Process is what makes Art worth creating, from planning out steps of your ideas of an activist art to eventually getting down to business to actually creating by hand. The process of making activist art takes a lot of time and patience in communities. Most of all it takes persistence and dedication to fully finish art that symbolizes a cause that needs more attention.
2. "Once we can see our ideas on paper, we can better evaluate them."
I personally think that writing down your ideas first is quite a helpful method to use. It gives artist more time to think about how it will look in real life compared to how artist imagine it in their heads. You become your own judge of your own mind and start to think if the idea you wrote down will work or not at all.
3. Sketching requires experimentation and exploration, but sometimes, in our hurry to move on and "Do It!" we rush through the sketch process by grasping at the first sign of success"
Sketching out your ideas can be bit of a hassle but it gives activist artists the greatest form of creativity when making art. Sketching can bring so much life an idea you had in your head and make it into a reality. Speed in my opinion is up to everybody whose sketching, they know their limit and they know how fast they want their ideas to be done.
Toward a Curatorial Activism
1. "On investigating, price differentials, and sex-race ratios in galleries, within thematic and national exhibitions, and in press, the numbers demonstrate that the fight for equality is far from over."
It just goes to prove that some gallery curators don't want to acknowledge the works of ethnic, black, and female artists. It's definitely become a problem within the art community in most museums. These are one of the reasons why activism art exists in the first place to everyone know of the situation female/black/ethnic artists are facing.
2. "White people buy it, white people say what's good, what's bad. They sit in judgement"
Some gallery curators have always put most of their attention of praising only white artists. Constantly viewing white artists as the better and important figures in the gallery while dismissing other gorgeous art created by non-white artists. It's still a major problem to this day and hopefully non-white artists will put an end to this discrimination letting everyone hear their voices.
What is Curatorial Activism
1. "We are living and working in an art world that cares little about racism and sexism."
As I said this before, the art community can be extremely stuck up with they represent themselves with only showcasing work by white male artists. They often view how female artists don't live up to the same level of creativity as men. The same goes for colored artists with how most curators are biased with their decisions of letting artist hang up their own work for everyone to see.
2. "Curators could begin by asking themselves: What are my biases? Am I excluding large constituencies of people in my selections? Have I favored males artists over female, white over black-and why have I done so?"
This is something curators really need to ask themselves that if this is even worth ignoring great talent from many colored and female artists in the world. There is never a selection of good artists whether they are white and male. Curators have to realize that perhaps they were rather racist and sexist of neglecting some works of art and skill that happens to be more incredible and creative than most White male art that are presented.
What is Curatorial Activism?
Curatorial Activism is considered curating and exhibiting a collection of art that doesn't fit the status quo mostly exhibiting art created by female/colored artists.
What can we do to improve art and art history?
By improving art and it's history is by making a gallery that focuses more on the intended theme of history in most museums or perhaps on a website where users can go to a section of the art museum that they want to see.
How can exhibitions be activists?
It focuses of the freedom of artists that want to present their inner struggles of society that frustrates them. Letting all their aggression towards the norm into a piece of art that everyone can witness the emotion behind it.
What messages can they tell in their theme or inclusion of artwork?
Messages that artists can tell in their theme is to keep fighting back no matter what and never giving up on hope of making it as an artist whether your colored or female. All they want is to show off their talents to everybody while resisting society that keeps them down.
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