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The Art of Climate Change: Art Education for Global Citizenry

The Art of Climate Change: Art Education for Global Citizenry
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Author(s): Cathy Smilan (University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 18
Source title: Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ryan Shin (University of Arizona, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1665-1.ch006

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Abstract

A multi-faceted assignment in a course, Feminist Perspectives of Craft, guided students to investigate the thesis that global warming and climate change are feminist concerns using research, debate, studio inquiry and critique. After team debates, students created individual art pieces; the criteria were that the piece must articulate some aspect of the implications of climate change, human interaction with and responsibility for the environment, and include one or more aspects of the textile techniques that we were exploring in class. Living in a New England coastal community built upon fiber craft, textile and seafaring industry, these elements guided visual art exploration and lesson planning questioning how human interaction with the environment sustains the economy and how societies, in turn, must sustain our earth that provides for the community. Critiques of process and final artwork informed lesson planning about how decisions have far reaching impact extending to the global community.

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