To do this work, The People’s WPA will select a group of collaborators to support in a 6 month process. Our work will be organized around the themes of HEALING, NOURISHMENT, LIBERATION, REGENERATION, REMEMBERING, TRUTH TELLING, and DEEPENING DEMOCRACY, understanding these as vital ways in which community-based artists and cultural workers are steadfastly working to repair society and move us all into a more sustainable and enriching future.
Artistic and Process Statement: Claudia Alick’s “Vader Thanksgiving” started with a desire to make a video that juxtaposed fascistic imagery with wholesome family centric imagery. It was Thanksgiving and Claudia was thinking about the evil origins of the holiday. She took traditional pilgrim imagery and generated images from it only choosing the most disturbing versions. She asked the platform to produce Darth Vader in a variety of idyllic of Thanksgiving Day themed scenes. After editing the images she added music from the Star Wars Holiday Special with Carrie Fisher.
Claudia Alick’s “Black Superwoman” began as an exercise and became something more than the concept. The blends of vibrant colors, diversity of Black femme faces and choices of texture all carry powerful messages. I chose bright colors like red, white, and blue, and expanded by adding oranges and purple. It was meant to reference patriotic pallets as well as african-american styles and feminine iconography. In the art, there are lots of different hairstyles and head coverings that Black women wear.
Small Town Stormtroopers was created by Claudia lick. She was inspired by fascists imagery and beautiful things she pulled from growing up in a predominantly white small town. Many people have an idolized vision of police in their communities. This is satirical and meant to conjure the ridiculous. We laugh to keep from crying.
VR, AR and spatial audio present significant access frictions and barriers for disabled users and creators; as such, this lab seeks to generate collective/participatory access
The National Theater Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts is delighted to announce the 2022 National Theater Project Regional Convening in New England. Regional convenings are part of NEFA’s effort towards understanding the theatremaking ecology across the nation, with past locations including in Jackson, MS; Phoenix, AZ; Minneapolis/St Paul, MN; and Knoxville, TN. We are excited to resume this practice here with our local community in a hybrid three-day event.
Amazing and powerful conversation on technology and communications and the future of arts! The Calling Up Justice practice watched this with a live audience and afterwards discussed our digital and transmedia work.
Claudia Alick’s “Black Superwoman” began as an exercise and became something more than the concept. The blends of vibrant colors, diversity of Black femme faces and choices of texture all carry powerful messages. I chose bright colors like red, white, and blue, and expanded by adding oranges and purple. It was meant to reference patriotic pallets as well as african-american styles and feminine iconography. In the art, there are lots of different hairstyles and head coverings that Black women wear.
To be more effective, diversity training workshops need to be designed in a way that is more interactive, participatory, and focused on addressing systemic issues. By taking a more holistic and inclusive approach, it may be possible to create more meaningful and effective diversity training workshops that can help to create more equitable and inclusive workplaces. Ultimately diversity trainings are part of the EDI industrial complex. It is rehabilitating a system that some believe need to be dismantled.
Claudia Alick’s “Black Woman Walking” was her first animation. She knew that she wanted to have a black woman walking and changing into different Black women. Claudia Alick’s piece is an invitation to contemplate the Black Woman Walking and choose one that speaks to you.
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