Comments on: Artist Bloc Day of Politics, Action, and Art

By: Adrienne Skye Roberts

Adrienne Skye Roberts — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:31:04 +0000

Addendum: 4:15 : Speaker’s Address Jeff Change and Favianna Rodriguez

By: Adrienne Skye Roberts

Adrienne Skye Roberts — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:55:54 +0000

THE SCHEDULE FOR THE ARTIST BLOC:

12:15 : Welcome
12:20 : Speaker’s Address : Julia Bryan-Wilson
12:45 : Speaker’s Address : Melanie Cervantes

1:00 – 4:00 : Ongoing Workshops : Crocheting, Banner-making, Screen-printing, Speaker’s Booth Video Interviews, Kid’s Zone, Class War Store by Art for Democratic Society

1:30 – 2:00 : Workshop : The Art State We’re In, Dialogues on Challenges of Living and Creating in the Bay Area and California. Facilitated by Paulina Nowicka

2:00 – 2:30 : Workshop : General Education about the Occupy Movement for Artists. What’s our place in this movement? What systems of oppression affect the 99%? Facilitated by Adrienne Skye Roberts

Break

3:00 – 4:00 : Workshop : Pictures Make Change, Visual Brainstorming with the Beehive Design Collective. A collaborative drawing jam for artists to draw ourselves into the 99%. Facilitated by Zeph Fishlyn

4:15 : Speaker’s Address : Jeff Chang

By: Chris Cobb

Chris Cobb — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:00:22 +0000

It seems like nobody stands up for art classes for kids in public schools. Or the lack of intellectual property artists are allowed to retain while in virtually any other industry they can sue over intellectual property rights. Don’t even get me started about all those endless art auctions….all good stuff to bring up…