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DARA BIRNBAUM

This woman is most famously know for her video of wonder woman. She chooses to do most of her work with the mass media images that hint at the mythologies of the culture and history. Dara was one of the first artist to create an video with an imagery from mainstream television. This video was one of the first to be so realistic in this genera and Dara helped pave the way for following artists.

Sometimes kids are dealt a hard hand in life and end up doing things that get them in trouble and send to Juvenile Detention. Rosana Palazyan is an artist who works with these kids to try and help them with their story. She asks the kids questions that will help paint a story in her mind and then she creates it in her artwork. She also has the kids paint and create their own interpretation of their lives. This process of art making is quite beautiful. To transform a story that is hard to tell into something that is tangible I can only imagine is extremely powerful. The kids are quite blessed to be given therapy with an artist like Rosana.

THE WOMAN HOUSE PROJECT 1970

This group of powerful women felt like their voices needed to be head. At his point in time women, gays, and blacks were being miss represented in the art museums, so this group decided this needed to change. Women were artists, gays were artists, and so were blacks. To take a stand there was a group of women who came together and created an art gallery filled with with artwork done by female artists. The fist day that the museum was open only females were allowed to attend. Oddly enough museums found that on the first day the artwork had a greater reaction to then the following days. 

Develop (project, making, created, idea):

Long Beach helped me get a grasp as to what I wanted to do with my career. People that were involved were my mom and my grandma. The setting helped as well because it was a sales area.

I chose to knit slippers out of wool and felt them down. They were green and gray made for a special someone. This allowed me to be creative for someone I love. I was able to create this because a sheep had its coat shorn off and a spinner spin and clean the wool so it was clean enough to work with. 

I cooked a meal of stake, potatoes, and veggies to maintain my health. The people that helped me with this were the people who grew the food, the people who harvested it, shipped it, and sold it at the store. 

Maintain (relationship, sleep, clean):

I chose to exercise as many days this week that I could so I can keep my body healthy and fit. This helps my mind to have more clarity and feel more at ease. 

I was there for a friend because they were having a hard week and felt as though everything was crashing down on them all at once. 

Daniel Joseph Martinez was one of the artist who's work participated with the Invented Community (temporary). The Idea behind all of these project was to bring the community closer together. Martinez chose to not do his work in densely populated areas or areas that were economically sound, but more so he brought his art into communities that were not sustained in hopes to bring some of the community from the surrounding areas to that place to raise awareness. This was most always accomplished by his projects. People from the city would venture into the streets less traveled on to visit his art exhibits. 

After being in a term of Art Culture Through Politics my eyes were opened to countless different kinds of art forms. I am curious to see what genera people enjoyed the most. So what genera was your favorite that we discussed?