Part 1: Art, Media, and Persuasion

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Activity 1A.1: Looking at Art and Media as Catalysts for Change
 
Murals and Billboards that Address Social Issues
500 Anos de Resistencia, mural detail, 1992–93, by Muralist Isaias Mata (El Salvador)
 
Diego Rivera
 
Hope Is Vital! African AIDS Response
 
Seeds of Peace
 
Unchain the Women Directors!, 2006. Guerilla Girls, Inc.
Accompanying article:
 
We Sell Guns!, 2008. Stop Handgun Violence
 
Posters that Address Social Issues
Art for Social Justice by Ricardo Levins Morales
 
Current Street Art Workers posters
 
Cycle of Cooperation
 
Sun Mad, 1982, by Ester Hernández
 
Taller Tupac Amaru posters
 
The Movimiento, 1972, by Sergio Hernandez
 
PSAs and Media Campaigns that Address Social Issues
 
 
The Coen Brothers Do Clean Coal by Tom Zeller Jr. The New York Times, Energy and the Environment
 
Product Red
 
Reading Rockets PSAs
 
The Red Flag Campaign
 
Rock the Vote
 
 
Art and Media Works Referenced in Handout 1: Unit 6 Overview
AIDS Memorial Quilt, 1987–ongoing. Conceived by Cleve Jones, contributed to by communities worldwide
 
Eyes on the Prize, 1987, images, video, and news clippings from the PBS-produced documentary
 
Social Design Notes, information about the Silence=Death campaign
 
The Third of May 1808, 1814, by Francisco Goya
 
Activity 1A.2: An Ideal World
 
Artwork that Depicts an Ideal World
 
Bake Sale, 1979. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
 
Cycle of Cooperation, 2005, by Ricardo Levins Morales