PROJECT PROPOSAL// HUMAN RIGHTS// IMMIGRATION

       

        My topic is on human rights. Human rights can range from police violence in Brazil to innocent people being murdered in Syria. What I am going to put a focus on and raise awareness for is the rights of immigrants here in the United States. There has been a lot of discrimination in the U.S towards immigrants, now more than ever. One issue that really got me and a lot of other people angry was the incarceration of migrant kids at some warehouse/”tent city” that very much resembles a cage. These little kids were taken from their families for weeks and were kept secluded in cages like if they were animals. Other activities, such as people being stopped on the streets simply because of the way they look is extremely discriminatory and inhumane.

         With most public attention around immigration focused on Trump’s administration efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, the scope of a series of actions restricting legal entry to the country has gone unnoticed for the most part. Without need for congressional approval, the administration has initiated several actions through regulations, administrative guidelines, and immigration application processing changes. Taken together, these steps have dramatically slowed down family and employment-based immigration, decreased refugee admissions to their lowest numbers in decades, tightened who can receive the most common temporary work visa, and restricted naturalization for immigrants serving in the U.S. military.

           My plan is to run my podcast once or twice a week. I will be keeping up with current immigration events, new laws, inhumane ICE acts, and things of that matter. I also plan on interviewing people, whether they have stories of friends/family who have been discriminated against, or personal discriminatory experiences. I am going to try really hard to get an interview with some of the “inspirational people” that I have listed.

         My first podcast will take place next Saturday. I will be introducing who I am, talk a little about myself, my family, and our background. I will also be talking about current events, for example just this week we heard some more ignorance come out of our president’s mouth. Trump announced his plan to circumvent Congress to revoke the 150-year-old birthright law in an interview with Axios on HBO that is slated to air Sunday 11/04/18. https://youtu.be/H0d21nQBY8o

         The goal of my podcast is to raise awareness. I am working towards change. I want people to get inspired; I want people to pick up their phones and call the lawmakers because of the facts that I’m preaching. I want people to take action, not take their headphones off and continue working their 9-5 job after they listen to my podcast.

      I have also created a twitter account, where I will be trying to raise awareness but at the same time promote my podcast. I will use many hashtags, such as #AbolishICE and #EndFamilyDetention, etc., which should bring attention to my page from the right people. I will be retweeting many tweets of other activists and people who care for this topic.  I think Twitter is a great platform, where I can reach a pretty large audience. A lot of the people who’s work I’ve looked into are huge on twitter. They use twitter to express how they feel, to send messages out to the community, to promote protests, to retweet important current events, and overall to keep their audience in the loop.

        The first person who’s worked I’ve looked into is Erika Andiola, she has a huge twitter presence. “Proud, undocumented and unafraid” is her bio, Andiola is that of a woman who knows what it means to speak truth to power. In addition to sharing important updates on organizing taking place across the nation, Adiola is a passionate advocate for abolishing of ICE.

          Another is Juan Escalante. Escalante is communications director for the immigrant rights group America's Voice. In addition to providing his twitter followers with major news updates, Escalante shares personal stories about his life as an undocumented immigrant in the United States. His tweets shed light on the mental health consequences of living in a country where you’re told you’re not wanted.  (I HAVE A PENDING INTERVIEW WITH JUAN IN THE UPCOMING WEEKS) 

        Cristina Jimenez Cofounder and executive director of United We Dream, Jimenez is a veteran community organizer based in New York City and originally from Ecuador. In addition to running the immigrant youth network, Jimenez tweets frequently about upcoming protests. 

        Gaby Pacheco is a nationally recognized immigrant rights activist. She is the author of the New York Times op-ed "What the Dreamers Can Teach the Parkland Kids" and tweets frequently about the  experiences of undocumented families living in the U.S.

       Also, A podcast that I’ve been looking into and using as a guideline is- The Hum// A human rights podcast. This podcast talks about human rights, but more specific, it talks about racism. The young lady, Syrus Marcus talks about current issues, her own experiences, and interviews many people.

LINK TO MY POWERPOINT-  Immigration

References

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/ceci-nest-pas-une-cage/563072/

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/even-congress-remains-sidelines-trump-administration-slows-legal-immigration

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/30/662043904/trump-says-he-will-void-birthright-citizenship-law-through-executive-order

https://mashable.com/article/immigration-migrant-rights-who-to-follow-on-twitter-social-media/#EXG0Jhbckaqo

@RodriguezKevinB

Midterm Proposal: Body Image and Media

Karina Cardenas
Midterm Proposal
10/31/2018

Body Image and Media

    It is common in our country for women to have issues with their bodies and for women to feel the need to change their bodies to reach some standard. Body image is a component of self-esteem, it is how an individual thinks and feels about their bodies. Overt time, the issue of negative body image has grown and this rise in negative body image issues correlates with the rise in the amount of media and advertisement tat portray an unrealistic idea of a woman's body. However, the root of the body image problems can be traced back to one's teen years. There are more teenagers on social media than ever before, according to Common Sense Media, " Teens are spending more than one-third of their days using media such as online video or music-nearly nine hours on average". Movies, television shows, commercials, magazines, toys such as Barbies, and websites all portray an unrealistic picture of female and transmit the message that being " beautiful is the ultimate goal in life. As Media and advertising grow alone with industries like beauty and fashion, the issue on negative body image will continue unless addressed. This is a big problem in our society and can lead to depression, social anxiety and eating disorders in young teen girls which can be life threatening. This is why we must take action now, this project is essential is raising self-awareness and is a great advantage because it will help individuals create a clear perception of their personalities, which includes their strength, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotion.

Plan of Action

        By raising awareness and putting together our voices, the perspective on beauty can be changed for all women, girls, and even men. I will be creating a piece of art that stands up to negative body image issues that we face and create a complimentary piece which symbolizes body diversity and acceptance. These two pieces will speak to every individual on the forms of advertising. I will be publishing it on social media, Instagram, which will have other artists and body positive activist in influenced my idea. The work that these artists have done over the years will show support to a whole community and teach young girls to love their bodies for what they are while spreading the word of body acceptance.

• Taryn Brumfit

                She is an Australian writer and film director who created the film documentary, Embrace. It is a film documentary on a journey of many women finding self-acceptance of their body. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISHzzBGyt4g

Another very important activist artist that inspired me is,

•  Jean Killbourne. 

She is a filmmaker who is internationally known for her work on the image of women in media. One of her well known work is, Killing us Softly. 

https://www.jeankilbourne.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9T-jEzp3A&t=263s

• Ashley Graham

She is a Plus size model who uses her platform to impact the lives of women and young girls in learning to love themselves. She has been on multiple talk shows, magazines, interviews, here is one of my favorite that inspired me. "Plus Size? More like my size?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAgawjzimjc

I will interview girls, young women, and older women who have experienced the pressure of bodily perfection, particularly women who have gone through this social pressure and have had courage to overcome it and love their body for themselves! These interviews will all be included in a short videos on the effects of media and advertising on self-image from a women's perspective. I will also have a few other things like a FAQ, which functions as a a support amongst teen girls of all class, race and ages that come across my site. Since media is not going to stop growing anytime soon, I hope that teen girls can use the space I created to help change their perspective on the way beauty is viewed, word on body positive will continue to be negative issues for many teens in this country. Essentially, this project is important due to the amount of women that are constantly body shamed by media and advertisement and for the teen girls who feel pressured they have to go on diets in order to keep up with the cover girl standard. 

         

      My goal is the challenge the ideal body form ad bring awareness to its negative consequences in our society. I plan to create a piece of art that will raise awareness to the problem of ideal body image. I plan to convince my audience to promote body positive and be aware of media literary. Both pieces of work will be created to raise awareness to all teen girls who are suffering from bod image issues and will put together on the page.

• To challenge the way you think about current standard of beauty and fitness
• To expand your understanding of the link between current body ideal and the media the forces that shape 
• To get information and assistance with balanced nutrition and eating disorders
• To have your say on issues of body image and standards of beauty and fitness
• To start down the path to a positive body image. 

To finish off, beauty is much more than the surface of our skin. Meaning, beauty goes beyond what we wear or how we look. In today's society body image  has taken over personalities and increased the number of narcissistic people. Body shaming has led many women to feel ashamed of themselves and their bodies. My goal is to create self-awareness, Body shamming has led many women to feel ashamed of themselves and their bodies. My goal is to create self-awareness, these girls and boys need to focus on the present, be active, and become self-aware. My self awareness project is great advantage because it helps individuals create a clear perception of their personalities, which includes their strength, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. Improving individual's emotional stability helps them feel stronger and motivates them during their day to day activities.

Please check these two artist that inspired my idea further more.

Juliana Lyons- a filmmaker college student who created this video to promote confidence and self-love.

https://www.youtube.com/Nicole Clarkwatch?v=fSVTRHU28ng

Nicole Clark- Creator of Cover Girl Culture, it is her documentary and her website made to help bring about positive change in the media. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDXDLnxk8Ew&t=94s

https://covergirlculture.com/

https://prezi.com/view/XBV4fnhC61crpvYKCuHx/

Project Proposal

You've been told your whole life that college is one of the biggest investments of your lifetime. The decisions you make today will affect you for the rest of your life, whether you decide to go or not. Most people take out student loans in order to attend the college of their choice and don't realize that they have to start paying it back as soon as they graduate. In reality the national student loan debt is at $1.5 trillion dollars which means there's a lot of graduates who don't have good paying jobs that can actually pay back these loans. Back in the day one would be able to pay for college with a summer job. It is almost impossible to make student debt disappear even if you go bankrupt. Student debt is a different type of debt that can pass on to others and if you miss nine payments after graduation the federal government can confiscate wages, tax refunds, and even social security checks until the loan is repaid.  

My project idea for this semester is to talk about the issue of college tuition and student loans. I plan on proposing evidence by doing interviews on several different people and their experiences past, present, and future. By this I mean I will interview people who couldn't go to their dream college because of financial reasons, present people who are currently taking out thousands of dollars in loans, and finally I will interview a couple of graduates with student loan debts. The reason I chose this topic because it currently affects a lot of people. I plan on also doing different types of graphs and charts showing the statistics of loan debts and how many people can actually pay it off after graduating. Are huge loans really worth it after graduating? Who benefits from this? Is college an investment or business? Why does the U.S. spend more money on the army instead of our educational system. These are some of the few questions that I plan on targeting.

One advocate for free education that I chose to do research on is Bernie Sanders.

*Germany eliminated tuition because they believed that charging students $1,300 per year was discouraging Germans from going to college. Chile will do the same. Finland, Norway, Sweden and many other countries around the world also offer free college to all of their citizens. If other countries can take this action, so can the United States of America.*


*Over the next decade, it has been estimated that the federal government will make a profit of over $110 billion on student loan programs. This is morally wrong and it is bad economics. *

https://youtu.be/KXv67jhWnaI

Valerie Moore Proposal Written

Project proposal
The topic for my presentation is the need for parents to vaccinate their children. I have always felt like vaccinating children was always an important step, but recently I feel a need to take this issue to the public, as celebrities announce openly that they with to deny their children life saving vaccines. Most notably, or to me most enraging, was Kat Von D’s announcement that she would not vaccinate her soon to arrive son. Kat announced in her June 7th Instagram post that she would be having a, “natural, drug-free home birth in water with a midwife and doula (she also) has the intention of raising a vegan child, without vaccinations” (@TheKatVonD, Via Instagram). This really bothered me, as almost all of the other items she mentioned are safe and accepted, or the child could decide to end (veganism); but the decision to prevent the vaccination of her child is one that may kill them. When asked to create a confrontational response to any issue, I knew the uneducated denial of vaccination was certainly the issue I would like to discuss. People such as Kat Von D deny their children vaccinations for several reasons. Most popularly is the idea that they should not introduce outside objects to the immune systems of their children. The second runner up seems to be the idea that these vaccinations will cause issues such as Down Syndrome (a disease that is caused by an in vitro genetic material separation issue, not the introduction of vaccines). People deny their children vaccinations because they are uninformed. As such, I wish to create a poignant piece of art, one that will create a need for people to look into the issue, and discover what really is best for not only their own children, but for the children of others as well.
As a preface, I feel a need to say that some people have seen the conceptualization of my piece as very… morbid. I wish to create an image of a skeletal baby, residing in a cradle. Hanging above, with the baby reaching towards it, will be a mobile of syringes. In the background, there will be a larger skeleton, easily presumed as the parent of this poor child. The parent skeleton will be reaching over to the mobile, severing the ties of the syringes to the mobile. This act will effectively represent the removal of the assistance the vaccinations would have provided the life of this child; effectively deeming the child as dead, as the skeletal form it takes in the image represents. Initially, I wished to make the parent human, in order to make the piece much more easier for an unknowing audience to understand what transpires within it. However, the more I thought about it, the more agender and without race or age I wanted the “parent” to be. I wanted those that interact with my piece to be able to see that any of us could become “the monster” causing death and societal destruction. In regards to my ideas of implementation, or sharing, of my work, I plan to meet with the directors of New Jersey City University’s art galleries, so I may request them to display my work. As a science student, I am also considering asking the Biology department if they would like to display the piece as well, considering it is heavily influenced by my own understanding of science. As far as interaction with my piece is concerned, I am certain this work will resonate within viewers. The morbidly blunt overtones are sure to make you think about how lucky we are to live in a time where modern medicine is well developed.
Although I am studying biology, I am also studying secondary education. I plan to attend Montclair’s Speech Therapy graduate program, in order to align myself with the capability to become a school speech therapist. As such, I do not see my creation having very much of a bearing on my future career path. However, it will certainly impact my understanding of the issue, as well as my ability to discuss this topic in my everyday life. I have gained a lot of new insight supporting the stance I hold. I most definitely can better support my ideas now that I have done the work to research why people should be vaccinating their children. The risk unvaccinated children pose to those that have undergone inoculations is also a point I did not fully understand, but now have a clear idea about.
Many art pieces have been made to create a similar protest against this issue. My favorite amongst them is the photography work of Alexa Sinclair. “Set in an 18th century English doctor’s surgery… (the) portrait features Dr. Edward Jenner inoculating James Phipps. (The young man would become) the first person to receive the smallpox vaccine. Dr. Jenner’s… work led to the eradication of smallpox in 1980… The aristocratic woman in the center represents how smallpox did not discriminate, affecting the rich and poor alike. The many flowers throughout the piece symbolize the global impact of smallpox” (“Bill Gates”). This piece is important because it shows the moment in which we learned diseases which caused many early childhood deaths could be vaccinated against in order to improve quality of life. I want to convey a similar sentiment with my own piece; that our modern society improved quality of life is founded on the vaccination of our children.

 

Other Works that Impacted my ideas, that share a similar goal (see powerpoint)

Works Cited:
“Bill Gates Commissions Pro-Vaccine Artworks to Remind Us Why Immunization Is Important.” ZME Science, 27 Feb. 2015, ww.zmescience.com/medicine/bill-gates-vaccine-artwork-042423/.

Midterm proposal

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1662viY8GLf0ZeYWHKbUp7ryJRFJZ4ocFljkPhfT47mEhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1DwegJC9m3ppMtLh8QcIR_SlIFNYbv-NWRy08nZLtaYM


Pollution/ Climate Change

Pollution has been an ongoing issue in the world for decades and has only seemed to worsen over time. Pollution is the introduction of harmful substances into the Earth either resulting in air pollution or water pollution. These damages doesn’t only affect the Earth but it affects us as well, it can cause severe health problems such as lung cancer, asthma, bronchitis, and a shortened life span. There are many types of pollution ranging from, air pollution, water pollution and land pollution. Air pollution is associated with the contamination of air in the atmosphere that’s important to all living creatures and a necessity to sustain life. Water pollution is the addition of harmful substances to water ranging from chemical, biological and physical materials that worsen the quality of the water which eventually renders it unusable. Land pollution is the destruction of the Earth’s land surface caused by humans, includes dumping of waste and littering. I believe that there could be more done to help reduce pollution and eventually reverse the damage that has been done to the planet. Climate change is also a result of pollution, it is most often defined by a change in weather patterns at unusual periods of time either lasting for too long or not long enough. I believe there are many more actions that could be put in motion to help bring awareness to it. For starters, I believe climate change and pollution should be taught more in schools, what better way to secure the Earth's future than educating the children of tomorrow on how to maintain it.



“Students for Change” is intended to be a class for students of all ages that teaches them the importance of pollution and climate change.   Teaching students to be socially and environmentally aware is something that some schools lack or don’t have at all. Growing up and in my experience of attending public school, the emphasis on it wasn’t a topic teachers focused on or went into detail. Being a criminal justice major, my goal is to not only have said classes but after school activities for underprivileged students and students have a history of delinquency. This can be an outlet for many students who exhibit delinquency to direct their energy and time into something beneficial and fun. A better way of teaching children or students in general is visually, by implementing the study of environmental artists and their work can be a great way. Several artists like Olga Mercedes, Claude Monet, Chris Jordan, Edith Meusnier, and Nils Udo can inspire students and hopefully encourage them to make a difference whether it’s creatively or not. Olga Mercedes Bautista’s main Interests is  re- appropriating nature, it consists in creating new forms by bending organic debris with plastic. A blending process is obtained by bonding layers of the tree bark together.

Midterm Proposal

Rosabi Pena Garcia
Midterm Proposal
Prof. Cacolio
10/31/18

Racism in Ivy Leagues

Racism has been imbedded into America's history for centuries. It roots all the way back to the discovering of America. The natives were thrown off their own land, abused, raped, and murdered because of the fact they look different from the settlers. Racism only grew further from that point on. Africans were captured and sold as slaves; most of them not surviving the journey to their final destination. Fast foward to today and racism isn't as showcased as it was back then. Racism has been structured in a way that is discrete to those who aren't affect by it. While affecting the lives of those who are colored. It has made its way into politics, education, and the justice system. This is called Institutionalized Racism, it has made racism in certain cases legal and unseen by the population. Greatly affecting the minds of african american and hispanics. Racism in the education system is what I will be focusing on; shining a light on ivy leagues. 

Ivy leagues eventually become a dream of any student wanting to pursue their education as a professional. It is almost a title you earn as you get accepted into these schools. People are able to see the school's name and see that you are a dedicated to what you want. Ever since my sister has entered Columbia University, I have realized a great disparity in race. I always knew that ivy leagues had issues in the past with enrolling students of color. I thought that it has changed, especially since ivy leagues have to meet a quota. Meaning schools are mandated to accept a certain amount of a specific race to satisfy the schools requirements. So it should not be a surprise that getting racial minorities onto campus would be a priority. At Harvard, 11.8% of admitted freshman are African American – an almost identical percentage as last year’s entering class, and the previous year’s. Hispanic students also comprise a consistent 11.8%, year after year.

I have chosen this project on behalf of my sister and all of the colored students trying to pursue their education and reach their dream. Many people are so used to seeing white male politicians, white male engineers, white male judges, and white male presidents. This is not what makes up America, we are a melting pot and reflect so many different beautiful cultures/races. Ivy league schools shouldn't shun students because of their background. They should judge students on their potential and what they are capable of making. Because ultimately you want that student to become a leader or an innovator and every school would love to have their name on their resume. I want to show students of color that it is possible to get into an Ivy league. 

To share this exact message, I would like to conduct interviews of colored students at Columbia University. I want to be able to create a video, filming students while they talk about their experience. I'm not super confident in displaying it through video because I don't know anyone in film that could help me shoot and edit. So as alternative, I wanted to take a single photo of the student I'm interviewing and caption it below, just like @humansofny has it set up. In between photos I can display different artworks and statistics on this topic. I want to set up a tumblr page so I can setup different voice clips of students and quotes from influential leaders/artists.

Class System is a painting on the privitization of primary education. By: Michael D'Antuono

The history of institutional racism in public schools. By: Susan Dufresne

J. Cole speaks out about racism and kids growing up in low-income families trying to make something out of themselves but the color of their skin holds them back. 

"The Library" by Jacob Lawerence represents the struggles of young african americans trying to receive an education.

Reference

• https://www.thenation.com/article/for-students-of-color-ivy-league-schools-have-a-long-way-to-go/
• https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/17/author-discusses-how-racism-perpetuated-elite-colleges
• https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-campus-racism-could-affect-black-students-college_us_59ef6e5fe4b00a4ce5a221d4
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevecohen/2015/07/06/the-secret-quotas-in-college-admissions/#32ce8cdbb736
• https://artandresponse.com/paintings/class-system/class-system_ar/

Midterm Project: Street Harassment

Street Harassment, what is it? It's any unwanted comments, gestures, and actions forced on a stranger in public without their consent. This includes anything from unwanted whistling to homophobic or transphobic slurs. People are harassed for several reasons, some being, race, religion, gender, or how a lot of people like to refer it, "the way they are dressed." Unfortunately, everyone at some point in their lives have or will experience some sort of street harassment. The biggest victims to street harassment are woman. Which is where I want to focus.

I work in the mall, at American Eagle, a fairly popular store known for their jeans. Due to its popularity, a lot of different personalities come into the store. As an employee, my job is to help the customers. In many occasions, I have found myself in situations that a customer says or does something unwanted that makes me feel uncomfortable. For instance, a couple months ago, I was helping out a male customer, around the age of 30-35. This man was asking for assistance in styles of jeans as well as color. As I was helping him, I placed a pair of jeans in between my legs, to free my hands so that I can grab another style. When doing so the customer said "Damn Ma, I wish it was me in between those thighs instead of those jeans." This was one of my first occurrences working there, I was surprised and in shock and simply walked away. That was when he said "It was a joke, you can't take a compliment?"

That situation inspired my project. Women everywhere are harassed in similar ways, sometimes worse and because of society, we are taught to just take it. That is why I created an Instagram account  named "not just a compliment" as a response to the customer that told me that I couldn't take a compliment, when clearly his comment was disrespectful and a way to insinuate his intentions with me. With this Instagram account I look forward to highlighting situations like this and raise awareness about street harassment. I want woman to realize that we do not have to take that kind of behavior form anyone especially men. I want to create this area where woman are able to share their experiences and have an open conversation with other woman that have gone through similar situations.

 

Situations like these, make woman hide from the streets. From personal experience, ever since situations like these, i have been more cautious about helping men at my job. I sometimes dread having to talk to customers because of that reason. No woman should feel that way, that is a human rights issue. It prevents women from being in public. A survey in the UK found that four in ten women felt at risk of harassment on the city streets. This happens everywhere, and we must put a stop to this.


Artist:

1. Tatyana Fazlalizadeh: "Stop Telling Women to Smile"

"The project consists of a series of portraits of women - women who I have sat talked with about their experiences with harassment. 

The portraits are designed into posters, including text that is inspired by the subject's experiences. And then I wheat paste. STWTS started in Brooklyn in the fall of 2012. It is an on-going, traveling series and will gradually include many cities and many women participants. 

Street harassment is a serious issue that affects women world wide. This project takes women’s voices, and faces, and puts them in the street - creating a bold presence for women in an environment where they are so often made to feel uncomfortable and unsafe."

2. Jenga Mwendo: "A multimedia art exhibit on catcalling"

Mwendo, created an exhibit to showcase catcalling.

"Walk of Shame" The artists built a hall with cloth walls onto which videos of men catcalling were projected.Another component was the Talking Heads. Mwendo interviewed men, women, and girls about street harassment, asking them all the same questions. Then she edited and compiled the video clips. The finished piece was a row of computers featuring each interviewee, synced so that when they played, it seemed like they were on a panel talking with one another.

3. Sarah VanDenbergh: "Hot Pussy is No Way to Say Hello"

"She created six life size silhouettes of men and placed them in Union Square on a Saturday from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Attached to the cutouts were signs that said: ‘I grope women on the train,’ ‘I objectify women’s bodies,’ ‘I masturbate on women on the train,’ ‘I make catcalls to women in the street,’ ‘I say crude comments to women on the L train,’ and ‘I expose myself to women almost everyday.’ She had sound boxes with mp3 players and portable speakers sitting in front of the silhouettes playing a loop of 109 crude things men say to women. These quotes were directly from the HollaBack NYC website and from her own experiences. They passed out cards that said, ‘Hot pussy is no way to say hello.” On the back of the cards it said, ‘Sexual harassment is a crime, from crude comments and threats to stalking and indecent exposure…if you see a perv holla back, take their picture and file a police report.’" 

4. Nuala Cabral: Experimental Film 


Cabral uses a video of different people to exemplify some of the voices heard when "walking home." the thoughts of woman and how they feel, when situations like these happen.

5.  Sophie Sandberg: @catcallsofNYC 


Sophie runs an instagram account where she showcases what men say. She uses chalkboard to draw on then streets of NYC.

References:

http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/about/what-is-street-harassment/

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/d3wdvk/tatyana-fazlalizadeh-stop-telling-women-to-smile-artist-to-help-fight-street-harassment-nyc

Mid-Term Proposal: self-image

Samantha Da Rocha

Mid-Term Proposal 

I wanted to make my subject about women in art and media, how women are portrayed in movies. I am making this project based on an artists work called 'Untitled Film Stills' by Cindy Sherman. Cindy Sherman is an artist who made her original work by putting herself into the role of stereotypes that women were portrayed as. She took on these characters and project not originally to raise awareness of anything, she wanted to explore the characters and their mindset. Like her, I want to put myself in the photography portrayed as different characters from movies. I originally went through my thought process with this project by recreating the original untitled film still photographs, but as I continued my research for different artists and different self-imagine/ self-portrait styles, I wanted to focus on bases some characters of movies that I've seen in my life, and made some kind of an impact on me. Some of these include "Scream I" (1996), "Carrie (1976), North Country (2005), Heathers (1989).

The message I'm trying to get across with this goes under self-image and representation, and how media can portray women. I begin planning and thinking about this project for my senior media film class, I've always been interested in self-portraits and having yourself in your own work. I originally wanted to do this project for my own personal growth, to help put myself on camera, taking on different characters. I feel it is very important to not stick with your everyday routine and not get to stuck in your own ways. I wanted to see if I put myself in these characters and took the photos if people close to me would see me in costume or see me being a stereotype, like the "dumb blonde in a horror movie". Not all of the characters I want to portray will have a certain stereotype but it's more focusing on how media can't just have a happy girl, she must always be pretty even when crying, mad, scared and even when she is just happy she is portrayed as some kind of intimate and sexual. 

I wanted to execute this project by making an online portfolio through Instagram so I would be able to spread it around to a larger audience. I want to take Instagram and do what a lot of post on Instagram but don't admit to it. Everyone posts a different type of them on Instagram, the pretty, sexy, adventurous part of them. I want to do that but in a really extreme and obvious way. There is no immediate audience I want to reach with this, I want to reach who I can reach. Hence why I will be focusing on Instagram, since most people have some sort of social media, using it would be a more effective way to show the photos

Links: 

- http://www.artnet.com/artists/nan-goldin/

-http://www.artnet.com/artists/barbara-kruger/

- http://www.traceyeminstudio.com/type/artworks/monoprint/

-http://www.bjp-online.com/2015/11/jo-spence-self-portraits/

- http://www.artnet.com/artists/claude-cahun/

Valerie Moore Project Proposal and Slides

Project Proposal

Proposal Slideshow

Semester Project

                  Underrepresentation of Minorities In Dance

I entered a dance studio in my town when I was seven years old and my studio consisted of mainly Hispanic and black individuals. I thought this was the norm in all of the dance studios around but I received a shocking surprise when I started to attend competitions. My dance studio would often be the only school that had minorities and the rest only consisted of white people and it did make me feel uncomfortable. I started developing a love for classical ballet and I trained really hard that I had the opportunity to audition for the American Ballet Summer Program when I was thirteen years old, within the first week of the program I noticed that I was the only Hispanic girl in the program along with another Latina girl and a black boy. We were outnumbered by the outstanding amount of white people in the program, and this should not be the case. This bothered me for quite awhile because it kept reoccurring  and now I have a pretty good idea as to why. Lets talk about money, in general minorities are either on the lower end of the economy or middle class but it is not common for them to be at the top 1%. The parents of the white students in other dance studios most likely have a better economic standing than the parents in my studio who were almost always struggling to pay the tuition on time and sometimes had to work two to three jobs to keep their daughters in the studio. Often times there were some girls who were not able to compete because their parents cant afford the cost of traveling to the competition or paying for costumes which are so expensive.
       The only reason I was able to attend the program is because I received a full scholarship, but if that was not the case my parents would never be able to afford it, and I would not have gone. There is also the problem of not hiring dancers to dance lead roles because they don't "fit" the image that the directors want. This is the reason why it is not common to see a black woman dancing the lead for Odile/Odette in Swan Lake, or seeing a Hispanic Woman dance the lead of the Sugar Plum fairy. There are many artists who have tried to break these norms like Alvin Ailey, Misty Copeland and Katherine Dunham. Alvin Ailey tried to include black dancers in his pieces because other dance companies would often reject them and he formed his own technique by incorporating classical ballet and contemporary. Misty Copeland is a professional ballet dancer with the New York City ballet and she danced many lead roles as a principal dancer that no other colored woman before her has done. Katherine Dunham is a world renowned dancer and choreographer who held the only black troupe of dancers at her time in the 1950's. She added her own African Cultural roots to her work and also incorporated Carribean Movement as well. For my project, I am going to choreograph my own piece called "Change" with other minority dancers with the incorporations of Alvin Ailey and Katherine Dunham technique.





Misty Copeland with James Whiteside during an American Ballet Theater performance of “Swan Lake.” Ms. Copeland reprises this role on June 15.CreditCreditJulieta Cervantes for The New York Times



https://youtu.be/sjqYqhWZmDI

Midterm Project: Incarceration and Art

Juelle Jackson

INCARCERATION

"Art Behind Prison Bars"

            My topic of choice is art and incarceration. With this topic, I bring awareness to the effects of incarceration and how art serves as a necessary escape. Also, I want to change the way prisoners are treated or viewed once they become just a face with a number as their new identity. These people are human and I think that showcasing their talents and gifts will allow people to see the softer side of these people. It will allow them to change their views. When one thinks of a prison and prisoners, the associations are usually negative ones. These prisoners are thought of as violent, scary, dangerous and/or a danger to society. When one goes to prison, they are stripped of everything that makes them who they are. They are no longer known by their name. A number becomes their new identity. It would appear that their lives or who they are does not matter. In most cases, they don't matter. They are simply a face with a number. People on the outside of prison walls feel this same way. Prisoners are dangerous, and unimportant once they choose their fate. They are invisible to the ones on the outside. I want to change this view and I want people to see that these prisoners are just like us. They are people. They are not unimportant or invisible. These people are misunderstood, and sadly, forgotten about. They aren't scary, and they are more than what people may think. In fact, they are significant and some of the most talented people ever. However, many do not know this.

            I will create a website that showcases the talent that these people posses. I will do this by putting poems and artwork created by the prisoners on the website. There will be a drop down menu that will be available to click and it will contain all the poems and artwork. All of which will be done by the prisoners. Also, on the site there will be a brief history of artists who have shined light on this very real concept of art behind prison bars and art as a means of escape from the circumstances surrounded by these prisoners. The site will have a personal story of why this topic is so near and dear to me. The purpose and reasoning behind choosing to do a website is because this is the only way that people will be able  to see with their own eyes, the gifts that these people have. I believe the art will show you the softness of the person who created the art, and it will teach you to feel something other than a negative feeling towards them. I believe the website is the only true way to really depict who they are and what they have to offer to the world. The website will show that they are not invisible, but rather invincible. The website will let people know that these prisoners have a voice and that I am just simply the one getting their voices out there for the world to hear, not directly, but through art.

             This topic is so important to me and close to my heart because I have a parent who is incarcerated. I have always exchanged poems and stories with my father through email and even in person. I have always been interested in this form of art and so has my father. When I visit him, I observe all the art that cover the prison walls. I asked him once who was it that created all of that beautiful art and he told me that it was the prisoners, his friends, who had made it. I thought to myself saying wow, these people are really talented. It is a real shame that they can’t show the world their art. It was then that I came to the conclusion that these prisoners are some of the most talented people I’ve ever met, but they got caught up in life. I want people to see this.  So, this project has been brewing for some time. I knew that I always wanted to be an advocate for prisoners because it affects me directly on the daily. My father is my best friend and I want people to see who he really is the best way I know how without the prison being the determining factor. I want people to see his talents and gifts. I want people to see that these prisoners are  people with an immense amount of talent. The world should see it. I am amazed at what I have come to realize about these people  and my perspective was changed when I was exposed to this art. I will forever be changed by what I have come to discover about these people.

             This project is something that I believe many people will appreciate because many people do not have an inside scoop on what is happening inside these prisons and within these people. I think that in this world where the incarcerated people are the most forgotten about, this project will show just how much they matter and how important they are to society. Also, it will show that they are more than a number and more than their prison sentence. With this website, I hope that I can change the perspective of people through this art and spark a change and a necessary conversation about those incarcerated. This project means so much to me.
         

The Prison Arts Coalition 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Jon Cashion’s “Seeing Within”

Untitled” by D. Ashton  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

“Lady Gaga” by Angelmont   

                      

 “Jail” by Carlos Contreras

                                                                                                                                                                                   

Thomas Whitaker’s “The Human Condition”

  Works Cited 

https://artzealous.com/art-behind-bars-the-talents-of-incarcerated-artists/


https://www.insideedition.com/prisoners-show-their-true-colors-through-art-who-i-really-am-45998

Midterm Proposal: Weekly Art Column

Michi Suazo 800-word proposal

 Artivist: women in art and activism

 Prior to being introduced to the Guerrilla Girls in class, I viewed a documentary film called Kusama:Infinity which is about Yayoi Kusama’s life, of her rise from shame to fame from living with a conservative family in Japan to becoming an influential artist worldwide. This later galvanized me to expand my knowledge on women artists. Upon learning that she struggled to find a gallery that would exhibit her work, and wrestling with racism as a Japanese artist and sexism as a woman artist in the art world, this made me question how many women and women of color in the art world that I knew or heard of. It prompted me to start discussing the representation of women in art with friends and family.


Surprisingly, my circle of friends and I came up with similar woman artists that consisted of Frida Kahlo, Betye Saar, and Kusama. That was it. We could only come up with three women artists that were well-known in the art world. We did not really know of anyone else. When I shifted gears and this time asked of famous men artists or just men artists that we knew, the discussion was more animated and lively--Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Cornell, Katsushika Hokusai, Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Michelangelo popped up in our minds. That being said, I connected the Kusama documentary, the lack of women artists my colleagues and I knew, and the activism the Guerrilla Girls do, to do my part in learning and expanding this pool of knowledge regarding women and women of color in art. However, I took it a step further. Being inspired by Kusama’s moxie, I want to highlight women artists whose work intertwines with activism.

A little bit of background about me, I have worked with the NJCU campus newspaper, the Gothic Times, for about three semesters now. I am the Features Editor and I enjoy doing profile articles (whether student or staff or even artist), gallery exhibits on campus, and sometimes film reviews. I have covered exhibitions by Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Shoshanna Weinberger, _gaia, and galleries that showcased art by NJCU alumni.

My work has given me social capital in this field and I have accumulated people such as Professor Midori Yoshimoto who I had as a teacher for her Contemporary Art class and Japanese Pop Culture and Art class, and who took us on a trip to MoMA; and also students who are media and art majors who have done or are doing internships for experienced artists (our Editor-in-Chief, Monica Sarmiento, is a Graphics Design major and is doing an internship with an artist named Cheryl R. Riley; our Arts and Entertainment editor, Maxine Antoine, is a media arts major; and our Sports editor, Kristen Hazzard is a Photography major). I think this will allow me to attain information and resources efficiently.

My Adviser has also voiced how she wants to venture out to a place called Mana Contemporary. So I already have prior knowledge and experience with writing for the newspaper and a propensity for the arts (I am an English major with a creative writing concentration). The Gothic Times has readership on campus with students and staff, and some even read us from different parts of the world. It has an online website where every issue is archived and put up online as downloadable PDFs; the Gothic Times also has a podcast, instagram, soundcloud, twitter, and facebook. These resources are ready to be used at my disposal--with the permission of my Adviser and Editor-in-Chief, of course.

 For my midterm project, I want to start a column in the Gothic Times which I want to call “Artivist: Women in art and activism”. This column will hold an article weekly that will be published either on the Gothic Times physical newspaper (this is circumstantial because the Gothic Times only publishes three times per semester and has a word limit) or the Gothic Times Website. The column will be a special feature about discovering, researching, and shining a spotlight on any woman artist I can find (not limited to the United States) from the time of Michelangelo (if I can) to the present. It will highlight details such as the struggles they faced in the art world, a brief summary of their childhood or defining parts of their lives that made them the person they were, their personal interests and what inspires their art, and what they do to partake in activism and why they are significant. Aside from Yayoi Kusama, some artists I am already thinking of featuring are Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Barbara Kruger, Betye Saar, the Guerrilla Girls, Mary Beth Edelson, Carolee Schneeman, Frida Kahlo, and Lynda Benglis.

Bibliography: https://www.theartstory.org/movement-feminist-art-artworks.htm#pnt_7

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/517139969688145088/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1893269/

http://wow.sportmax.com/en/?p=4863

Midterm Project-Gneder Stereotypes

Christina Bodine

Art 263: Activists, Interlopes, and Pranksters

Mid-term Project

 

Breaking Gender Stereotypes

 

            In today’s society, we are constantly being surround and also influenced by the stereotypes we see or hear regarding gender whether through the movies we watch, the books we read, and the conversations we have with those around us. According to research and working at a daycare, gender stereotype starts from infancy. Many young children are taught that if you are a boy, you should play with toy guns and not dolls; if you are a girl, you should play with a kitchen set. It is really an issue today and that is why my topic for this semester project is gender stereotypes and how we can come together to break those barriers.

            So last semester, I did a project for my empowering tools class. In the project, we had to make a trophy on a topic we want to see change and I chose—racial stereotype. That project really impacted me to the point where I want to expand on it in order to try to make a difference. I decided to narrow the topic to just gender simply because the topic of race is so broad for we have so many different cultures and people, it is really difficult to reach the minds and hearts of everyone. This project is giving me that opportunity to research and discuss further on this issue and that is why I chose this topic.

            The message I would like to send to the audience is that we can truly break the walls of these stereotypes is only if we start with ourselves especially as young adults. If we are parents, we want to teach our children that you do not have to be a certain gender in order to do certain things. If we are not, then we want to not put stereotypes on other people and judge them based on their gender.  Today, we have so many protest and movements that support gender equality such as feminism, right of the sexes, and etc. Just taking a notice and supporting against negative stereotypes, is what starts off turning into something huge and influential.

            In order to reach an audience, I wanted to off by taking small steps. Perhaps, engaging in general conversation with those around me and from there, build up the number of the audience. I would like to create a social media landform since majority of people already have social media, so that is a way to engage in a decent amount of an audience. I will create an Instagram page in order to help build that audience and also to make my project known. Another idea I had was to create a workshop based website, which can feature different topics such as what common gender stereotypes do we hear or see today, the history throughout generations that lead to these stereotypes, and lastly, but not least, what can we do as a community in order to help stop these “rumors” on a gender. I plan on using the Instagram in order to link it to the website on the bio in order to expand on the number of those watching. On Instagram, there is a comment section where people can express their emotions, their likes and dislike on a certain issue or picture, so I want the audience to engage in a conversation with other about the common issue. I would do this by per week, I can post a picture of a question and have those following the Instagram account share their opinions on the matter. The caption of each picture can highlight an objective that will be discussed on the issue.

            My goal for the future is to become a teacher. What becoming a teacher entails is that you are responsible to set an example and help other gain knowledge and learn. How does this project fit with becoming a teacher? Well, I want to use this project as an opportunity to teach and share with the world that gender stereotype is a thing and it can affect people’s lives especially children. My audience will most likely be young adults since the majority of users of social media are young adults. As I have mentioned before, children are the most effective by this issue because they are relying of those raising to make them who they become in the future and is that not true. Majority of kids today are being limited of who they want to become because they are raise to act a certain way based on their gender. I have found some research articles that supports that gender stereotypes can do more damage than good to children. I want to help young adults that we should first change the way we see genders and then use that to teach children that it is okay for a boy pick a doll at a toy store or for a girl to beat a boy at an arm wrestling match.

 

The artists on Gender Stereotype:

1. Jennifer Rubell—an artist who highlights two stereotypes that is found common in women of power.
    
    
   
   Nutcrackers—Jennifer Rubell
    

 

1. Tiwa Savage—an Afrobeat artist who breaks the stereotype within the male-dominating industry.

She says “Women identify with my music, with my lyrics, and I really use that to my advantage.”

 

 

1. Lauren Salazar—uses yarn to show men and women are not all that different.

 

 

“No More I Love Yous” by Lauren Salazar

 

1. Rebecca Foster—London-based artists describes that stereotypes on men can be just as damaging as it is for women.
   
   Hardeep 2017 by Rebecca Foster
    
2. Robert Gober—creates everyday objects into an advertisement with a deeper meaning.
    
    
   
   Untitled-by Robert Gober
    
    
    
    
   Links to the images and articles:
    

• https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/robert-gober-untitled-1992-93/
• https://rebeccafosterartist.com/section/307867-Portraits.html
• https://laurenlsalazar.com/artwork/3127560_No_More_I_Love_Yous.html
• https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/tiwa-savage-afrobeats-interview
• http://jenniferrubell.com/projects/23-nutcrackers
   
• https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/20/health/geas-gender-stereotypes-study/index.html