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Finding Beauty In Another Reality
Denise Brown A decade ago, when the Leeway Foundation decided to support artists and cultural producers interested in community transformation and working at the intersection of art, culture and social...
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A Tending
Aracelis Girmay I begin with that which is languageless. Gesture, wordless calls of grief or joy, exclamation, a dancer’s body moving in time. What John Edgar Wideman calls, in his essay “In Praise of...
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Flash Back/Flash Forward: Considering Aesthetics in Arts & Social Change Work
Pam Korza Flashback: 2002. Aesthetics and related questions of criticism, evaluation, and meaning in community-based arts are grist for a session at Alternate ROOTS’s 25th anniversary Focus on...
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The Aesthetics of Politics, Art, and Communications
Nato Thompson When we begin to wrap our heads around the fact that culture-making surrounds us on a daily basis, and that everyday people are now both consumers and producers of symbolic production, we...
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Not Just Pretty: Aesthetics in Social Impact Design
Annie Wu Though the practice of design encompasses both form and function, conversation about it often circles around aesthetics—the graphics of the next iOS operating system, for instance, or the...
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Calling Out to the Old Radical Herbert Marcuse
Bob Leonard The definition of aesthetics drafted for 2014 ROOTS Week seems to have stood up usefully: “aesthetics are means by which art and art-making respond to and stimulate sensory and emotional...
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What is Beauty Without Justice?
Carlton Turner what is beauty without justice? a hollow shell. a shallow façade anxiously anticipating time’s decay exposing the space where it’s soul should be -me In defining aesthetics, beauty is...
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A Brute in America: Poetry and an Interrogation of Violence
Patrick Rosal I’ve been in a bunch of fistfights. I fought many years into my adult life. After brawling, me and dudes in my crew would slip from the scene, hit a diner, order burgers or late-night...
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Seeing Power and Possibility in Socially Engaged Art
Deborah Fisher There is a productive conflict at the root of any discussion about aesthetics and social practice that I would like to focus on. On one hand, attempting to articulate anything about the...
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Re-Imagining Beauty, Embracing Complexity
Andy Horwitz The question of aesthetics in socially engaged art is as fraught and enduring as our varied understandings of what constitutes critical discourse. In a society so fully enveloped by the...
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Ae$thetics and Social ¢hange
Anitra Budd When I was asked to write an entry for this blog salon, I was excited. When I noted the topic, aesthetics and social change, I was alarmed. In trying to analyze this instinctual sense of...
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But What About Quality?
Nina Simon Scene: a regional workshop on arts engagement. A funder is speaking with conviction about the fact that her foundation is focusing their arts grantmaking strategy on engagement. Engaging new...
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The Beauty of Change: Re-imagining Small Town America
John Davis I am the Executive Director of Lanesboro Arts, a multidisciplinary arts organization founded in 1980. Lanesboro Arts fulfills its mission to serve as a regional catalyst for artistic...
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It’s time to Replace the “Broken Window” with a “Scaffold Up.”
Amy Sanamman A year ago, New York City voted in its first new mayor in 12 years. The city council election resulted in new members in almost half of the 51 seat council. It was an exciting time for the...
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Beauty and the “We”
Roberto Bedoya “Our experience of the beautiful in the recognition of models that make world and community is restricted to the moment when these worlds and communities present themselves explicitly as...
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