"It is the role of the revolutionary artist to make revolution irresistable."
- Toni Cade Bambara

Art transforms hearts, minds, and social movements. This class explores history around movement art.

It is clear that art is used for social movements: from posters to protest signs, t-shirts to buttons, book covers to zine art. What are the overarching principles that tie this art together? Examining recurrent themes, production methods, and makers of political art helps us understand the ways images and messages play roles in social movement strategies and resistance cultures.

In this four-week class you'll:
-- work with with materials on-site at the Interference Archive to follow your own art-research path on one image, group, or icon,
-- learn about types of art and organizations that make "political art",
-- engage in discussions about the creation and dissemination of political art and visual culture,
-- and as a class co-create a digital collection of images, increasing movement documentation.

WHY LOOK AT ART THIS WAY?
Looking over the development of one image tells intersecting stories about liberation, direct action, and autonomous organizing for revolutionary change. Class facilitator Hadassah Damien has spent two years researching visual connections across political arts, and shares strategies as well as theory from her work, which covers the history of raised fist images. Using the focus point of raised fist images allows her to look across a century+ of political art production, while allowing the meaning of this image to shift over time. What will you learn in your research?

COST: $20-100 sliding scale based on income.
If cost is an issue please email info@raisedfist.femmetech.org to enquire about scholarships/

RSVP here -- Limited to 15 participants.

COST: $20-100 for the course. In the interest of financial accessibility, solidarity and mutual aid, we ask that you pick your ticket type based on your income and access to resources. Here is a guide to help you decide:

$1500/month or less: $20 -- 3 spots available
$1500-2500/month: $40 -- 3 spots available
$2500-3500/month: $60 -- 6 spots available
$3500-4500/month: $80 -- 1 spot available
$4500+ /month : $100 -- 1 spot available

Half your ticket cost goes to support the Interference Archive, and half goes to support the teacher. If cost is an issue please email info@raisedfist.femmetech.org to enquire about other options.

Writing: www.femmetech.com