In the course Power, Politics, and Decision-making, students studied the relationship between art and urban social movements, including as a tool to mobilize people for a cause and as a means to communicate with a broad audience and share information. Students chose social issues that were important to them and spent a class period learning the art of protest printmaking, using found materials, wood blocks, glue, and ink. Students used stencils to craft messages that they came up with to help communicate the struggle for social justice underlying the issues on which they were focusing.
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