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Art of Justice with D.S. Kinsel
February 9, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Artmaking + Literature + Social Justice for young people and their grownups
ARTIST D.S. Kinsel
BOOKS Radiant Child:The Story of Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me poem by Maya Angelo with paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat
THEME Digital Disruption, Art and Activists, Storytelling
ARTMAKING Digital Protest Signs
About the Project
#hashtagsarethenewprotestsigns is a visual commentary on how community action has evolved due to the influence of technology.
What’s important to you? What would you like to make a sign about? How will you share it to let your voice be heard and inspire others?
There will also be an be a community conversation at 10:15 am, led by Bekezela Mguni, about what it means to raise children with anti-racist values. D.S. Kinsel will read selections from our Art of Justice Library at 9:30 and 11:45 am
About the Artist: D.S. Kinsel
D.S. Kinsel is an award-winning creative entrepreneur and cultural agitator. He expresses his creativity through the mediums of painting, window display, installation, curating, action-painting, non-traditional performance and #HASHTAGS. Kinsel. has served as artist-in-residence at Most Wanted Fine Art, Artist Image Resource, The Homewood Residency Program, Kelly Strayhorn Theater/PPS Summer Dreamers Academy, Carnegie Mellon University Digital Arts Studio, AS220 and the Sedona Summer Artist Colony. D.S. is the co-founder Of Boom Concepts, A Creative Hub dedicated to the advancement of black and brown artists representing marginalized communities.
About The Art of Justice!
Learn how artists are using art for social change and how their literary inspirations have guided their creative practice: make work alongside them to express yourself and share your vision for a just and equitable world. #artofjustice #remakelearning
Three artists, Alisha Wormsley, Max Gonzales and Darrell Kinsel will work with us on artmaking projects connected to literature, based on social justice themes. These will be suitable for all ages. Families are invited to come early, before classes, or to stay after classes to talk, read and make things together.
This series is curated by Bekezela Mguni, of the Black Unicorn Library and Archives Project, and funded by Remake Learning‘s The Great Remake. Workshops and artmaking activities take place in the Social Hall (basement level) of East Liberty Presbyterian Church on 10/27/18, 11/17/18, 12/1/18, 1/12/19, 1/19/19, 2/2/19 and 2/9/19.
D.S. KINSEL’S LITERARY INSPIRATIONS
FOR GROWNUPS
• We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
• Parable of the Sower* – Octavia Butler • Airtight Willie & Me – Iceberg Slim
• Gringolandia – Matthew Hayes
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X
• Everything but the Burden: What White People are Taking from Black Culture – Greg Tate
FOR TEENS (and grownups)
• Boy Meets Boy – David Levithan
• The Giver* – Louis Lowry
• Dumplin’ – Julie Murphy
• The Hate U Give* – Angie Thomas
• Queer, There, and Everywhere, 23 People Who Changed the World – Sara Prager
FOR CHILDREN (and grownups)
• Super Hero Girls – Shea Fontana
• Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – Amy Reeder
• Lumberjanes – Noelle Stevenson
• Ms. Marvel – G Wilson
• Black Panther* – Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Static Shock – Scott McDaniel
• Xmen – Chris Claremont
*These books have been added to our collection. The Art of Justice is generously funded by Remake Learning’s The Great Remake