Finding Voice: A Visual Arts Approach to Engaging Social Change
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0472053663 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. In Finding Voice, Kim Berman demonstrates how she was able to use visual arts training in disenfranchised communities as a tool for political and social transformation in South Africa. Berman's work, and the community artwork her book documents, present the visual arts as a crucial channel for citizens to find their individual voices and to become agents for change in the arenas of human rights and democracy. Using her own fieldwork as a case study, Berman shows how hands-on work in the arts with learners of all ages and backgrounds can contribute to economic stability by developing new skills, as well as enhancing public health and gender justice within communities
Berman is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg and the Executive Director of Artist Proof Studio. Kim S.
"Finding Voice offers a sustained examination of an arts-based response to the ongoing HIV-AIDS crisis in South Africa. It tells an important story about the adaptability of and stress in arts organizations as they respond to the changing context of the profoundly unsettling policy failures." --Julie Ellison, University of Michigan