Social Practice Art: Toward Individual Healing, Community Dialogue and Social Change
March 24, 2022 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Social Practice Art: Toward Individual Healing, Community Dialogue and Social Change
Social Practice Art: Toward Individual Healing, Community Dialogue and Social Change
Social Practice Art: Toward Individual Healing, Community Dialogue and Social Change
w/ Nancy Marks
Thursday, March 24, 2022 | 2-3:30 p.m.
Using The Opioid Project: Changing Perceptions through Art and Storytelling as a model, this workshop will explore how to plan and execute a project that uses art to promote dialogue and community response. Participants will explore how to identify an important issue, build relationships, work with a community partner, run a workshop for community participants, and use the art created to promote dialogue and move a community advocacy agenda forward. Nancy will take participants through the successes and learning moments of her ongoing Opioid Project, including how and why it evolved. Following this overview, participants will brainstorm their own ideas/goals to create a project that uses art and storytelling as a vehicle for bringing voices into a community to create change and/or amplify an issue. Nancy Marks is a public health activist, community organizer, and visual artist who has been making art for over 25 years. In 2016, she co-founded The Opioid Project as a way to weave the strands of art, healing, and community change.
Presented in partnership with the Essex County Community Foundation’s Creative County Initiative and Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.
About The Opioid Project: Changing Perceptions through Art and Storytelling: The Opioid Project was created as a response to the escalating epidemic. The Opioid Project’s main goals: support individuals affected by opioid use disorder; increase public awareness about substance use disorder and addiction; decrease stigma by fostering and creating space for community dialogue; and contribute to policy change to increase access to mental health services and substance use treatment.
Best suited for artists interested in social issues and community-based creative work.
Open to artists in Essex County and Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
This workshop will also be recorded! If you’re unable to attend the live session, you can still register via Zoom and, if approved, we’ll send you a link to access the recording after the workshop is complete.
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