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IMAGE BANK

Arts as Civic Commons

This Project Zero work is currently in development and should not be widely dis-tributed. This document contains images and works of art that are copyrighted

and it is not intended for public use.

Choosing a Work of ArtThe following pages include a bank of images of works of art. We believe that these art-works will work well with any ArtC routine or arc. The art you choose for a particular routine or arc is completely up to you. We encourage you to choose art that seems interesting and relevant to your class. Please note that the works of art in the following pages are only suggestions. You are free to use any work of art with civically-related themes, even if it is not included in this packet.

Scroll and Click!As you look through the next few pages, we invite you to click on an image to find more in-formation about the work of art and the artist. By clicking on the image you will be redirect-ed to a google slides presentation that includes a higher quality image, information about the artwork, and links for further investigation of the work. The information on the slides is for your use, but please feel free to use the slides to share the images during your classes.

A Few Notes about the ArtSome of the artworks are in a series that include multiple, related pieces (i.e. Soundsuits). If a work of art featured here is part of a series, we have written “(series)” after the title. For a series, you might consider using multiple images of different pieces in the series with your students. You might also choose a piece in the series that is not pictured in the Image Bank. You can find more images of the series by clicking on the image and exploring the links provided.

Some of the works of art are 3D (untitled (giran)). Others are videos (Emissaries: in Pursuit of Venus [infected]) or feature movement that cannot quite be captured by a single two dimensional image (IT IS GUNS (STUDENTS TALK COMMON SENSE)). We invite you to think about the best way(s) to share these works with students. Giving the students an un-derstanding of the piece might require a combination of multiple images or an image and a video.

Some of these artworks are quite large. When you share the work of art with students, it is a good idea to give students a sense of the scale. For example, is the work of art an 8 x 10 photograph or would it likely take up the entire wall of your classroom.

Make sure students are able to easily see the work of art, even the seemingly less im-portant details. It might be a good idea to project one or more images of the artwork on a screen for your students or to provide a printed image of the artwork to groups of students.

Art and Civic ThemesSeveral of the routines and arcs invite you and your students to identify a civic theme re-lated to the work. There is no right answer to what this theme should be. The themes can range from something very general like “human beings relationship to nature” to something very specific like “voting rights.” However, here are a few ideas for some broad themes that could connect to the art works in this image bank.

These civic themes include: environmental issues; gender identities; LGBTQ+; coloniza-tion; indigeneity; criminal justice system; gun violence; immigration; homelessness; mass consumption/consumer culture; community; equity; justice; sustainability.

These are only suggestions. Feel free to choose any civic themes - even ones not included in the above list - and we look forward to learning what you choose.

HOW TO USE THE IMAGE BANK

Nick Cave, Soundsuits (series), 2004

Robert Mapplethorpe, Lady, Lisa Lyon (series), 1983

Andrea Bowers, Trans Liberation: Building a Movement (Cece McDonald), 2016

Jan Nelson, Black River Running (series), 2018

Hoda Afshar, Under Western Eyes (series), 2013 -14

Jonathan Jones and Dr. Uncle Stan Grant Snr, untitled (giran), 2018

Marcos Ramírez, Orange Country, 2019

Lisa Reihana, Emissaries: in Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2017

Guan Wei, The Journey to Australia, 2013

Chris Jordan, Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption (series), 2004

Megan Seres, Danger of a Single Story (series), 2017

Sarah Ross, Archisuits (series), Date Unknown

Jenny Holzer, IT IS GUNS (STUDENTS TALK COMMON SENSE), 2018

Kylie Banyard, Photography and Cabbages, 2019

Worry Lines, Untitled, 2020

Tommy Fung, Meanwhile in Hong Kong, 2020

Archie Moore, Under My Skin (exhibit), 2017Archie Moore, My Skin (front), 2017