SFE 2024 Artist Think Tank Spotlight: Art and Social Justice with shiloh burton
Artist Think Tank Spotlight: Art and Social Justice with shiloh burton
What makes art transformative?
How can art be more accessible, inclusive, and participatory?
Fee: $10
Discover these answers and more as we introduce a special guest to this Artist Think Tank Spotlight. Meet shiloh burton, an artist serving as a conduit, space provider and collaborator.
They will share their approach to working together with audiences to make art that aims to transform. shiloh will discuss their Social Practice Art practice.
In this workshop they will discuss:
- What is Social Practice Art and how to inspire audience participation
- The role of the artist as “culture maker"
- The transformative power of story
- Collaboration, artist collectives and their experience with social practice art making
- Getting creative with funding to spend more time making/sharing art
We created a Zoom space for artists - like yourselves - to learn, ask questions, and have conversations about topics in the business-of-arts. This is your chance to connect with your peers, at all levels of expertise.
Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities and language assistance services are available for limited English proficient individuals. Please notify Roseanna Perea, rperea@wesst.org when you register for the class, or no later than 24 hours prior to your class, so that WESST can make sure necessary accommodations are available. All programs and services are provided to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.
The Women's Business Center is funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration. All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA.
Speaker(s): shiloh burton’s passion, purpose and practice is storytelling and the medium remains secondary. As a social practice artist with photographic origins, they possess 30+ years experience in a variety of visual, audio and digital mediums and became the self-appointed acting director of the Identity Intelligence Institute in 2005, to house their social practice, performance and participatory art practice and earned an MFA from SJSU in 2010. In addition to their art practice, they possess an extensive educational background from teaching both analog and digital photography, digital storytelling, graphic design, digital video arts and AP 2-D Studio Art at Irvington High School for 16 years.
Co-Sponsor(s):
This training class will be delivered in English.
Fee: $ 10.00
Payment will be processed via Authorize.net after you complete your registration. Limited coupon codes are available upon request.
Funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.
All opinions, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA.