Learn how to bring the arts & human rights education to YOUR community in 2018-2019!

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Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE) is proud to continue our grassroots initiative to bring innovative and educational social justice workshops to your community.

 

Due to increasing demand, ARTE offers workshops for both young people and adults. ARTE provides workshops that blend human rights and arts education to develop community, increase global awareness, and build leadership, creativity, and advocacy skills in youth and adult educators.

 

Background on our Grassroots Workshop Initiative:

 

We focus on collaborative art techniques that draw upon street art and other forms of public art, which are significant in their accessibility to diverse groups of people. Our devised curriculum is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). We also create participatory workshops that ultimately draw from the specific issues which are important to the communities in which we work, including the rights of women, children, and immigrants / refugees.

 

Some potential workshops themes include:

 

• Art as a tool for racial justice

• Human rights education for youth

• Using the arts to organize for social justice

• Making human rights change through art and design

• Examining street art through a gender justice lens

 

We are excited to work with you to explore how to best serve your community’s needs. We look forward to learning from and with you as we customize a workshop that will best support your own grassroots organizing. We also seek to build critical partnerships that will allow us to collaboratively make meaningful and sustainable human rights change. This is the time, now more than ever, that we believe communities can recognize their strengths and agency to make critical human rights change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Types of Workshops that We Offer:

 

ARTE recognizes that there are several different ways to engage young people and the adults in their community in human rights education through the arts, therefore we offer a variety of workshops and programs that can be customized based on the needs of your community. While ARTE, first and foremost, supports the human rights education of young people (both middle school and high school students), we also offer programs for adult educators and allies interested in learning how to best support youth communities.

 

Programs can take place during school hours or after-school or on weekends. While based in New York City, we are thrilled to explore ways to visit cities outside of our home base.

 

We offer the following types of short-term and long-term workshops:

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Single Session (90 minute – 2 hours workshop)

 

Participants will receive a basic introduction to international human rights, including a review of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and will complete a simple art collaborative art project through an arts- infused curriculum inspired by their new knowledge. An example of one of these workshops can be found here and an example of an ARTE workshop assembly can be found here.

 

Double Session (2 hours to 4 hours in length, or in two parts)

 

Participants will receive a basic introduction to human rights and will complete a more in-depth art project inspired by their new knowledge. This workshop can focus more in-depth on a particular issue, raising collective awareness around women’s rights and gender inequality, immigrant rights, and/or children’s rights. An example of one of these workshops offered can be found here.

 

Full-day Workshop (4-8 hours)

 

More in-depth human rights introduction that allows participants to explore a specific issue in further depth through interactive, art-based activities. A good option for any adults that want to explore a human rights, arts-based curriculum for a Professional Development session at their school or community center. Information on our Professional Development series, an example of a full-day length workshop can be found here.

 

Quarter-year Session (6-8 week session)

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This 1 ½ - 2 month program allows young people to explore one human rights issue, or a series of human rights issues through smaller, compact, arts-based projects, which might include t-shirt and stencil-making, brochure designing, or developing an original song. An example of this session is our Global Women Heroes project, an art education program highlighting the contributions of six global women activists, culminating in a mural design by incarcerated young women.

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Semester Session (4-6 months)

 

This 4-6 month program, featured in schools, is a faster-paced, truncated version of a year-long program (described below), but still gives young people the opportunity to explore a specific human rights issue in further depth through the development of a small-scale public arts or design project. An example of this long-term program can be found here.

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Full-year Session (10-12 months)

 

The full-year program, featured in schools, gives young people the opportunity to create and implement a large-scale, more permanent public arts project focusing on a particular human rights issue they have chosen to research on. Some past projects may include the development of a public mural, a community exhibition, or an indoor installation that encourages their community to take action on a particular human rights challenge. An example of this long-term program can be found here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What Participants Gain During and After an ARTE Workshop:

 

• Have a greater knowledge of human rights issues relevant around the world and in their communities.

• Be introduced to artists who use their work to inspire awareness of human rights and social justice issues and to encourage change through advocacy.

• Have learned the basics of various art forms and grown confidence in their artistic ability and use of creativity as a means of expression.

• Create a collaborative public art piece that will encourage community engagement on a chosen human rights topic.

• Understand advocacy and organizing strategies.

• Develop leadership skills and a heightened global awareness.

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Testimonials Regarding ARTE’s Work:

 

In the effort to build partnerships with other innovative organizations, we have collaborated with a number of individuals so far; here are some testimonials of ARTE’s work:

 

• “This was an amazing training and was well worth the time. It was really inspiring and ARTE was amazing! I would definitely have them lead the training again!”

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• “It was great to have everyone involved and participating.  I learned a ton of information from the training to bring back to my students.”

 

• “I thought the training was very relevant and thought provoking.  I am excited to continue these conversations in my classroom.”

 

• “The girls in the club liked the presentation very much. They loved that it was interactive and fun. Most of them told me that they never thought about art and human rights. They love how you can incorporate both. The club members told me that they would like to use some of what they learned for our club's future activities.”

 

• “In keeping with our theme, [the ARTE Team] led a session that was both educational and empowering, where participants got to examine their hopes for the future and the tools and tactics they would use to achieve them, all depicted in a beautiful tree installation. [W]e can't wait to work with them again!”

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Past Workshop Collaborators:

 

These are some of the following organizations or institutions ARTE has led workshops with/for in the past: Columbia University Teachers College, Columbia University Justice-in-Education Initiative, Harvard Graduate School of Education, New York University, City College of New York, Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, New York Urban League, Public Allies New York, Community Healthcare Network, the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Maxine Greene School for Imaginative Inquiry, Global Kids, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), the University of Pretoria Centre for Human Rights, Art for Change, Youth in Mind, the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA), and many others.

 

How to Get Involved:

 

Requests for workshops can be submitted on this page. Once you have submitted your workshop or program request, an ARTE representative will get in touch with you regarding logistics and fee for services. Please contact us directly for requests for semester and year-long academic programs. Any questions can be addressed to Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario, Executive Director, at marissa(a)artejustice.org.

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Download a flyer to help spread the word about our workshops! 

 

We can’t wait to learn more about your community and make change together!