Nuit Blanche Analysis

In history, there have been many social changes that have occurred like the industrial revolution, the abolition of slavery and the Civil Right Movement. The less powerful not having enough voices to overcome the obstacles being erected by the powerful and many more examples. These voices play a major role when it comes to making big political and social changes. In “Return to Hayneville,” Gregory Orr recounts his experience and involvement in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. He argues that vocal campaigns and movements in public discourse and deep connections within people, help bring about change in today’s society. Whereas, In Vivian Yee, Alan Blinder and Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Parkland Students Start a Social Movement” they bring

I’ve always felt a strange connection to the stars, one that I have never fully understood. I used to believe that it was simply the night itself that appealed to me. There is something so incredibly compelling about it. It’s not the silence, necessarily, but the way that every breath is amplified; it’s not so much the darkness, but the way that the stars light it up. There is an unparalleled magic to them, to the way that they swirl and writhe and explode of their own accord. Although the moon will orbit for eternity and the stars will eventually fade into submission, it is the latter that I admire the most. I would rather die at the hands of my own power and light than live infinitely off of the nectar of somebody else’s.

Adopting a tongue-in-cheek tone, they list the so called ‘advantages’ faced by women artists in the 1980’s, such as “working without the pressure of success” and “knowing your career might pick up after you’re eighty”. The Guerrilla Girls demonstrate their strategy of using humour and sarcasm to break down discrimination within the art industry through this artwork. It reflects how discrimination is experienced by all kinds of women, both within and outside the art industry. The poster highlights not only the difficulties of being recognised as a female artist, but also the difficulties of balancing a career and personal life in a society that undervalues women’s contribution. The Guerrilla Girls wanted female artists to recognise that they are not the only ones being discriminated against, women all over the world, not only artists, can identify with this. The public are confronted with the hard truth that it isn’t just women artist being targeted, but all women in the world are discriminated against, and it isn’t right. The audience are supposed to look at this piece and feel challenged. They are supposed to tell the Guerrilla Girls what they are writing is wrong, but they can’t, because what is said in this piece is what is really happening in their society. The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist is successful

If you ever get a chance to visit Chaco Canyon National Monument in New Mexico, you should take the time to just stand in the desert and listen. The silence in this place is physical; you can feel it surround you. This is a silence with depth and layers that are unbroken even by the wind, which moves through emptiness and speaks only in occasional sighs through the canyons. The air itself is very clear—the lack of humidity gives the cliffs and buttes sharp lines, and the colors of the earth, though muted, stand in stark relief to the blueness of the sky. Night comes gradually to this place. The height and dryness of the air allows the stars to appear before the sun has set—creating an odd

The stars are bright and radiant-- their numbers are vast beyond all imagination. They shine in the dark sky, like billions of little lights hanging from nonexistent threads. It is a reality that not many people stop to admire. In the city people sink down into their couches at night and drift away, eventually, to the slumber that most people crave. But the stars, shining endlessly, are there night after night, in the rain and even in the snow. If you just stop for a moment, on a night with no clouds, and look up, you will see this magnificent

community space, or our new exhibit “A Nursery for Militant Suffragists”: The History of the

Activists make their messages and movements known through art in order to express messages, validate identities, and to make struggles known, calling themselves ARTivists to show that there is an often undervalued intersection between the two. But before the coining of the term, activists have been creating art to advance themselves and their communities. ARTivists within the Chicano community have especially been creating art in order to validate and record their own experiences. ARTivism is crucial in today’s society and culture as it intersects art and politics in order to emphasize injustices that are deeply rooted within these structures. By decolonizing and deconstructing exploitive structures, ARTivists liberate the oppressed while creating a more socially conscious future by allowing the oppressed to create their own voice and tell their own stories.

A world without the excessive use of vapid lighting will allow people to enjoy the magnificent stars as captured in Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”. Bogard then moves on to establishing the beauty of Paris as the “City of Light”. In stark contrast to its status as a city illuminated by beautiful artificial lighting, the city has taken steps to limit the use of these excessive lighting, in turn turning Paris from “a city of light” to “a city of light … before 2AM.” This dichotomy allows Bogard’s audience to appreciates the importance of preserving the night sky via limiting the presence of artificial light. If a city which is famed for its use of artificial lighting is able to preserve the natural darkness while concurrently preserving its natural beauty, it is a given that society will be able to mimic this

The name of this event is “An Evening with Elder Madonna Thunder Hawk: Building Solidarity and Resistance Movements.” Here students and community members will be able to discuss the current political climate on a national and global scale. They will also be able to speak about the state of activism and how to organize effectively. With Madonna’s lifelong work as an indigenous activist and her current leadership as part of the Standing Rock Resistance Movement, her knowledge, advice and inspiration on our campus is greatly needed right now.

Partnering with the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre, the Cathedral Village Arts Festival, and FadaDance the Art Gallery of Regina presented a full day of free programming for our 2017 Open House. The AGR partnered with the CVAF, plus also successfully applied for Canada 150 funds in support of an contemporary dance piece performed in the gallery in response our exhibition Landforms. Additionally, our Canada 150 grant extended to funding a painting demo by exhibiting artist Mike Keepness in the NBCAC courtyard space. Some of the visitors sat watching and speaking with Mike over the full duration of Mike’s demo. Plus, our gallery full of visitors watching the FadaDance performance, people enjoyed connection to the paintings and the history of the landscape presented through dance.

In the art work, The Roar of Our Stars by Alice X. Zhang, there are numerous details that are present. In this piece there is a sky that starts off as dark blue and red towards the bottom, but as it gets to the top it transitions to a less dark blue, and then to a light blue with a touch of a light red on the left side. Across the sky there are what seems to be hundreds of white points with yellow tints that start off distinct and small towards the bottom, while growing in size and have a faded look as they go up the image. These points that represent stars each have red, white, orange, and blue glares that run up and down vertically. These stars create a cluster towards the top left corner that creates a slightly blurred white light. Centered on the bottom half of the page, there is a person in a light brown tweed jacket, a white button up collared shirt with thin strips, and a red bowtie. This brown haired man is staring up, smiling with his mouth ajar, towards the main cluster of stars that are creating the light shinning down on him with his hands slightly raised at chest level.

The College of Art Association established the Committee on Women in the Arts which promotes the scholarly study and recognition of women’s contributions to the visual arts and to critical and art-historical studies; monitors the status of women in the visual-arts professions; and supports emerging artists and scholars in their careers ("Committees"). The Women's Caucus for Art was founded in 1972 in connection with the College Art Association. As an NGO (non-governmental organization) of the United Nations, the Women’s Caucus for Art actively supports the UN Millennium Goals as well as being a founding member of the Feminist Art Project, WCA is part of a collaborative national initiative celebrating the Feminist Art Movement and the aesthetic. The mission of the Women's Caucus for Art is to create community through art, education, and social activism. They are committed to recognizing the contributions of women in the arts; providing women with leadership opportunities and professional development; expanding networking and exhibition opportunities for women ; supporting local, national, and global art activism; advocating for equity in the arts for all ("About

The Guerilla Girls are a women’s activist art group. They are masked women who came together to make change in the world of art and women’s involvement in society. GG emerged in 1985 and still are active today in New York after 30 years of the emergence of the group. The Guerilla Girls used posters with real statistics to show awareness of sexism in the art world and the discrimination of women in politics as well as in the mass media. The Guerrilla Girls spread awareness of sexism in art, discrimination in politics and the mass media through their workshops, performances, and posters.

Magnificent, heavenly light filters through the wispy clouds, signifying a new day. The thin clouds slowly drift apart, presenting a beautiful sky beneath. Speaking out to me, the sky seems to know every one of my thoughts, my dreams, my darkest fears. The sky is but a canvas of light, creating a new picture within seconds. Weaving a story through the delicate clouds, the picture grows beyond the expanse of sky. The colors splay before me, painfully beautiful and simple. Pink hues morph into vibrant purples as they blend with the beautiful blues. The glittering stretch of sea shines before my eyes. With every new wave, the light from above whispers promises of riches and sparkling diamonds. The light breeze that kisses the sea sends the twinkling light back into the air above.

When I was little, one of my fondest memories was during Christmas while living out in the desert. My parents, unable to purchase presents due to a lack of money this time of year, or most times of the year, settled for something different. Dad took us kids out into the desert one by one and told each of us to pick out a star in the night sky; we could pick out any star we wanted. I remember staring up at the night sky and being totally astonished seeing all of the twinkling stars and lights and then my father crouched down next to me: “Rich city folks, he’d say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn’t even see the stars. We’d have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with