1. Make your mark A community activity

2. What is it about • A project about having fun • The artist using the community • Letting the community use the artist • Inclusive • Non-profit

3. What the project can do Creative, revitalize the community Make community art

4. BUT it needs to be: • Safe – no law breaking, no climbing ladders, no carrying spades or illicit spray cans around • No special skills • An inclusive art/activity

5. BUT it needs to be: • Safe – no law breaking, no climbing ladders, no carrying spades or illicit spray cans around • No special skills • An inclusive art/activity Why?

6. Examples of community art • Graffiti • Guerrilla gardening • Yarn bombing

7. Graffiti • Community based? • Some is attractive

8. Graffiti • Community based? • Some is attractive • Some has a message

9. Graffiti • Community based? • Some is attractive • Some has a message • Some is just ugly and destructive

10. Guerrilla gardening • Links to graffiti – find this image on a guerrilla gardening website

11. Guerrilla gardening • Links to graffiti • The aim is to reclaim spaces, re-green and beautify the city jungle

12. Guerrilla gardening • Links to graffiti • The aim is to reclaim spaces, re-green and beautify the city jungle • No space is too small

13. Yarn bombing • Shows its graffiti origins – sharing location

14. Yarn bombing • Shows its graffiti origins • Described as unthreatening warm and fuzzy graffiti

15. Graffiti, gardening, bombing • Some is social/political commentary • But graffiti artists, guerrillas and bombers are having fun • These forms of community art require: • specific skills • a will to break the law

16. The community in community art • Involve the community in making art • Involve the art community as volunteer enablers • Make it accessible to all

17. The community in community art • Involve the community in making art • Accessible to all • How? • Non destructive • Something about the people (identity!) • While made with community involvement it doesn’t have to remain in the public sphere

18. Make a mark equation Identity +inclusiveness + positive reminder +fun =Making a mark

19. How to make a mark • Draw it • Paint it • Write it

20. How to make a mark • Draw it • Paint it • Write it Wear it

21. On a t-shirt

22. Where and when At the beach

23. Where and when The local park

24. Take away your own graffiti

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