Jjenna Hupp Andrews
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“Act! Do Something”, LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Grand Rapids MI. – Feb 2016

Abstract: When art is created as part of the social sphere, it can bring attention to and effect change in a larger context. Joseph Beuys once said: "I am not a teacher who tells his students only to think. I say: Act; Do something; I ask for a result. It may take different forms.” It is this statement that inspired the assignment “Act! Do something” that I give students in the second week the Introduction to Contemporary Art History course. Beuys believed everyone had the potential to be an artist, which he defined as “a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and condition our lives"; it is in this vein that I ask each student to think of a small act that she/he can do this week that can have an effect on her/his larger community (the student defines what constitutes his/her community). In this short talk, I seek to not only share some of the amazing “somethings” that my students performed, but also how such an assignment broadened students understanding of art and community, and the power of simple, small actions can affect others in their community and world.
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    • Teaching Philosophy >
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      • In the Studio
    • Professional Development
  • Artwork
    • Exhibitions >
      • Mott Art Faculty Exhibition -GFAC
      • STATUS 2019
      • Flint City Artists 2019
      • Flint: More than Just Water, and Exhibition
      • ArtPATH Lansing 2018
      • Lifeblood
      • Artists Treading Water
      • Nomadic Boarderlands
      • Second Skin
      • All They Survey
      • Liminal
      • Touching Life
      • intervals…interfaces…interstices
    • Suffer the little children series >
      • Suffer the little children, COVID-19 Portrait Series
      • Suffer the little children... War/Refugee Portrait Series
      • Suffer the little children...(Installations)
      • Postcards from the forgotten edge of forever
    • Selected Artwork >
      • Of Umbrellas & Votes
    • In Process >
      • Suffer the Little Children... In Process
      • SAY HER/HIS/THEIR NAME
  • Publications
    • Books >
      • Flint Water Crisis
      • Lost In Media
      • Dissertation
    • Articles
    • Presentations >
      • Inclusive Language in the Remote Learning Environment
      • The Water Within LAND Conference 2-7-19
      • Facing College: Engaging International and Immigrant Students through a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Storytelling Project.
      • Seek & Find: Connections
      • Contemporary Artists as Stewardship
      • Act! Do Something
      • Wangechi Mutu
      • Ask me Why I'm RAD
      • Exploring ‘My Place(s) in this World’
      • Watching a Revolution
    • Speaking Engagements >
      • Multiple Identities, Two Cultures, One Voice: The Art & Activism of Contemporary Afro-Latina & Afro-Latinx-Q Artists
      • Don't tell me what to do: Creative Careers Vol. 1
      • The Aesthetic Lens: Engaging Sociopolitical Injustice Through Art
      • Artists Treading Water
      • Social Justice Speaker in Residence
    • Press >
      • Student Project
      • Donor Mural
    • CV
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