Perspectives of Comic-Book Culture(s)
Exploring Cummunity & Celebration
...of Comic-book Arts - Origins to Present-day
Mission
Making space to explore the traditional and multi-cultural indigenous comic-book art influences in contemporary comic / arts cultures.
Comics are deeply rooted in indigenous and pre-columbian art. Accessible and mainstream, the comic-book-arts-culture takes many forms and styles of expressions internationally. Book making art, appealing composition & layout, volumetric calligraphy, character/ landscape/ prop illustration, costume, and storytelling make up contemporary pop culture. Despite this arts popularity, it is relatively unassociated with indigenous origins, but instead historically instructed from a eurocentric perspective. (Read it...)
Vision
The proposed series of free to the public artistic talks, interactive demonstrations/ installations, stories and will encourage conversations with local families, students, community, artists, and cultural consultants. It will appeal to a diverse and widespread audience, from our local and rich artistic San Diego culture.
Exhibition-related public programming will be included, as well as outreach to local schools and community groups, furthering encouraged attendance.
Visitors from all ethnic, economic, and age backgrounds, are invited to engage in free art sessions for the entire community. Online visitors will get video coverage broadcast-live via social media, for our arts enthusiasts.
Goals
A collaborative humanities community experience, encouraging active living, improving quality of life, with culture, nature, and art.
Leveraging Comic Arts to connect community and families, historically under-represented in art history to amplify celebration of multi-cultural contributions and
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).
Via nature & arts, the project seeks to educate and engage the public about the often overlooked origins of Comic-Book-Culture, and our Regenerative Cultura Climate Action opportunities.
The project aims to bridge generational, racial, and economic divides. It will create greater cultural awareness,
empathy, and offer valuable historical insights to the entire comic-book-culture community.
Will also include students at local schools and colleges.
Via research based holistic approaches to humanities, our communities build:
Mental health (via Nature and Arts self expression)
Physical health (Traveling / Remote Temporary Installations/ Cooking Demonstrations and Educational Workshops)
Cultural and Climate Resiliency (Learning via Connecting – We are all native from somewhere – Let’s celebrate cultural perpetuity.)
Critical actionable skills about land stewardship via community led environmental climate action work days / exhibition day combination. (Read it...)
Activities
Practical Work: Sets of timed drawing/ painting exercises for example, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, & 10 minutes drawing challenges.Community Invited to Share Artwork, during breaks. (Read it...)
These humanities gathering will help cover materials and cost of Monthly Multicultural / Community Cultural Celebrations
Oral history share, Cooking Demonstrations,
Climate Action Work Days
(Clean ups,
Native Plant Propagation,
Invasive Species Removal)
Visual history share/ study
