Kimberly Drew is an activist that in her book she made the reader caught an idea about how they have to connect themselves with the art. As shown in the book Kimberly Drew is an activist artist. She connects her art with the activism in a form as the social currency. She made people caught the meaning of the activism and how an activist may act. The reading “this is what I know about art” by Kimberly drew is an amazing book. This book is good because it connects the needs of the space that we need. It also connects me to me in a way that I can identify with a lot of things. That’s one thing that caught my attention in the reading. In the reading she started talking about her family raised her to be the best version of her. She was so grateful for her family and her friends because they help her to be a better person. In the reading, she said, “I have known my lane”, which’s something that connects with the discussion that we had before in the class. It connects with the activist people that they all know their lane and knows what they want from the beginning. It also connects to me because I have known my lane since I was a little kid and that’s something important because everyone has to have a purpose in their lives and something that they have to follow. It connects to one project that I made where I said that “this artwork definition is one of the reasons if my inspiration. one thing I studying to be a police officer and after that to be a detective. it inspires me because of the success that Napoleon had been the military. I want to be as big as he was being a police officer and being a detective”. At first in the reading, she traded her lunch for artwork from made by her classmates just because they used to do it better than her. At the end of that, she didn’t feel happy about that because trading her food for the artwork was something that she didn’t enjoy because she didn’t make the artwork. The reading made by Kimberly Drew connects the art and activism in a way that it will help us to learn new things and to be curious about what it is. It opens extra space in our lives that let us know we also can do more and more. Some people share activism art in a way to be heard by a particular amount of people. Artistic activism is the practice of combining art to move of emotionally with the strategic planning of activism, but art and activism are to different words that have different works. According to the center for artistic activism: “the activism is the activity of challenging power relations” and “art tends not to have a clear target.” Activism it’s one for a cause while art is something that creates feelings or emotions while we are doing it. (The Center for Artistic Activism 2020). Based on that, Kimberly created art and activism to create a way to express herself. According to this definition, I want to link it with the creator of the reading because that’s how Kimberly wants to be known for. Not only Kimberly, but a lot activist expresses their feeling with art because that’s something that doesn’t offend anybody because it is art, and a lot of people express their feelings by “art”. Sometimes artist activist promote art for a bad purpose. For example: when the black lives matter movement started some activists promote artwork in negative forms because they used it in some way to create controversy with other people. also, what happened too was the rioting in a lot of stores like in sneaker stores and grocery stores
While reading the book something connects me to it which was “When assigned art projects, I would trade my lunch for artwork made by my classmates who I knew had better art skills (Drew 11)”. I grew up like that. When I was younger I didn’t like to some of my art assignments because I thought that the professor was going to give me a 0. I used to pay to anyone just to do my art assignments. I used to do it for 3 years straight. Once I decided to do it by myself and I dedicated time to it and for that assignment a received a 90 which is not a bad grade. After that I read a book and I took a quote that says, “if they can do it, why can’t you do it?”. that changed my life and after that, I always try to do the most in everything I do.
Work cited
Drew, K. (2020). This Is What I Know About Art. Penguin USA.
Posted byThe Center for Artistic Activism. “Why Artistic Activism?” The Center for Artistic Activism, 15 Dec. 2020, c4aa.org/2018/04/why-artistic-activism.
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