Art as a Tool for Social Justice

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2 Art as a Tool for Social Justice Guided by Why AACN Leadership Symposium at UCLA Gregg Chadwick February 22, 2018

3 Gregg Chadwick American Dream: Barack Obama 30 x20 oil on linen 2008

4 Gregg Chadwick A Walk With Obama 18 x24 oil on linen 2017

5 Paintings and sculptures at their best possess an uncanny ability to communicate ideas and feelings that words or other media sometimes struggle to convey. It seems that especially in times of struggle or unrest, art helps us connect to the personhood of others.

6 Art Creates Dialogue Dialogue Promotes Reflective Discussion And Reflection Leads to Change

7 What do you see in these portraits?

8 Kehinde Wiley Portrait of Barack Obama 2018 Amy Sherald Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama 2018

12 Kehinde Wiley and Barack Obama With Wiley s Portrait of Barack Obama

13 Gregg Chadwick Nursing Study Post Op Recovery 24"x18" oil on linen 2012 Collection Theresa Brown

14 Gregg Chadwick Susan King Taylor: Civil War Nurse 20 x16 oil on linen 2011

15 What s Going On? Why do I paint? Art showed me at a young age that it can help bring the world together.

16 Art Helps Us Understand the Human Condition The Women s March January 2017 and 2018

17 Gregg Chadwick Generation Pink 14 x11 oil on panel 2017

18 Gregg Chadwick The Future Is Woke 40 x30 oil on linen 2017

19 Gregg Chadwick Still I Rise 40 x30 oil on linen 2017

20 By peering through the windows of literary and other artworks, we build moral energy to face ethical dilemmas with integrity. - Margaret Hegge

21 Gregg Chadwick Art In the Time of Trump January 2017

22 Gregg Chadwick #Me Too Art and Feminism Now January 2018

23 Understanding My Why: Becoming an artist

24 Rembrandt The Sampling Officials 75 x110 oil on linen 1662 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

25 Pablo Picasso Guernica oil on canvas 1937 Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

The Black Experience, a 10-foot-by-27-foot mural was created in 1970 by a group of seven black UCLA students. The mural is located next to Panda Express on the first floor of Ackerman Union.

26 The Black Experience, a 10-foot-by-27-foot mural was created in 1970 by a group of seven black UCLA students. The mural is located next to Panda Express on the first floor of Ackerman Union. A false wall erected during renovations in 1992 had kept the mural hidden for two decades. The movement to uncover the mural gained momentum in fall 2012 after members of the Afrikan Student Union brought the mural to the attention of the Associated Students UCLA board of directors. - Ackerman Student Union 1970

27 The Black Experience - Ackerman Student Union 1970

28 Gregg Chadwick Unforgettable Fire (Hiroshima) 49 x60 oil on linen 1987

29 Gregg Chadwick Dachau 60 x49 oil on linen 1987

30 Why do I continue to paint themes related to social justice? Art Creates Dialogue Dialogue Promotes Reflective Discussion And Reflection Leads to Change

31 Art can help you get inside someone else's experience

32 Art can help you get inside someone else's experience and see the dignity of the individual.

33 Gregg Chadwick Ciudad de la Memoria 38 x38 oil on linen 2004

34 Gregg Chadwick HardRock ( Timothy Caughman) 40 x40 oil on linen 2017 Say his name - Timothy Caughman - murdered in New York City by a White Nationalist Terrorist. Timothy was a retired social worker who cared deeply about the homeless community in NY. He will be deeply missed.

35 Social justice embodies the vision of a society that is equitable and in which all members are physically and psychologically safe. Social justice also demands that all people have a right to basic human dignity and to have their basic economic needs met. -The Center for Non-Violence and Social Justice

Gregg Chadwick Ferguson to Baltimore 24"x48" oil on linen 2015-2017

37 Gregg Chadwick Ferguson to Baltimore 24"x48" oil on linen Inspired by the Poetry of Langston Hughes and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

38 From Twitter to YouTube to Canvas Art Helps Us Understand the Human Condition The Green Revolution Justice for Iran

39 Gregg Chadwick Poem of Scutari: Florence Nightingale 30 x20 oil on linen 2011

40 Neda - We watched her die. I painted her that weekend not dead Chadwick recalls watching Neda in her last moments in this world on TV, and suddenly the distance between California and that street in Tehran was cut thin and I felt it.i knew her face needed to be remembered as a human being with personhood, with a face of beauty and of innocence but also with cause. #Twitter Advocacy

41 Gregg Chadwick Sheltering Sky On Exhibit in Maastricht, the Netherlands

42 Gregg Chadwick Neda Projected In Times Square 2012

43 Gregg Chadwick The Crossing 72 x48 oil on linen 2004

44 Gregg Chadwick Fire Sermon Studio View 80 x80 oil on linen 2004

45 Gregg Chadwick Balance of Shadows 72 x96 oil on linen 2004

46 Gregg Chadwick Road to Mandalay 40 x30 oil on linen 2008

47 Who Are We? Art Helps Us Understand Diversity LGBTQ Concerns

48 Gregg Chadwick June 26, x36 oil on linen 2015

49 George Takei From the NoH8 Campaign

50 Alice Neel Jackie Curtis and Rita Red 60 x41.7 oil on canvas 1970 Collection Cleveland Museum of Art

51 Where Are We Going? Art Helps Us Understand Our Global Reality Environmental Concerns

52 Gregg Chadwick The Water Carrier's Dream (Serengeti) 24 x30 oil on linen 2017

53 We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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PAGES SAMPLE Pablo PICASSO Spanish 1881 1973, worked in France 1904 73 Weeping woman 1937 oil on canvas 55.2 x 46.2 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased by donors of The Art Foundation of Victoria,