Today we're introducing this semester's first creative project. The art & politics broadside is due next Thursday (draft on Tuesday). The second one: the artist zine is due March 12.
You can think of a broadside in much the same way you think of a poster. The one crucial difference is that a broadside has a significant textual element. In other words, it combines an image (or images) with writing.
Here's your challenge: Write an original text (you might think of it as a poem, a passage of prose, a list, or anything with words), and combine it with imagery. The imagery need not be original, but you might want to use your own drawing/painting, design-work, illustration, photography, etc. You can also use appropriated images or collage or any other technique.
The theme should have something to do with the intersection of art and politics. If you don't think that art and politics interest, make that the topic of your broadside. Here's a link to over a hundred broadsides from the al-Mutanabbi St. Project.
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