Art Community
Exploring Art in Your Community: Connecting Visual Art and Literature, a guest post by Amy Brownlee
As a librarian and reading teacher, I am always looking for ways to make connections between what students are reading and the community.
In my 25 years in education, I’ve helped students connect to visual arts through picture books, novels, nonfiction, collaborations with the art teacher, and illustrator studies. I love art galleries, art museums, and public art. I believe our lives are enriched by viewing, discussing, and creating art.
West Sussex County Council has included the project in its infrastructure improvement plans for Worthing railway station.
The project is part of the Railway Approach partnership scheme, which is part of the Worthing Growth deal, a five-year partnership with West Sussex County Council and Worthing Borough Council.
The scheme has successfully upgraded the front of the station, with improved walking and cycling access and newly planted green areas, to enhance accessibility and safety.
Read More: https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/24958060.community-art-project-launched-enhance-worthing-station/
A Banksy artwork on the shutters of London Zoo has been removed for “safekeeping” and to allow the attraction to use its full entrance during the summer period.
The piece, which shows a gorilla lifting the shutter to release a sea lion and birds, has been replaced with a replica.
A sign nearby now reads “Banksy woz ere” and offers an apology to disappointed fans of the street artist.
Read More: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/london-zoo-removes-bansky-safekeeping-160602916.html
On August 5, the prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, fled the country, ending her 15-year rule, and the army named a caretaker government to be led by economist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. Over the past several weeks, Bangladeshi students have been met with a deadly government crackdown on rallies against the civil service job quota system. Faced with nationwide curfews and media blackouts, artists stepped up to document the political upheaval and further organize protests, with various cultural institutes voicing their support for the demonstrations.
The protests began in early July after a High Court reinstated a 30 percent quota earmarked for descendants of freedom fighters who were involved in the nation’s 1971 liberation war against Pakistan. (Amid rampant unemployment, the system has long been criticized for favoring supporters of Hasina’s party, the Awami League, to the exclusion of other qualified candidates.) As a result of the government’s violent response to the initially peaceful movement, several student leaders were detained while 300 people were killed, including nearly 100 during the first weekend of August.
