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What if we regularly spent time making art?

6/8/2016

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What if we regularly spent time making art? This is one of the many questions we asked ourselves and you at the Innovation Convening last month, where we introduced a new art action around our theme of love, sex, family and community. We asked attendees to write down the burning, important questions they have around each of these themes, to share these questions, and then make art around their questions. 
These art playspaces were created in partnership with artists Favianna Rodriguez and Nikki Zaleski (also an alum of both our fellowships) to bring together artists, activists and advocates in artistic exchange and community building, to imagine new futures, explore innovative visions and create new possibilities.

We believe that art and storytelling are part of the work of building a movement – not less than or different from writing proposals or running a program. What if we used art to reflect on and answer our burning questions for the movement?
 
Learn about each of the art activities we participated in at the Innovation Convening, and some of our participants’ reflections on how the activities resonated with them and the conversations it ignited. 
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Love

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“These satchels hold ideas of different ways our hearts have been broken, by the movement, by family, by lovers, by siblings, and what we need to mend and heal. It encouraged storytelling, talking about different experiences whether work related, break up, kids... The words we used modeled trusting each other to talk about these stories and, to share these things.”
-Zakiya Luna | Santa Barbara, CA

Mending our broken hearts with @corealign □ #lovesexfamilycommunity

A photo posted by fdt (@diaz.tello) on May 12, 2016 at 12:36pm PDT

Oh no big deal, just mending our hearts together at the #LoveSexFamilyCommunity conference with @corealign

A photo posted by Nikki Zaleski (@niklynz) on May 12, 2016 at 11:55am PDT


​Sex

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“Thinking about what we learned about sex in the past and what messages we need moving forward to tell ourselves, found a lot of healing and affirmative, unapologetic statements about sex. Sometimes the art opens our imagination for the beginning of imaging that future.”
-Favianna Rodriguez | Oakland, CA

Soul crafting with @corealigning #LoveSexFamilyCommunity pic.twitter.com/TMo4siZiFr

— Alexis H (@alexisahoffman) May 12, 2016

the best way to spend a Thursday morning. #lovesexfamilycommunity

A photo posted by ricky roo (@prettyrickyroo) on May 12, 2016 at 12:24pm PDT

Family

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“We all felt like a family doing our work together. We talked a lot about families and our community, but also the family of activists and what that looks like. Inter-generational and multi-generational work came up a lot, and a lot of juicy words.”
-Marinah Farrell | Phoenix, AZ

#lovesexfamilycommunity

A photo posted by Lauren Zuniga (@laurenbzuniga) on May 12, 2016 at 1:23pm PDT

Digging deeper into what "family" can really mean. .@corealigning .@SisterReach .@NARAL #LoveSexFamilyCommunity pic.twitter.com/5mQcUOaiQx

— Jennifer Warren (@EmeraldQu33n) May 12, 2016

Community

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​“We talked about how we liked the framework of being able to do something with our hands and still talk and get to know each other. Sometimes the intellectual work you do at your desk can be kind of isolating, just getting to be here was a good example of community itself.”
-Lauren Zuniga | Oklahoma City, OK

Leaning into risk with artwork #lovesexfamilycommunity #genuinefrequentcompliments pic.twitter.com/KpCFu8tiSL

— Lisa Stern (@lisafstern) May 12, 2016

Artistic brilliance #lovesexfamilycommunity pic.twitter.com/vpxiOQEh3s

— Alison Lin (@AlisonLin4) May 12, 2016

​We’re bringing these art playspaces to three cities this year to seed collaboration between artists and activists working to support reproductive rights, pleasure, health and justice. Learn more here. 
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