Care Matters: Media Tools for Urban Kinship

Spring 2021 Youth Artist Project with Artist-in-Residence Mark Anthony Hernández Motaghy

April 7 - June 19, 2021

Care Matters: Media Tools for Urban Kinship is taught by Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Mark Anthony Hernández Motaghy, who works between architecture, urbanism, art, and new media.

This Urbano Y.A.P. focuses on the agency of printed matter in public spaces in this moment of crisis and its capacity to circulate messages of care and solidarity. As a collaborative experiment in building self/collective care through workshops and reading discussions focused on art and media, the course invites Youth Artists to create/publish posters and a collective zine incorporating drawing, typography, graphic design, mapping, and independent publishing practices

Focus areas:

1) Caring for the self. Audre Lorde once stated that "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

2) Caring for the collective. We will look at mutual aid groups, on-the-ground organizations, and art/media and their roles in uplifting social movements.

3) Art and publishing as a political act—one that can reimagine our networks of care and kinship in the city.