7pm lecture

The eighth lecture of this school year, was given by a guy who focused on community. The lecture included him telling us about his life starting from when he was a child to the present. He stated that no one in his family had any artistic ability, so him going to college and studying biology seemed normal, but him focusing on the side doing spray paint art seemed strange.

He eventually finished college and went to the west coast and started to do political graffiti in neighborhood that were being effected by the political decisions of the government. He started to work with a friend of his who was an oil painter and they created a painting showing political issues and they hung it up around the "ghettos" of California. The first morning of display there would be a front page spread of the image and describing its meaning.

Now he works with communities with histories of racial change and dramatic racial issues. He tries to inform the neighborhood around the central area of historical, and present issues. He does so by using art. He tries to pull the community together to work on large drawings and paintings, where all the students are creating art work.

The lecture was excedingly long, and boring. And the guy repeated him self multiple times, and didn't answer the questions that people asked with an answer that would actually answer the question. He focused only on racial distinctions and seperations, he made it so that every white person in there was exceptionally uncomfortable.