This class explores how art can function as a tool for political engagement, collective expression, and personal empowerment. Through posters, street art, banners, postcards, and installation-based work, participants will investigate how images and messages circulate in public space and how they can mobilize feeling, solidarity, and action.

Drawing from the instructor’s own artistic practice, the class will examine real-world examples of political art—how it’s made, where it lives, and how it engages audiences beyond traditional art spaces. We will look closely at visual strategies, material choices, and messaging, asking how form, scale, and distribution shape meaning and impact. Participants will experiment with a range of mediums and approaches while developing their own visual language. Emphasis is placed on process, intention, and context rather than perfection. The class encourages risk-taking, conversation, and collaboration, and is designed for those comfortable working in a communal setting where ideas, feedback, and making are shared.

This course welcomes artists interested in using their work to speak outward, to claim space, amplify voices, and create art that helps people feel powerful, seen, and engaged.

What You Will Learn: 
- How political art functions in public and communal spaces
- Strategies for creating effective posters, banners, postcards, and street-based work
- An understanding of scale, repetition, and distribution in political art
- How different materials and mediums affect meaning and impact
- How to work within a communal making environment through discussion and feedback
- How to draw from an artist’s personal practice to develop your own approach to political art