Art for Change Documentary
ArtCorps is a dynamic social enterprise using the arts to advance sustainable development. Each year, ArtCorps sends volunteer professional artists to work with Central American NGOs. During their one- to two- year placements, the artists train the organizations in the use of the arts as a tool for social change, educating and inspiring people to participate actively in improving the environmental, health and social conditions in their communities. Since 1999, ArtCorps has sent 39 artists from around the world to train more than 20 different organizations in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in the ArtCorps Art for Social Action methodology, resulting in more effective communication of their messages. The ArtCorps toolkit has helped partner organizations reach and engage over 50,000 people in more than 180 communities.
I am currently living in El Salvador, and traveling to each of the communities where artists are working with local communities to educate, inspire and create lasting memory of the power of Art in all its forms. ArtCorps found these artists from around the world and selected them based on their experience with community work, education work, artistic style and dedication to spreading ideas through the arts. I have already worked with each artist and am spending all of 2010 getting to know these amazing artists even more. I am being brought into a world of incredible depth and enormity that I had never fully seen before. I hope that my journey during this year will be as inspiring to others as it will be and already has been to me.
ArtCorps is a dynamic social enterprise using the arts to advance sustainable development. Each year, ArtCorps sends volunteer professional artists to work with Central American NGOs. During their one- to two- year placements, the artists train the organizations in the use of the arts as a tool for social change, educating and inspiring people to participate actively in improving the environmental, health and social conditions in their communities. Since 1999, ArtCorps has sent 39 artists from around the world to train more than 20 different organizations in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in the ArtCorps Art for Social Action methodology, resulting in more effective communication of their messages. The ArtCorps toolkit has helped partner organizations reach and engage over 50,000 people in more than 180 communities.
I am currently living in El Salvador, and traveling to each of the communities where artists are working with local communities to educate, inspire and create lasting memory of the power of Art in all its forms. ArtCorps found these artists from around the world and selected them based on their experience with community work, education work, artistic style and dedication to spreading ideas through the arts. I have already worked with each artist and am spending all of 2010 getting to know these amazing artists even more. I am being brought into a world of incredible depth and enormity that I had never fully seen before. I hope that my journey during this year will be as inspiring to others as it will be and already has been to me.
Pau Urgell from Barcelona is working in San Marcos, within Pico Bonito National Park to bring social action to this community through the arts. He is a musician and graphic artist and is working with Bosques Pico Bonito, an NGO aimed at the development of communities within the park to help them use new methods in the arts to achieve their goals and missions.
Caterina Admiral is a visual artist from Barcelona who is working with Pau Urgell in Pico Bonito National Park to bring social action initiatives to community members through her experience and skills in the arts as well as to teach her partner NGO, Bosques Pico Bonito methods which she uses to inspire change through creativity.
Monica Gutierez, a Canadian - Colombian visual artist is working in El Nance, a rural community in the Yoro Valley of Honduras. She is working with youth on various projects such as radio shows and theatre productions in order to provoke interest and enthusiasm in social and environmental issues.
