Everyone Is an Artist is a printed poster that is distributed free to demystify the art-making process; it has step-by-step
instructions, making art available, accessible and achievable. Once understood, the same techniques can be applied to
various media, freeing the mind to create with simple and unpretentious materials.
Usually the project is set up as a group effort, creating a synergy toward a single goal, achieving camaraderie and enriching life. The project is a catalyst to art-making at home with family and friends. The idea came about during my teaching
experience, from the need to create a teaching syllabus for my use and possibly the benefit of others too.
DIY concepts change our relationship to commercial products and our perspective on mass production. DIY has gained
momentum largely as a result of our greatly enhanced access to tools and information, which I plan to use. DIY also enables uniqueness in the things we own. It also gives rise to a number of media outlets for sharing experience; the wealth of
resources has become a self-sustaining treasure chest growing at an exponential rate: my project included.
Joseph Beuys’ famous slogan, “Everyone Is an Artist,” was not meant to suggest that all people should or could be creators of traditional artworks. Rather, he meant that we should not see creativity as the special realm of artists, but that everyone should apply creative thinking in their own areas of specialization. Beuys imagined that an expanded application of human creativity—and the broader definition of “art” that would follow—would result in something he called “social sculpture.” While the term encompassed many things for Beuys, it might broadly be defined as a conscious act of shaping, of bringing some aspect of the environment—whether the political system, the economy, or a classroom—from a chaotic state into a state of form, or structure. Social sculpture should be accomplished cooperatively, creatively, and across disciplines.
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