The Creative Instigator's Handbook: A DIY Guide to Making Social Change through

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From the co-creator of the seminal craftivism book Yarn Bombing: a guide for creatives to make impactful, socially engaged art projects.

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Flash mobs come and go, but purposeful creativity can change communities. Are you a creative (aspiring or otherwise) who is curious about how you can apply your skills to activist, socially engaged art projects? Whether you paint, sew, sing, build, weld, or rhyme, The Creative Instigator's Handbook explores how to take that big project you've been dreaming about and actually make it a happen.In response to the challenging times that we live in, The Creative Instigator's Handbook will inspire readers to use their creativity to spur change in the world around them. Guiding readers through the various aspects of a project from ideation to final documentation, the book examines the relationship between creative leadership, community art projects, and social justice, and includes the perspectives of 23 creative instigators who have stretched the boundaries of what "art" should or shouldn't do.Bold and imaginative, The Creative Instigator's Handbook will appeal to creatives willing to expand their comfort zone by jumping into the fray and doing some outrageous, inspired rabble-rousing of their very own.

Author Biography

Leanne Prain helps communities connect through creative ideas. A writer, speaker and certified design professional, her previous books include Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet & Knit Graffiti (with Mandy Moore), and Strange Material: Storytelling through Textiles.

Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1: Calling All Creative Instigators * Living in A Material World: Thomas Dambo (Copenhagen, Denmark) * The Personal and the Political: Aram Han Sifuentes (Chicago) Chapter 2: Find Your Voice * Making the Revolution Irresistible: Shanalee Hampton (Portland, OR) * Be Mighty: Changing the World One Flyer at a Time (New York City) * Yours Truly: Meg Lewis (Minneapolis) Chapter 3: What's Your Calling? * Desperate Times, Creative Measures: Tiny Pricks Project (Victoria, Canada) * We All Want to Fly: Global Angel Wings Project (Los Angeles) Chapter 4: Co-conspirators Unite! * Birds of a Feather: Mustaali Raj and Minahil Bukhari (Vancouver, Canada) * A Chance to Play: Hot One Inch Action (Vancouver, Canada) * The Evolution of the Red Dress Awareness Campaign and Installation (Comox Valley, Canada) * The Spirit of the Animals is in the Wheels: Juan Martinez (Detroit) & Dave Eggers (San Francisco) Chapter 5: The More You Know * Radical Hospitality: Sara Clugage (New York) * Reimaging Public Space: Alley-Oop (Vancouver and Edmonton, Canada) * Material Matters: Katherine Soucie (London, UK) Chapter 6: Practice Makes Perfect * Shoot for the Moon: Luke Jerram (Bristol, UK) * One Book at a Time: The Free Little Library Project (Hudson, WI) Chapter 7: Make It Wonderous * Before I Die: Candy Chang (Chicago/New Orleans) * Creativity is Not Enough: The Center for Artistic Activism (New York state) Chapter 8: Be Your Own Megaphone * The Quarantine Quilt Project: Significant Seams * With Chaos Comes Opportunity: Kevin Spenst (Vancouver, Canada) * The Poetry Society of New York: Stephanie Berger (Devon, UK) Chapter 9: The Pivot * Shared Stories: The Brooklyn Art Library (Brooklyn) * Meet Me Halfway: The Heidelberg Project (Detroit) Chapter 10: A Legend in the Making * The Collaborative Collective: The Projet Mobilivre-Bookmobile Project (Montreal/New York/Philadelphia)

Long Description

Flash mobs come and go, but purposeful creativity can change communities. Are you a creative (aspiring or otherwise) who is curious about how you can apply your skills to activist, socially engaged art projects? Whether you paint, sew, sing, build, weld, or rhyme, The Creative Instigator's Handbook explores how to take that big project you've been dreaming about and actually make it a happen. In response to the challenging times that we live in, The Creative Instigator's Handbook will inspire readers to use their creativity to spur change in the world around them. Guiding readers through the various aspects of a project from ideation to final documentation, the book examines the relationship between creative leadership, community art projects, and social justice, and includes the perspectives of 23 creative instigators who have stretched the boundaries of what "art" should or shouldn't do. Bold and imaginative, The Creative Instigator's Handbook will appeal to creatives willing to expand their comfort zone by jumping into the fray and doing some outrageous, inspired rabble-rousing of their very own.

Review Quote

A colourful guide that highlights people already using art for activism while laying out steps for readers to begin their own journey toward social change. - Vancouver Sun

Description for Sales People

* Make It Meaningful is a book for aspiring and established creatives (artists, crafters, makers) on how to make socially engaged street art and crafts that speak to the issues of the day, from politics to social justice to the environment. Uplifting and modifying the age-old tradition of protest art and crafts, this book includes advice, inspiration, and suggestions for contemporary creative instigators; it encourages them to think about how they can take their creative skills and apply them to projects with collaborators with the intent of making change in the world. * The book also profiles of some of today's most compelling artists working in the field, including Diana Weymar of the Tiny Pricks Project, a public art project that used embroidery and needlepoint to capture President Trump's most egregious falsehoods; the Red Dress Awareness campaign, a traveling art installation of red dresses on clothelines to bring attention to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in North America; and The Spirit of the Animals is in the Wheels, a fleet of pedal-powered animals created by Juan Martinez and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers that transports kids in Detroit and other urban centers to after-school literacy and tutoring centers, in the belief that artwork should live and work in the community, not only in galleries. * The book includes several full-color photographs of various art projects insitu. * Leanne conceived of the book prior to the pandemic but wrote most of it during the world-wide quarantine in 2020. As we emerge from the pandemic, Leanne says that she and most of the artists included in the book feel that the role of participatory art in our culture is all the more crucial and necessary: "There was a lot of fear expressed in my conversations with artists [during the pandemic], but overall, one theme that stood out was that they all knew that they needed to continue to make something to connect with other people." * Leanne Prain is the co-author of Yarn Bombing (2009), considered a seminal book on the "knit graffiti" phenomenon that continues to this day. The original book was a bestseller and featured on the front page of the New York Times' style section; an updated tenth-anniversary edition was published in 2019. Leanne is also the author of two other Arsenal titles: Strange Material (on activist textiles) in 2014, and Hoopla (on unorthodox crochet) 2011 (now out of print).

Details ISBN1551528754 Author Leanne Prain Short Title Make It Meaningful Publisher Arsenal Pulp Press Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1551528754 ISBN-13 9781551528755 Imprint Arsenal Pulp Press Pages 264 Place of Publication Vancouver Country of Publication Canada Format Hardcover UK Release Date 2022-10-06 Subtitle A DIY Guide to Making Social Change through Art DEWEY 701.03 Audience General AU Release Date 2022-05-31 Publication Date 2022-10-06 Illustrations 1 Illustrations We've got this

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