This week we meet with Maria Gaspar, an artist deeply invested in her community on the west side of Chicago. For her assignment, she asks YOU to engage with invisible spaces in YOUR community. Here are your instructions:
1. Choose a location that is visible to you but seemingly invisible to others 2. Think about this location and what it represents 3. Use your body to create an intervention that creates a new story of that location 4. Take a photo + upload using #theartassignment 5. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)
Learn more about Maria's work: http://mariagaspar.com/ *CORRECTION: The untitled photographs of Maria and murals were made in 2009, not 2011. Apologies!
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