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"Rosas" By Juan Torres, Julia V. Stakhnevich

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Voices Of Hope: Designing Social Change, Donald Tarallo

Presidential Fellows Program

Proposal Abstract:

If awarded this fellowship, I will devote my time to employ graphic design toward creating positive social change for youth living in the underprivileged neighborhoods of Providence, Rhode Island. The change my project will embody addresses a paradigm shift taking place in the graphic design community as the focus moves from design as a practice that fuels a market to the awareness that graphic design is a social practice and that it can be vehicle for powerful and sustainable social change. This effort will inform my teaching, resulting in a model for art and design education addressing social …

Designing Social Change: Inquiry-Based Teaching In Graphic Design, Donald Tarallo

Art and Art History Faculty Publications

This paper shares an exploratory and inquiry-based graphic design project and the resultant pedagogic approach that offers arts and design educators ideas on teaching to instigate positive social change. The author summarizes a year-long fellowship project where he worked as a change agent in service to a partnership of six non-profit, after-school arts programs in Providence, Rhode Island who are organized as the Providence Youth Arts Collaborative (PYAC).

The intention of this project was two-fold. The primary effort was to investigate ways graphic design can be strategically used to seed interest and empower youth to make positive choices with how …

The Bridge, Volume 10, 2013, Bridgewater State University

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Volume 10 Staff
Ryan Dipetta, Editor-in-chief, Literature
Alexa Noé, Editor-in-chief, Art & Design
Kacy Blais
Meaghan Casey
Gabriella Diniz
Brett French
Andrew Laverty
Jessica Melendy
William Regan
Lee Anne Wentzell
Kate Camerlin, Consultant
Caytlin Buckle, Consultant

Melanie Joy McNaughton, Faculty Advisor
John Mulrooney, Faculty Advisor