For the sake of art, for
the sake of inclusion
Art was a human expression yesterday, it is
today and it will be tomorrow. “Museums
are being asked to assume new roles and develop new ways of working—in general,
to clarify and demonstrate their social purpose
and more specifically to reinvent themselves as agents of social inclusion.” Say Richard Sandell.
Besides, governments are the entities in charge of promoting art individual and
private projects.
No one
can deny that art has helped ancient and modern civilizations to express
themselves; as from a very single production up to great buildings or monuments.
Art is related to inclusion since ancient times, the great works of humanity
were created by experts but also by ordinary citizens too. Nowadays, gratifies
can be considered a means of communication since they are drawn in order to
transmit a message, to decorate the urban landscape and even to be considered a
piece of art.
If we consider “inclusion is an
organizational practice and goal stemming from the sociological notion of inclusiveness”. Government policies
can spur projects none exclusion of people with no economical resources. Let us
the case of having town holds facilities such as sports, music hall, art
center, open theaters, for every social class; being the more benefits the
lower ones.
Recent
newspaper article confirms the benefits of the use of art as a means of inclusion.
The author, Augustina Esperon studied ten volunteers all of them bricklayers who
made a series of sculptures in order to remodel “the Hotel Casino Carrasco”. The
participants agreed to produced created figures in order to give the Hotel a
new look. The results of this art- inclusion program was a positive attitude
from these men toward the production “I take art as a tool for inclusion. Working
with marginal people, by giving a name, who managed to get ahead, and with
addicts who are fighting back. The art dignifies” say Esperon
Though the case study above reflect inclusion at
the level of economical states, let us bear in mind that inclusion has also to
do with giving the opportunity to groups of different backgrounds “like origin,
age, race and ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation and identity and
other culturally and socially accepted and welcomed, equally treated, etc”. Besides Agustina also claims that “Bricklayers
came, and often not even that, plasterers, , ancient crafts, exquisite. And
they do it very well. "
It is strongly agreed that governmental decisions upon proposing art as
a means of inclusion, expression, communication and production of society is
urged by all social classes but above all it will also help the integration of
both ends.
References
Sendell, R.
(2007). Museums as agents of social inclusion. .(ONLINE) Retrieve from: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/mands4.pdf
Celiz, J. (2013). Preservar, una forma de incluir.(ONLINE) Retrieve from:
