Porfolio EE4: Entry 10

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.