Unfortunately, I was not able to attend this lunchtime lecture, but it sounded so cool. John Freyer, who has now been sober for numerous years, talked about some of his social practice art. A few examples being Free Ice Water, Free Hot Coffee, and Free Supper. These are all all apart of 50/50. From what I understand, Freyer's goal is to lessen the stigma around drug addicts and their sobriety through these social practice arts. To accomplish this. he works with a lot of youth, mainly through a VCU recovery program. All of this sounds so cool and really meaningful. I think the idea behind his work is so important, and his art is actually making a difference. To be completely honest, I did not really know much about social practice art before learning about John Freyer, but this has really opened my eyes to a whole other area of art. Since I was not able to attend this lecture, I hope to continue researching Freyer and other social practice art to learn more.
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I have to say, this was probably one of my favorite field trips our class has taken. I loved all of the pieces, but also had the opportunity to learn a great deal about the gallery as a whole, the artists, and the individual pieces. Since the collection is private, we had the privilege of having the gallery to our self and having someone there with knowledge about each individual piece. I really feel like I got more out of this experience than I usually do at museums etc. We did not have the time to look at each piece (the collection was huge), but still got to see a great deal of it. A few of my favorite artists we looked at were the Philadelphia Wireman and Sonya Clark, both because of their story, content, and aesthetics. Here are a few of the works we had the opportunity to take a closer look at.
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