AtAP Brainstorm- How Sports is Using Art to Support the BLM Movemnet
As I continue to brainstorm for this major project relating art to current events I was to look at the different ways that sports has used art combined with its platform to support the Black Lives Matter movement. As an avid sports fan I think this is a great connection to a current event and is also something that I am very interested in. One of my favorite NBA players, Lebron James, has used many forms of art to support the movement and I would love to do more research to see what other players and organizations are doing and how they are using art to push the movement into the forefront. I think this will be very interesting to do as well because this is an ongoing event and new forms of art will pop up over the semester so I can analyze how the art was presented at the start versus the finish.
This makes me think of the art featured on many of the players' shirts and overall clothing as they walk into the areas before games. I agree that these stars' voices are important in this movement. I'm interested to see what art forms you end up focusing on in your project; I think it would be great to reference sports figures as part of your introduction and perhaps connected to some art in the critical analyses, but I also think forms such as music would be interesting to explore in regards to this topic!
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