The Archives of Sam Swift

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. Cite:  https://www.etonline.com/lebron-james-and-fellow-nba-players-kneel-for-national-anthem-in-black-lives-matter-shirts-as

I think this modern piece of art does a great job representing the enlightenment and how it is portrayed when we look back on it. When we think of the enlightenment, we think of the spread of ideas and how new ideas and ways of thinking can be created and spread like wildfire. Another interpretation that I had was with the gears in each head. The gears are similar but not exactly the same in each head, but then they connect in the middle the gears are the same in order to agree and build off the hypothetical idea or view. I think this represents that no two people think alike but we can meet together and “match gears” to help build off and improve ideas. As an exception, there will be and are always people with completely different “gears” or views and sometimes people won't be able to match up with certain ideas and come to a general consensus. I think that it is important to not feel like everyone has to agree with you to a certain degree and just come to terms with the fact that...

The Enlightenment was a time for people to express new and more effective ideas. This included how society was run and how we thought of us individually and as a whole. Cite:  https://www.thoughtco.com/key-thinkers-of-the-enlightenment-1221868 Infographic:  https://venngage.net/ps/WoILXKY2GU/dark-timeline Citation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tXzPJf3uFC5MsZFwcRCXdPyka-z4t5YMe3aNt1XxoLE/edit?usp=sharing