By Dorian Angulo, SWU/South by Southwest Experiment Intern
My workshop on guerilla art focused on the process of constructively conveying provocative social and political ideas to the public.

I began my workshop with talking about the major -isms(such as racism, sexism, classism etc.), followed by a round robin discussion on personal difficulties that derived from these –isms. The next step to the process was to ideate possibilities on how we could use our personal stories as a stepping stone, rather than another obstacle to weigh us down. How can we turn our stories into something creative and beautiful? Through guerilla art we can desensitize people so that they can be more intellectually aware of these –isms that we face in our everyday lives.

I then continued to inform my participants of the various ways we can make guerilla art, such as moss graffiti, homemade stickers, stamps, and seed bombs. These different techniques of guerilla art allow constructive, meaningful, and informative, creativity to flow from the artist to the audience.

I also made it a point to differentiate empty vandalism, from constructive/ thought provoking street art.

A major gain I feel that my participants and I made through this workshop was inspiration and a new found eagerness to be productive and make art that means something to us. At the end of my workshop I was approached by one of my participants and was told that I inspired her to go further with her own street art. Her excitement was incredibly genuine and also inspired me to go further within my efforts to inform and inspire people to be intellectually and emotionally aware of the world we live in today.