Music, Art + Literature: Responding to Oppression Workshop

 

 

 

Music, Art + Literature Creations

A collection of art and music by participants in workshop exercises
focusing on art, music, and literature that were created under time constraints and content limitations.

Please view the collection of writings by our workshop participants.

Below are samples of their visual art.

ELIJAH CUMMINGS YOUTH PROGRAM IN ISRAEL
Baltimore, Maryland, May 2023

The “L” stands for the simplicity of love.

The “O” is the heart and represents the many shapes and colors of love.

The “V” represents how love brings two together.

The “E” represents the bond of love.

ELIJAH CUMMINGS YOUTH PROGRAM IN ISRAEL
Baltimore, Maryland, March 2022

CZECH EMBASSY
October 5, 2019

This was a workshop held during the embassy’s celebration of the Velvet Revolution (1989) and
on Václav Havel’s birthday, October 5th. 

JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
Artists from ANATABAN and I AM PEACE
Students from PROMISED LAND SECONDARY SCHOOL and CROWN THE WOMAN, June 2019

(please note:  these participants experienced more limitations than our other workshops, using only paper and pen)

THE ARTS INSTITUTE AND THE PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT
MONTGOMERY COLLEGE, ROCKVILLE, MD

Students from “Make Art Not War” Workshop, November 2018

WILTON CENTER, NH
Adults and Performing Arts Students from Andy’s Summer Playhouse Workshop, July 2018

PITTSBURGH, PA
Eighth Grade Students from Mt. Lebanon Mellon Middle School Workshop, November 2017

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
High School Teachers at The Jewish Museum of Maryland, August 2016