ACE - Week 3

After reading both of these articles I had a hard time finding a coherent thought to write about, however, I found a few points in the text relatable in that they helped me identify, and pinpoint a few places where I may be considered “privileged”. My parents are highly educated and well off, my brothers and I never had difficulty making it to school, paying for books, or test. We were able to do all of the activities or experiments that we wanted to. These “privileges” that I have been given in my life have only given me the tools to be a better artist, advocate, and communicator for my self and the people around me. However, race, gender, sex, or income for that matter, ever played a large role in my life then. With that in mind, I can say that I cannot identify with someone who is impoverished, or homeless, or someone who doesn’t have parents. Those are factors which I never have had to deal with. If it were to come to creating art for those people/with those people, I will be there to help make it happen, but I cannot creatively add to that process as I have no connection to the lives that they have lived. On the other hand, if art is being made for the well off, suburban city where I came from I absolutely will add to that conversation as those are people that I relate to.