I feel that I learned a lot more than I had expected to in fulfilling my Global Citizenship goals. I wanted to focus on the first learning goal: evaluating social issues and identifying instances and examples of global injustice and disparity. I thought that I was going to have to search for and interpret works that were subtly suggesting social change or injustice, but instead, I discovered entire collections and exhibits dedicated to strong comments on social injustice, such as Agitprop! in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It was very interesting to see how each issue was represented, not just in a painting or sculpture, but through multimedia efforts, utilizing videos, posters, papers, and handouts. In viewing, analyzing, and discussing these exhibits with my peers, I also engaged in another learning goal: to discuss and interpret world issues and events. For this goal, it was very easy to act on all of my methods because I enjoyed staying in front of the pieces and absorbing them, as well as revisiting them later and posting about them on Instagram or my WordPress. In the museums, I made an effort to seek out these exhibits for the purpose of my project, going to them first before another piece or collection I was interested in. This made me realize how self-motivated activism really is because even though it is available to us, we must realize it and seek it out, despite other things we could be doing that are easier or less rewarding. Continue reading →