Joel Bergner …. Global artist, educator & advocate for social change
@joelartista
From the streets of Brooklyn to Syrian refugee camps; the favelas of Brazil to rural Ugandan settlements; shanty towns in India to prisons in the US and the UK, Joel has collaborated with youth, families and artists across 30 countries to create murals that reflect the resilience and stories of their communities. As CEO and Co-Founder of Artolution, a non-profit organization, Joel supports local artists to lead sustainable arts programs with vulnerable children in their communities year-round.
From the desert camps of Jordan, to the Favala’s of Brazil, into the communities of New York Joel connects the world through Art.
Artolution
“Artolution is focused on developing local leaders in the arts to use collaborative art-making as a tool for communities to share their stories with the world”.
Meet our Co-Founders
Since 2008, co-founders Max Frieder and Joel Bergner—first independently and later jointly— have led hundreds of Artolution community-based public art projects around the world. Artolution became incorporated as a non-profit corporation in 2016 with a focus on developing sustainable programs in communities where we have been active, to be facilitated by local artists trained by Frieder and Bergner.
Joel and Max bring their work to Australia and meet The Global Write Founder – Bronwyn Joyce
Plant The Seed - Unpack Your Thinking
Harvard Project Zero Thinking Routines Toolbox
What Makes You Say That?
This routine cultivates observation, description, explanation-building, and evidence-based reasoning. Because students share their interpretations, they are encouraged to see multiple perspectives.
Look at the Mural
What’s going on?
What do you see that makes you say that?
Let's Write
Prompt 1
100 Word Challenge
Look closely! Use the picture and write a piece in just 100 words. You can write a story, a description or even a persuasive piece. Be creative and see what magic you can produce in just 100 words. Upload your writing to The Global Write Wakelet Gallery.
WHO IS THIS CHILD?
Prompt 2
Breshna empowers everyone to create their own video games.
Make your own video game with no code.
Create your own game using the work of Joel Bergner. Review his and the Artolution websites and teach people about how Joel is using art to change the world.
Prompt 3
Create a Mural
Using one fo the Sustainable Goals think about how you could represent a story connected to you, your community or the world. Examine Joel’s art and how he tells stories through picture. You can create you story digitally, as a painting or as a sketch. Your choices are endless.
Be sure to share your art piece on The Global Write Wakelet.
See this great example, thanks to Artolution
The Global Write Wakelet
Joel Bergner, Changing the World Through Art
