This is day 5 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Today’s challenge is to create something inspired by the word cacoethes. Media is artist’s choice. Can be pencil, digital collage, or assemblage live alligators.
Cacoethesnoun: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable. (kak-oh/uh-WEE-theez)
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #cacoethes
Our printmaking instructor Nikki Barber has been printing posters in her basement for protest rallies and marches. “I feel responsible to stand up for my friends who are Black and my friends who are Brown, since I white-pass so easily, but am not white.” Nikki has been active in the social, political, and art in …
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Day 5: Cacoethes #30SAL
This is day 5 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Today’s challenge is to create something inspired by the word cacoethes. Media is artist’s choice. Can be pencil, digital collage, or assemblage live alligators.
Cacoethes noun: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable. (kak-oh/uh-WEE-theez)
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #cacoethes
Or post to today’s Padlet page.
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