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Madalyn Walsh Design
Art Educator. Designer. Artist.
Artistic Intervention
Artistic Intervention is an extension of site-specific art. It plays of existing structures, artworks, or venue.
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Created in collaboration with Valerie Laplaca and Paige Short, we began an investigation of sexual assault on college campuses. We were studying artful interruption and wanted to create a way to educate our peers on college sexual assault and guide survivors towards The University of Georgia and Athens, Georgia resources. We developed posters that we distributed downtown Athens which used QR codes for easy access to resources. We also created a Snap Chat filter which encouraged awareness in the downtown setting.
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Valerie Laplaca and I presented our research findings at the Art and Education for Social Justice Symposium in February 2020 and our corresponding artwork was featured in The University of Georgia's Glass Gallery
As an interactive part of our intervention project, we create a SnapChat filter. The filter was available within a 200' radius of Church Bar, where employees reported multiple cases of sexual assault.
A map of the area cover (left)
Athens residents using the filter (above)
We hung up over 30 posters around downtown Athens. We then returned a few days later to where we hung our posters and recorded which establishments took down our intervention.
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