Self-Introduction

 My name is Adrienne Rivera, I’m 21 and majoring in Art Therapy. My goals include obtaining a certification from NJCU for art teaching. My goal is to teach alongside working on a masters in clinical counseling, where I can specialize in art therapy and later open my own practice. Ultimately, I want to work with children and serve my community. I have always been interested in working with 3D materials, and so I am most interested and experienced in ceramics and jewelry. I do mostly wire-wrapping and sea-bead pieces.

6 Quotes

1. Understanding Patriarchy by Bell Hooks

    - “…the normal traumatization of boys. To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.” (22)

    -“Patriarchy demands of men that they become and remain emotional cripples. Since it is a system that denies men full access to their freedom of will, it is difficult for any man of any class to rebel against patriarchy, to be disloyal to the patriarchal parent, be that parent female or male.” (27)

    -“Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist write supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter itself is a weapon of patriarchal terrorism. It functions as a disclaimer, discounting the significance of what is being named.” (29)

2. What Memes Owe to Art History

    - “Memes offer a highly accessible and interactive platform of production that is ripe for challenge and dissent, with disagreements and controversy only fueling the fire of a successful meme truly going viral. 

    -““Memes aren’t an innocent process— they carry serious political weight, and not always of the activist variety.” Wrestler said, citing the website 4chan’s policies board and other alt right cyber-communities where hate speech has festered in the form of memes.”

3. Memes are Our Generation’s Protest Art

    - “Most people interact with these images in fleeting ways as they scroll through their feeds, but creating or consuming political memes that align with one’s point of view can be therapeutic. They reflect what’s happening in society, and help justify feelings of rage and fear while helping us feel less alone.”

    - ““You can express yourself with one picture of a meme better than a whole page of text” Alan Schafer, the CEO of image-hosting site Imgur, told Vice, “They’re easy to create, reuse, remix. And what makes them works so well is that they’re so relatable. They make us laugh but have the ability to connect us around a common feeling.”