What is your connection to narratives about art literacy?

 

bonding, bridging, and linking

 

When watching a story, specifically one that reflects a person’s literacy, the “reader” should understand Woolcock’s proposition (2014) that people often connect to an artifact in three ways:

 

• bonding – where people feel a strong connection “in similar situations”

• bridging - which “encompasses distant ties”

• linking – which connects “unlike people in dissimilar situations” who are open to other resources (as ctd in Donehowser, p. 100)

 

This understanding of connecting to a narrative by one of these three paths or a combination of the three will help in assessing one’s place within the narrative. This is exactly how literacy affects someone. It is meaningful and guides their life journeys. Always in motion, literacy changes, whether due to culture, politics, or the time period. To keep up with literacy, one must likewise keep varying one’s viewpoint. These narratives show that the viewpoint of these artists sometimes change, morphing to reflect the ever-changing literacy. They too have connected their new paths, or a combination of all three, via bonding, bridging, or linking.

 

In viewing these 5 narratives (below), you will see that each artists' view of literacy is as diverce as the arts themselves. However, the thread that binds them is the fact that each artist found meaning in his or her literacy and that meaning affected the path each artist has taken and the art they create.