AOI Discusses: Using Art for Advocacy

AOI Discusses, continues this season, with a session around art and its relationship with advocacy.

From illustrating campaigns and infographics to conversation starting pieces in the public realm, some illustrators have found a wider purpose in their work by utilising their art to push for meaningful change.

We discuss the approaches and experiences of two of our guest speaker-illustrators, working towards active changes through art.

Ananya Rao-Middleton is an award-winning illustrator and a passionate activist for disability rights.

Her impactful artwork serves to illuminate the often-unseen realities of individuals living with disabilities and chronic conditions. She has worked with a number of internationally well-known brands including Instagram, The Guardian, Teen Vogue and Adobe.

Jasmine Hortop is a Cornwall based freelance illustrator and muralist who uses her award-winning artwork to advocate for sustainability, conservation, and a connection to nature.

As well as illustrating on projects with a green focus, Jasmine also self-initiates her own longer immersive and co creation-led creative projects working with non-profits or charitable initiatives.

Her work and advocacy is a direct product of her environment and lifestyle, living on a small organic farm enables a closer connection to nature and the seasons, and she spends her free time either surfing, sea-swimming, helping out on the farm, and volunteering with local coastal and marine conservation projects.

A recording will be sent to all booked attendees after the live event.

NOTE FOR AOI Members: We have a limited number of FREE spaces available for you for the live event. Please sign up as soon as possible to avoid disappointment (details of how can be found in our latest newsletter). We will open a waitlist once these spaces are filled, at which point you can email [email protected] with your membership number if you wish to be added to it. We will send everyone in the list a free recording of the event after 25th April.

Limited General Admission tickets also available.

Accessibility:

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