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    Canadian artist Brian Jungen uses ordinary objects like Nike sneakers to create works of art and pay tribute to his indigenous heritage. He transforms Air Jordans into traditional aboriginal masks, using the shoes' red, white, and black colors which are also traditional Haida colors. American artist Faith Ringgold collaborated with MoMA and Vans to design a sneaker collection highlighting her experiences with racism, with the quote "My mother said I'd have to work twice as hard to go half as far" printed on the shoes. Virgil Abloh is a designer and artist who started collecting sneakers as a child and now owns over 1,500 pairs; he considers his deconstructed Air Jordan designs for N

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    Canadian artist Brian Jungen uses ordinary objects like Nike sneakers to create works of art and pay tribute to his indigenous heritage. He transforms Air Jordans into traditional aboriginal masks, using the shoes' red, white, and black colors which are also traditional Haida colors. American artist Faith Ringgold collaborated with MoMA and Vans to design a sneaker collection highlighting her experiences with racism, with the quote "My mother said I'd have to work twice as hard to go half as far" printed on the shoes. Virgil Abloh is a designer and artist who started collecting sneakers as a child and now owns over 1,500 pairs; he considers his deconstructed Air Jordan designs for N

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    Canadian artist Brian Jungen uses ordinary objects like Nike sneakers to create works of art and pay tribute to his indigenous heritage. He transforms Air Jordans into traditional aboriginal masks, using the shoes' red, white, and black colors which are also traditional Haida colors. American artist Faith Ringgold collaborated with MoMA and Vans to design a sneaker collection highlighting her experiences with racism, with the quote "My mother said I'd have to work twice as hard to go half as far" printed on the shoes. Virgil Abloh is a designer and artist who started collecting sneakers as a child and now owns over 1,500 pairs; he considers his deconstructed Air Jordan designs for N

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    UNIT 2 – I AM A SNEAKERHEAD

    STEP 3 – FROM THE SIDEWALK TO THE MUSEUM

    Brian Jungen is a leading Canadian artist from


    Native American ancestry. His artistic expression is
    based on First Nations identity, on poetry, but also on
    inequality and consumerism. He graduated with a
    diploma in Visual Art in 1992, and then studied art
    history. He uses ordinary everyday objects to turn
    them into works of art and pay tribute to his origins.
    He was inspired both by watching his relatives
    recycle objects and by his indigenous heritage.

    The artist used Nike Air Jordans to make up


    traditional aboriginal masks. The red, white and black
    colours of Nike Air Jordans are the same traditional
    colours of the Haida, an Indigenous people of the
    Pacific Northwest coast, with whom Jungen shares
    ancestry. He has exhibited his work in art galleries
    and museums, both in Canada and the US.
    A mask made of Nike sneakers by Canadian artist
    Brian Jungen, 2020
    Faith Ringgold is a New York artist born in 1930
    in Harlem. She grew up in an artistic environment and
    later on she studied art in college. She has been
    influenced by poetry and music. Her art is extremely
    varied : from painting and sculptures to children’s
    books.

    She collaborated with, among other artistsn the


    MoMa and Vans to design a sneaker collection : the
    Faith Ringgold Era Sneakers. Her work also highlights
    her experiences with racism and social injustice : ‘My
    mother said I’d have to work twice as hard to go half as
    far.’ This quote is printed on the pair of the Vans
    sneakers midsole.
    MoMa and Vans Faith Ringgold Era
    Sneakers, 2020
    Virgil Abloh is a multifaceted American
    artist : a designer, artist and DJ. He is the
    creative director of Off-White and Louis Vuitton
    men’s collections. He was born in 1980. He
    started collecting sneakers as a child and now
    owns about 1,500 pairs. An exhibition of
    Abloh’s work opened at the Museum of
    Contemporary Art in Chicago in 2019. It shows
    his interests from Renaissance painting to the
    deconstructeds Air Jordans he created for Nike,
    which he considered as a work of art.
    According to him, sneakers link you to
    Virgil Abloh’s exhibition, ‘Figures of Speech’, your childhood and your parents, to your first
    Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2019 pair. Theys tir emotion. He also believes they are
    part of Black culture. He founded a scholarship
    to make sure there is more diversity in design,
    and to open up doors to artistic creation.
    I. A new form of art

    1. Focus on the photographs and captions. Use the following prompts to describe them orally :
     What strikes me… / What I find surprising… / I didn’t know that… / I would never have
    imagined that… / On the one hand… on the other hand….

    2. Read the texts and find out the reasons for these artists’ interest in sneakers and say how their art
    defines their identity.

    Artists Reason for their interest in sneakers Defining their identity : sources of artistic inspiration

    Brian Jungen

    Faith Ringgold

    Virgil Abloh

    II. Your task

    1. Choose one of thoses three artists and get as much information as you can about them
    (their background, their studies, their art, their relation to sneakers)

    2. Prepare a short presentation (three slides)

    3. Present the artist you have chosen to the group next lesson

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