@article{Jauk_2021, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Art as Sociology}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/art-as-sociology}, abstractNote={The Art as Sociology!- project was developed for two newly online Introduction to Sociology classes in midst of a global pandemic. A virtual exhibit was published with a selection of the sociological artworks. It accommodates different learning styles and is an outlet for student’s creativity. The goal was to engage students with class material and sociology in a creative, critical and joyful way. Student’s identify a social problem or topic of their interest, are guided to find sociological peer reviewed literature on it and explore one publication more deeply in a traditional article review. Based on this research they create a piece of art and an artist statement for a virtual exhibit. The art projects are explicitly not limited to visual art and can take any form raging from writing, poetry, spoken word, drama, music, installations, video, media and net art, to all forms of visual art including photography, collages, paintings, drawings, etc. Projects are to inform, educate, entertain, demonstrate creativity, and demonstrate novel ways to apply course concepts. An added benefit is, that we can “show” what we do in Introduction to Sociology classes and promote Sociology as creative and accessible discipline on social media. Students are given the possibility to opt out of the online publication of their work. For examples take a look here at the virtual exhibit from Fall 2020: https://da180826.wixsite.com/mysite. }, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Jauk, Daniela}, year={2021}, month={Apr.} }