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#DearMe

From Variety: YouTube launched a campaign with the hashtag #DearMe — encouraging users to upload “video letters” with advice to their younger selves, aimed at helping girls deal with problems — and within an hour it became the No. 1…

Pimp My Carroça

Practitioner:
Mundano, The Pimp My Carroça Project

With the intention of recognizing the work of the Latin American carreteros (garbage pickers) that collect recyclable materials in wheel carts, and increase environmental consciousness, artist Mundano created “Pimp My Carroça” The brazilian graffiti artist started pimping carrocas years ago…

Orixás

Practitioner:
Hugo Canuto

Imagine if back in the 1960s, creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had found inspiration for The Avengers in Yoruba mythology. Instead of Iron Man, we’d have the warrior Oxaguiã. Taking the place of the blue-eyed, blonde-haired Norse god Thor…

Paddling Home

Practitioner:
Kasey Wong

From Public Delivery: Kacey Wong has a knack for creating art that investigates the space between people and their surrounding environment. Paddling Home, which was performed on the Hong Kong Victoria Harbor, was a star feature in the Hong Kong…

NFL-Indigenous activists to protest Kansas City Chiefs name, ‘tomahawk chop’

Practitioner:
Native American groups (not specified)

Native American groups are expected to protest the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, calling for the AFC champions to drop their name and logo as they take on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 57. The Chiefs wear the arrowhead…

Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in ‘haunting’ photo

Practitioner:
Ai Wei Wei

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has recreated the image of drowned infant Alan Kurdi that in 2015 became the defining symbol of the plight of Syria’s refugees. For the recreation, Ai lay on a pebbled beach on the Greek…

1,100 Body Bags Line National Mall For Action to Curb Gun Violence

Practitioner:
March for Our Lives

Over 1100 black “body bags” fanned out over a section of grass on the National Mall in Washington D.C. on March 24 in a plea for sanity. Each represented roughly 150 individuals who have died from gun violence since the…

Nan Goldin’s “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” Showcases the Artist’s Defiant Activism

Practitioner:
Laura Poitras, Nan Goldin

Laura Poitras’s Academy Award–nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) about photographer Nan Goldin is a powerful and thoughtfully constructed film. Focusing on Goldin’s work with the activist group Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (PAIN), it allows viewers to…

Donate an hour

Practitioner:
Plan B

Prison inmates in Mexico have suffered from coronavirus infections at a higher rate than the country as a whole, and pandemic lockdowns have reduced their already limited contact with the outside world. But one group of women inmates at a…

Cloud Studies

Practitioner:
Forensic Architecture

Forensic Architecture’s Cloud Studies is a project that investigates the impact of toxic clouds on colonised and oppressed communities. The clouds, originating from sources like tear gas, industrial emissions, chemical weapons, and forest fires, often go unaddressed due to doubt…

Watch Your Artists Grow

Practitioner:
Great Bend Schools

For the past 20 years, Great Bend school district art teachers have been letting their students collaborate on an art project at the Barton County Historical Society Museum. This year, they will ground their efforts in working together to make…

Freedom of Information

Practitioner:
IOANA (Ioana Urma)

Located within Boston’s historic (brick) core, and using the history of Boston as example, this kinetic, site-specific, public art installation is a humorous commentary on our use and trust of the internet for learning. The project makes tangible (physical), and…