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The Sacred Art of Ori

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The story of an artist. Laolu Senbanjo grew up surrounded by the culture and mythology of the Yoruba, an ethnic group from the southwest of Nigeria, but he never imagined how it would influence the artist he is today. After…

5 Ways PETA Asia Became an Animal Rights Groundbreaker in China

Practitioner:
PETA Asia

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The world is shocked by China’s dog meat festival and by videos showing that animals are eaten alive in restaurants in Guangdong. But in that country of 1.3 billon people, a massive shift in ideology is happening. Our friends at…

Artists in Seven South American Cities Reflect on Past Dictatorships

Practitioner:
various groups

Date:
Apr 1 2003

*image* Gabriela Golder, “Letters” (photo by Federico Lo Bianco, courtesy Parque de la Memoria) BUENOS AIRES — Dictatorships and armed conflicts have been all too familiar in South America’s recent histories. To take stock of these experiences, in 2016 the…

HANGING KLANSMEN ART INSTALLATION STUNS RICHMOND COMMUNITY

Practitioner:
Indecline

Date:
Apr 1 2003

A Richmond, VA.-based activist group called Indecline has recently installed a street art resistance installation of several hung clown figures dressed like the KKK from a tree in Richmond’s Bryan Park. The same group behind the naked Donald Trump statues…

Brazil’s Most Famous Art Movement Built on Racial Inequality

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The Shifting View on Anthropofagia Tarsila is closely associated with the establishment of the Brazilian art movement known as cultural “cannibalism,” or “Anthropofagia”: the then-radical idea that a truly Brazilian art would emerge by ingesting all the different cultures that…

Artist Replaces Billboards with Photos of the Landscapes They’re Blocking

Practitioner:
Jennifer Bolande

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Visible Distance / Second Sight is an art installation by Jennifer Bolande for DesertX. The temporary artwork can be found along the Gene Autry Trail near Vista Chino (33°50’41.70”N 116°30’21.02”W), where a series of consecutive billboards have been replaced by…

Keith Haring’s AIDS Activism

Practitioner:
Keith Haring

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Keith Haring was an American artist and activist in 1980s New York, whose artwork raised awareness on social issues at the time. One the main awareness campaigns Haring participated on was AIDS awareness and activism. As an openly gay man…

A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender

Practitioner:
Lee Mokobe

Date:
Apr 1 2003

“I was the mystery of an anatomy, a question asked but not answered,” says poet Lee Mokobe, a TED Fellow, in this gripping and poetic exploration of identity and transition. It’s a thoughtful reflection on bodies, and the meanings poured…

Activists lay thousands of shoes outside Capitol for children killed by gun violence

Practitioner:
avaaz

Date:
Apr 1 2003

WASHINGTON — Thousands of shoes were laid outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to represent children who have been killed by gun violence. Avaaz, an international advocacy group, planned the demonstration to honor victims killed since the massacre…

The story behind the strange 8th Ave. subway statues and the cartoons that inspired them

Practitioner:
Tom Otterness

Date:
Apr 1 2003

At the Eighth Avenue subway station, sewer alligators are not an urban legend. Anyone who’s been through the 14th St./Eighth Ave. station has probably seen the bronze gator sculpture — and probably wondered what it means and why it’s there.…

“We Have Our Ways,” a short film directed by Portland filmmaker Dawn Jones Redstone shows ‘activism is a form of love

Practitioner:
Filmmaker Dawn Jones Redstone

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Dawn Jones Redstone’s short film about reproductive justice features women of color leading the resistance. The year is 2023. Health care of any kind is highly inaccessible and in some cases outlawed. Public utilities such as water are privatized and…

NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower Others

Practitioner:
Johanna Toruno

Date:
Apr 1 2003

You’ll find Johanna Toruno on the streets of NYC plastering pictures of her flower-filtered poetry, Kendrick Lamar, and Selena on blank walls, street lights and buildings. When I came across The Unapologetically Brown Series on Instagram I was intrigued not…