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Project Impact
Read more: Project ImpactBy Lauren Hersh, with Katie Cappiello, Artistic Director, The Arts Effect. It’s dark outside, 20 degrees, and we’ve taken to Super Bowl Boulevard in NYC with a team of teen girls who are passionate about ending modern day slavery. They’ve…
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Putting a Stop to Supermodel Minnie Mouse
Read more: Putting a Stop to Supermodel Minnie MouseWhen Disney and Barneys partnered together to create a runway-ready Minnie Mouse, outrage ensued from size and body acceptance activists claiming that the new Minnie Mouse was too skinny. Ragen Chastain, a leader in the Health at Every Size movement,…
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War Drags You Out
Read more: War Drags You OutWar Drags You Out is a project by artist “Saint Hoax” looking at the similarities between defining characteristics of Drag Queens and Political Leaders. Text from St. Hoax’s website: “After attending a drag show for the first time, I was…
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Putting It All On The Table
Read more: Putting It All On The TableThe following description is taken from an article that appeared on the unreasonable.is website (see link below): on January 24, 2014, a gallery exhibit opened in New York for the express purpose of inspiring people to think differently about food,…
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Avatar in Bil’in
Read more: Avatar in Bil’inBil’in is a Palestinian village located 12 kilometres west of the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank. In 2005, the Israeli government began constructing the security barrier in the Bil’in area, and since then approximately 55 percent of…
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Silent River Film Festival
Read more: Silent River Film FestivalCinema is a popular medium for people to escape the real world. It provides comedy, drama, and endless entertainment. But Kalpna Singh-Chitnis saw an even greater potential for film. She believed that this art form could be utilized as a…
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“Are You Doing All Right?”
Read more: “Are You Doing All Right?”The following description is taken from the website of Aljazeera America (find link below): In early December, Ju Hyun-u, a student at South Korea’s elite Korea University, taped up two white sheets filled with his handwriting on a campus bulletin…
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Graffiti on the West Bank Barrier
Read more: Graffiti on the West Bank BarrierIn June 2002, the Israeli Government decided to construct a physical barrier separating Israel and the West Bank. The declared purpose of this (as yet unfinished) 709 kilometers long barrier—which came to be known as Gader Ha’hafrada (The Separation Wall)—was…
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Standing Man at Gezi Park
Read more: Standing Man at Gezi ParkThe 2013 protests in Turkey started on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the urban development plan for Istanbul’s Taksim Gezi Park. The protests were sparked by outrage at the violent eviction of a sit-in at the park protesting the…
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Uncle Sam’s Cultural Dissonance
Read more: Uncle Sam’s Cultural DissonanceUncle Sam’s Cultural Dissonance looks at the issues facing The United States, including Canada and Mexico. In countries like the United States, where some states are dotted with countless lakes and many people live within easy reach of an ocean,…
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Joey Skaggs and Santa’s Missile Tow
Read more: Joey Skaggs and Santa’s Missile TowOn November 13, 2012, Joey Skaggs dressed up as Santa Claus and rode a three-wheeler to the United Nations in New York, NY. Skaggs’ bike was equipped with a fake mobile rocket launcher and a sign that read “ Peace…
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Little Sun
Read more: Little SunOlafur Eliasson’s latest project Little Sun was first debuted at the World Economic Forum on Africa in 2012. The global initiative is bringing tiny, sunburst shaped, plastic solar powered LED lights to the most marginalized regions of the world. Elliasson…