Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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Chinese Core Socialist Values Graffiti in London’s Brick Lane
Read more: Chinese Core Socialist Values Graffiti in London’s Brick LaneThe graffiti made up of 24 stenciled Chinese characters sprayed in red paint against a white backdrop across walls appeared in East London’s street art haven Brick Lane on August 5, 2023. It was created a group of young people…
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Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia’s The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui Odyssey
Read more: Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia’s The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui OdysseyThe Couple in the Cage documents the travelling performance of Guillermo Gómez -Peña and Coco Fusco, in which they exhibited themselves as caged Amerindians from an imaginary island. While the artists’ intent was to create a satirical commentary on the…
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Guerilla Girls, Do Women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989
Read more: Guerilla Girls, Do Women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989The Guerilla Girls are a group of feminist activist artists, who use facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture in their artworks. In 1989, they designed this…
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Imagination Playground
Read more: Imagination PlaygroundWhen award-winning architect David Rockwell started spending time in playgrounds with his young children, he was disturbed by the lack of imagination and variation in the way kids interact with standardized playground equipment. He spent five years developing the Imagination…
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Trek the Vote
Read more: Trek the VoteWe are a grassroots movement of Star Trek fans volunteering with non-partisan, pro-democracy groups nationwide. Our team of thousands of “Starfleet officers” volunteer with our partner organizations to support voting rights, improve election transparency, and help elections administrators meet their…
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Art activist group Led by Donkeys paints Ukrainian flag in front of Russian embassy
Read more: Art activist group Led by Donkeys paints Ukrainian flag in front of Russian embassyYesterday morning (23 February), Led by Donkeys staged a protest in front of the Russian embassy in London, creating a large-scale public artwork in solidarity with Ukraine. The group poured litres of yellow and blue paint on each side of…
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Las Restauramoras
Read more: Las RestauramorasSiempre Unidas is a feminist collective in the state of Quintana Roo (Mexico) that works partly through street art. In 2021, in response to the femicide of Victoria Salazar – a refugee from El Salvador who died in police custody…
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The Hong Kong Artist Who Got Fired From McDonald’s
Read more: The Hong Kong Artist Who Got Fired From McDonald’sOn a recent eight-hour shift at a McDonald’s in Hong Kong, Luke Ching, 52, wiped tables, cleared trays of half-eaten fries, emptied cups of soda and milk tea and lugged bulging trash bags to the dumpster. For him, the main…
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The Wisdom of the Universe
Read more: The Wisdom of the UniverseThe Wisdom of the Universe was painted in 2014 by Métis artist, author, and activist Christi Belcourt. Based in Northeastern Ontario, Belcourt is best known for her large-scale acrylic paintings — like this one — that use hundreds of thousands…
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Art and Restorative Justice: Transformative Healing Through Expression
Read more: Art and Restorative Justice: Transformative Healing Through ExpressionRooted in Native American and indigenous practices,[11] restorative justice is a set of principles and practices that aims to help communities heal from conflict and harm by developing a common understanding of the root causes and effects.[12] Restorative justice can…
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Sunflower Seeds by Ai Weiwei
Read more: Sunflower Seeds by Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei’s installation Sunflower Seeds is a profound commentary on both historical and contemporary issues through the medium of art. First exhibited at Tate Modern in London from October 12, 2010, to May 2, 2011, the work features an astonishing…
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White Paper Revolution in Nanjing University of Communication
Read more: White Paper Revolution in Nanjing University of CommunicationDirect Cause: The event that on November 24, several people died in a fire in a residential building in Urumqi, Xinjiang province, due to delayed disaster relief due to the COVID-19 lockdown policy in China, and the indifference of the…