Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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Feminists in France change Paris street names to celebrate inspirational women
Read more: Feminists in France change Paris street names to celebrate inspirational womenA feminist group in France has been transforming the streets of Paris after noting that just 2.6 per cent are named after notable women. Tourists on the Ile de la Cité got a surprise when they found that almost all…
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Artists Buy Trump Campaign Bus on Craigslist, Turn It Into Anti-Trump Art Project
Read more: Artists Buy Trump Campaign Bus on Craigslist, Turn It Into Anti-Trump Art ProjectTwo artists have repurposed the presidential candidate’s campaign bus in order to critique his controversial views. In October 2015, the artists David Gleeson and Mary Mihelic purchased a Donald Trump tour bus on Craigslist. It was the start of an…
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Bristol Activists Use Street Art to Fight Gentrification
Read more: Bristol Activists Use Street Art to Fight GentrificationThe People’s Republic of Stokes Croft is using street art to preserve the identity of Bristol’s most culturally diverse neighbourhood. PRSC began by opening up spaces for street art throughout the neighbourhood, providing a counterweight to the advertising images that…
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Parió Paula
Read more: Parió PaulaParió Paula is an all women’s percussion group based in Lima, Peru. These women are truly artistic renegades defying the social norms of Lima’s predominantly male music scene. With a bold message on emphasizing female expression, these ladies have transformed…
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Europe’s First Underwater Museum Offers A Stark Reminder of the Refugee Crisis
Read more: Europe’s First Underwater Museum Offers A Stark Reminder of the Refugee CrisisStrap into your scuba gear — this museum is worth it. Installation began on Museo Atlantico — the latest project of underwater sculptor James deCaires Taylor — this week, 14 meters underwater in Lanzarote, one of the Spain’s Canary Islands…
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Rainwater art activism
Read more: Rainwater art activismTo raise awareness among the general public about the global clean water crisis, the artist Belo created an image composed of 66,000 cups of colored rainwater simulating levels of impurities found in water all over the planet. This major work…
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“The Body Of Water”
Read more: “The Body Of Water”In November 2016, citizens of Flint, MI filed a historic class action law suit against both city and state for the damages wrought by lead contaminants in the water supply. The city’s 100 thousand inhabitants have faced damages not only…
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Subversive Coloring Books
Read more: Subversive Coloring BooksWhile adult coloring books are hitting a high note right now in 2016, this isn’t the first time this has happened. Back in the 1960s, coloring books were so popular that one of them even made it to the New…
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China’s Vacuum-Cleaner Artist Turning Beijing’s Smog into Bricks
Read more: China’s Vacuum-Cleaner Artist Turning Beijing’s Smog into BricksBeijing and the rest of cities in northern China suffer from years of smog pollution.The beige-gray miasma of smog brings coughs and rasping. Hospitals are crowded from respiratory ailments and a midday sky is so dim. But “Brother Nut(坚果兄弟)“, a…
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Shift Change Dress
Read more: Shift Change DressShift Change Dress is a community fashion & art project that utilizes a shift dress sewing pattern as a medium for communication and action. Participants are encouraged to use the pattern as a blank canvas for their art or message…
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Artists got fed up with these ‘anti-homeless spikes.’ So they made them a bit more … comfy.
Read more: Artists got fed up with these ‘anti-homeless spikes.’ So they made them a bit more … comfy.These are called “anti-homeless spikes.” They’re about as friendly as they sound. Photo courtesy of CC BY-ND, Immo Klink and Marco Godoy. As you may have guessed, they’re intended to deter people who are homeless from sitting or sleeping on…
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Border Crosser
Read more: Border CrosserZERO1 is thrilled to commission artist Chico MacMurtrie/Amorphic Robot Works(ARW) Border Crosser during the week leading up to SB50. Rising 40 feet from the ground and arching across an imaginary border before forming a bridge and touching down on the…