Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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Dove Real Beauty Campaign
Read more: Dove Real Beauty CampaignThe Photoshop action — a downloadable file that applies an action with a single click — is aimed at art directors who may be creating such ads. The action, which was disseminated on Reddit and other places where Dove thought…
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Syrian Artists Set Guinness Record By Building World’s Largest Mural Out Of Recycled Goods
Read more: Syrian Artists Set Guinness Record By Building World’s Largest Mural Out Of Recycled GoodsA group of Syrian artists in Damascus has created the world’s biggest mural made of recycled materials, a rare work aimed at brightening public space in a city sapped by war and sanctions. The brightly coloured, 720-sq metre work was…
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‘I, Too, Am Harvard’: Black students show they belong
Read more: ‘I, Too, Am Harvard’: Black students show they belonghat’s it like to be black at Harvard? Students at the Ivy League university are offering a picture of their experiences there with a play and a photo campaign called “I, Too, Am Harvard,” a nod to the famous Langston…
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The Indebted States of America
Read more: The Indebted States of AmericaWith past government shut downs and teetering the fiscal cliff, debt ceiling now eliminated, credit line increase after credit line increase? I thought my timely art piece may be interesting for your viewers and spark healthy/heated discussion. Attached: My recent…
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Chinese Artist Xu Bing’s Phoenix takes flight at New York
Read more: Chinese Artist Xu Bing’s Phoenix takes flight at New YorkXu Bing, the internationally acclaimed Chinese artist, has brought his “Phoenix” installation to the majestic nave of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The two phoenixes, both Feng, the male, and Huang, the…
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A street art project paints a brighter future for Syrian refugee camps
Read more: A street art project paints a brighter future for Syrian refugee campsFollowing on from Ruben Shanchez’s mural on the Syrain boader, we head back to the same subject with Awareness & Prevention Through Art (AptART) is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to give vulnerable children an artistic experience with an opportunity…
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Israel, Palestine groups clash on College Walk
Read more: Israel, Palestine groups clash on College WalkStudents dressed as Israeli soldiers stopped other students, ordered them to the ground, and blindfolded them in a demonstration that drew multiple campus groups to a standoff on College Walk Thursday afternoon. The Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine set…
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Art Activists Use Sex Dolls To Protest Spain’s Controversial Anti-Abortion Law
Read more: Art Activists Use Sex Dolls To Protest Spain’s Controversial Anti-Abortion LawIn response to Spain’s increasingly restrictive legislation limiting access to abortion in the country, a group of art activists known for their bold, disruptive flair are taking action. The members of Luzinterruptus created “Rights to Trample On,” a radical art…
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“The Neighbors” Exhibition at the New Museum
Read more: “The Neighbors” Exhibition at the New MuseumBeginning in February 2014, the New Museum will present the first US museum exhibition devoted to the work of Polish artist Paweł Althamer. The exhibition “The Neighbors” will include a new presentation of the artist’s work, Draftsmen’s Congress, originally presented…
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2015
Read more: 2015The slogan of 2015 is “Art changes Perceptions, Perceptions change people, People change the world”. The organization has created an online community where anyone can post digital images of poverty existing in the Arab world. The action was created in…
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Mending Baghdad
Read more: Mending BaghdadMending Baghdad is a four-and-a-half-by-six-and-a-half-foot quilt memorializing Baghdad as it looked during the American bombing on the first nights of the Iraq war. The purpose of the project is to bring people together to do something symbolically curative for Iraq.…
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Artists Activists
Read more: Artists ActivistsArtistsActivists is a youth empowerment and advocacy organization started in 2011 by graduate students at Yale University. Through the various ArtistsActivists programs, artists and designers share their skills with young people around the world. Since more people are joining our…