Projects tagged
Sustains (change)
Support and celebrate change that has already been won and needs to be sustained.
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Youth Activist Art Archive
Read more: Youth Activist Art ArchiveThe Youth Activist Art Archive (YAAA) is a dedicated platform that highlights and celebrates the creative efforts of young individuals (26 years old and younger) actively participating in diverse social movements and causes. YAAA acknowledges the vital role and innovative…
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The Georgian artists at the forefront of anti-government protests
Read more: The Georgian artists at the forefront of anti-government protestsThe Georgian government’s attempt in March to impose a repressive Russian-style “foreign agent” law has galvanised the cultural community in the country. Museum workers and artists have been at the forefront of dramatic protests during which police fired water cannons…
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James Luna’s “The Artifact Piece” (1987)
Read more: James Luna’s “The Artifact Piece” (1987)The performance artist James Luna, who died in 2018 at age 68, had a wicked sense of humor, which made his explorations of the way that Indigenous people have long been objectified, especially in museums, painfully piquant. A member of…
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Remembering Photographer and Activist Kwame Brathwaite, Who Gave a Visual Language to the ‘Black Is Beautiful’ Movement
Read more: Remembering Photographer and Activist Kwame Brathwaite, Who Gave a Visual Language to the ‘Black Is Beautiful’ MovementKwame Brathwaite, the photographer and activist whose work gave a visual identity to the “Black is Beautiful” movement, died on April 1. He was 85. The news was shared by his son, Kwame Brathwaite, Jr., in an Instagram post. “I…
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Chile’s protest street art
Read more: Chile’s protest street art“The walls of the streets of downtown Santiago are covered with stickers, art, words and posters. The messages are varied and range from “Feminist power” to “All cops are bastards”. They have taken over the walls of Zona Cero (Ground…
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Red Sand Project
Read more: Red Sand ProjectThe Red Sand Project is a participatory art installation and social awareness project created by artist and activist Molly Gochman in 2014. The project aims to raise awareness about human trafficking, which is a global issue that affects an estimated…
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SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEA
Read more: SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEATROY, N.Y. Three loud blasts from a steam whistle screamed out as the rain drizzled on the riverbank here. And the fleet of seven eclectic handmade ships slowly moved away. Only minutes before their launching, on Friday around noon,…
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National AIDS Memorial
Read more: National AIDS MemorialThe Quilt was conceived in November of 1985 by long-time human rights activist, author and lecturer Cleve Jones. Since the 1978 assassinations of gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone, Jones had helped organize the annual candlelight…
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BLM MURAL PROJECT – TACOMA
Read more: BLM MURAL PROJECT – TACOMAArtists Dionne Bonner, Kenya Adams, Gwen Jones, and Charles Taylor planned the creation of the Black Lives Matter mural in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Additional artists Breyahna Monet and Danielle Jordan joined the project in the second…
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Books (Please)! In All Branches of Knowledge, 1924
Read more: Books (Please)! In All Branches of Knowledge, 1924Seattle Times: In 1921, just four years after the Bolshevik Revolution, American journalist Albert Rhys Williams wrote: “The visitor to Russia is struck by the multitude of posters — in factories and barracks, on walls and railway-cars, on telegraph poles…
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The Folded Map Project
Read more: The Folded Map ProjectThe Folded Map Project is a project by Tonika Lewis Johnson, a photographer and community activist from Chicago. The project aims to investigate and change the racial and economic segregation that affects the city and its residents. The project started…
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Intrabody Wireless Network
Read more: Intrabody Wireless Network“Intrabody Wireless Network” is a show of eighteen drawings and collages by Dmitry Borshch, in which he shows the architecture of such networks, their components referred to as nanomachines (biological, physical, chemical sensors, routers, antennas, interface devices), options for communicating…