Projects tagged
Arts & Culture
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The Vivienne Foundation
Read more: The Vivienne FoundationThe Vivienne Foundation exists to honour, protect and continue the legacy of Vivienne’s creativity and activism. Since the start of her career in the 1970s, Vivienne was renowned not only for her fashion design, but also her activism. Vivienne always…
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Harry Belafonte on His Artistic Values and His Activism
Read more: Harry Belafonte on His Artistic Values and His ActivismHarry Belafonte, the singer, actor and activist whose wide-ranging success blazed a trail for other Black artists in the 1950s, died on Tuesday at age 96. A child of Harlem, Mr. Belafonte used his platform at the height of the…
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The Harlem Festival of Culture
Read more: The Harlem Festival of CultureThe Harlem Festival of Culture not only pays homage to the past but also envisions a brighter future. It serves as a platform to showcase the rich diversity and dynamism of Harlem’s artistic community, while also acting as a catalyst…
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The Ogden Ar(t)chives Mailbox
Read more: The Ogden Ar(t)chives MailboxThe Ogden Ar(t)chives Mailbox is a community project that was initiated by Ogden poet, Angelika Brewer. The project involves a metal sculpture of a mailbox, which has various decorative elements such as a typewriter, a birdcage, and a heart. The…
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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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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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American Born Chinese
Read more: American Born ChineseAmerican Born Chinese is a graphic novel published in 2006 by the American author and illustrator Gene Luen Yang. Through three interweaving stories that span from the 16th century to the present, the novel explores issues of Chinese American identity,…
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Two Climate Protesters Scribble Ink on Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Prints at National Gallery of Australia
Read more: Two Climate Protesters Scribble Ink on Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Prints at National Gallery of AustraliaTwo climate activists scrawled blue ink across a series of Andy Warhol screen prints at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australia this week to raise awareness of the country’s fossil fuel subsidies. Images and video of the protest…
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Street Art Activism: What White People Call Vandalism
Read more: Street Art Activism: What White People Call VandalismIn this article, author Caroline Choi highlights different grafiti artists and their stories. These artists use their talent to tell their stories, ones that might not get to be told otherwise. She goes into the history of grafiti, and how…