Projects tagged
Community
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Tibetan Self-immolation Portraits
Read more: Tibetan Self-immolation PortraitsBeijing-based artist Liu Yi is working on a series of black-and-white portraits he knows will never be shown in a Chinese gallery. His varied subjects — men and women, young and old, smiling and pensive — have one thing in…
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Inside Out Project
Read more: Inside Out ProjectJR called for the creation of a global art project – the Inside Out Project – inspired by his large‐format street “pastings.” The concept of the project is to give everyone the opportunity to share their portrait and a statement…
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Fruit Activists Take Urban Gardens in a New Direction
Read more: Fruit Activists Take Urban Gardens in a New DirectionDEL AIRE, Calif. — Fruit looms large in the California psyche. Since the 1800s, dewy images of oranges, lemons and other fruits have been a lure for seekers of the state’s postcard essence, symbols of fertile land, felicitous climate and…
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Rolezinho Movement
Read more: Rolezinho MovementThis description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below): Since last December, Brazilian shopping malls have become the stage for a new style of youth gathering: the rolezinho. Roughly translated as “little excursions” or outings, the rolezinhos…
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Autel de Lycée Chases (“Altar to the Chases High School”)
Read more: Autel de Lycée Chases (“Altar to the Chases High School”)Text taken from website: By appropriating mementos of other people’s lives and placing them in an art context, Boltanski explores the power of photography to transcend individual identity and to function instead as a witness to collective rituals and shared…
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Rolezinho
Read more: RolezinhoThis description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below): Since last December, Brazilian shopping malls have become the stage for a new style of youth gathering: the rolezinho. Roughly translated as “little excursions” or outings, the rolezinhos…
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Share It To The End
Read more: Share It To The EndTo call attention to bullying, the Singapore Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth has released a video that gets shorter each time it is viewed. Hosted on a site called Share It To The End, the short animated video…
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Take A Closer Look
Read more: Take A Closer LookBellefaire JCB, an organization that provides care, education, and advocacy to better the emotional, physical and intellectual well-being of children, young adults and families has launched Take A Closer Look, a campaign which aims to raise public awareness about the…
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Project Catalyst
Read more: Project CatalystProject Catalyst specializes in designing culturally rich entertainment experiences that re-imagine the empowering possibilities of cinema and media from a multicultural perspective. Project Catalyst exemplifies the efficacy and essential value of art and cinema at the intersections of social justice…
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The Black Cinema House
Read more: The Black Cinema HouseBlack Cinema House hosts screenings and discussions of films by and about people of the African diaspora, and offers video classes to neighborhood youth, teaching the next generation to make their own films and tell their own stories. External sources:…