Projects tagged
Environment
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Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic iceberg
Read more: Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic icebergThe stunt aims to show the impact of climate change by live streaming the sculpture melting. A climate change group is raising half a million dollars with the goal of carving President Donald Trump’s face into an arctic iceberg. The…
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Using Art to Stop a Pipeline
Read more: Using Art to Stop a PipelineIt’s not easy to stop the construction of natural gas pipelines, but several years ago the ecological artist and activist Aviva Rahmani came up with an ingenious idea: what if you could protect threatened landscapes by turning them into art?…
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Protesters Occupy Brooklyn Museum Atrium, Demanding Decolonization Commission
Read more: Protesters Occupy Brooklyn Museum Atrium, Demanding Decolonization CommissionOn Sunday, April 29, dozens of protesters occupied the Beaux-Arts Court at the Brooklyn Museum as they reiterated demands for a decolonization commission, about which the art institution has remained silent. The calls for the commission come after the criticisms…
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The Convergence
Read more: The ConvergenceThe Convergence graphic novel series is a science fiction dystopia. It tells the story of a dying earth and the dark covenant that the last civilization acceded to for survival. The social contract is disrupted when a prophecy is triggered…
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Fall in Love With Nature
Read more: Fall in Love With NatureWe set up a gazebo and table in a public park. The gazebo had two notice boards in the shape of trees where reflections were encouraged. We had a sign with the name of the action “Fall in Love With…
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The Universe in Verse
Read more: The Universe in Verse“The real wealth of the Nation,” marine biologist and author Rachel Carson wrote in her courageous 1953 protest letter, “lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife… Their administration is not properly, and cannot…
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Ana Mendieta and Earth Art
Read more: Ana Mendieta and Earth ArtThe works of Ana Mendieta tells a story of the power of the body and the earth, and methods of activism. —- Have you ever caught a still moment in nature where it’s so eerily calm, it feels as if…
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Ana Mendieta and Earth Art
Read more: Ana Mendieta and Earth ArtThe works of Ana Mendieta tells a story of the power of the body and the earth, and methods of activism. —- Ana Mendieta “Creek,” 1974. Super 8 Film, Colour, Silent.Courtesy of: Galerie Lelong & Co. Ana Mendieta was the…
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The Indigenous Wisdom Center on Pine Ridge
Read more: The Indigenous Wisdom Center on Pine RidgePine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the Oglala Lakota, designated as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. This land and its people have endured many tragedies at the hands of the United States government. Over 500 treaties negotiated in…
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Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI
Read more: Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTIONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what…