Projects tagged
Health
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Occupy Men’s Toilets
Read more: Occupy Men’s ToiletsThe “Occupy Men’s Toilets” movement, initiated by Chinese feminist activists including Li Tingting (Li Maizi) and Wu Rongrong, emerged in 2012 as a creative, non-violent protest against gender inequality in access to public facilities. Inspired partly by global “Occupy” movements…
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menstrual pad mutual aid boxes
Read more: menstrual pad mutual aid boxesSince 2020, university students across China have launched a grassroots initiative to combat menstrual stigma by placing “menstrual pad mutual aid boxes” in campus restrooms. These boxes, often accompanied by signs reading “Take one if you need it, donate if…
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Extravaganja
Read more: ExtravaganjaRooted in decades of grassroots organizing, the cannabis reform activism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is one of the longest-running student-led efforts for marijuana legalization in the United States. Led by the Cannabis Education Coalition (CEC), founded in 1991,…
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P.A.I.N. Die-Ins
Read more: P.A.I.N. Die-InsThis afternoon, in the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a mother and daughter threw coins into its reflecting pool while a couple posed for engagement photos in front of the Temple of Dendur, the…
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Crack is Wack
Read more: Crack is WackWithout having been commissioned—or even given legal permission at all—Haring set out to create Crack Is Wack on the wall of an abandoned handball court in a park at 2nd Avenue and East 128th Street on June 27, 1986. Upon…
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Inside Out Project
Read more: Inside Out ProjectAfter winning the TED Prize on March 2, 2011, the French-artist JR launched the Inside Out Project, in his first TED Talk. Using his own artistic practice as inspiration, this participatory platform helps individuals and communities to make a statement…
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the Fundred Project
Read more: the Fundred ProjectThe Fundred Dollar Bill Project, initiated by artist Mel Chin, is a collaborative art project aimed at raising awareness and mobilizing action against the environmental and health threat of lead contamination. It encourages individuals to create their own unique interpretations…
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt— NAMES Project
Read more: The AIDS Memorial Quilt— NAMES ProjectThe AIDS pandemic began in the early 1980s and brought with it a surge of emotions from the public: they were afraid, angry, fearful and defiant. The arrival of AIDS also brought with it a condemnation of the LGBT community.…
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Art as therapy: Swiss doctors prescribe museum visits
Read more: Art as therapy: Swiss doctors prescribe museum visitsSwiss doctors are expanding the range of prescriptions for patients with mental health conditions and chronic illnesses to include strolls in public gardens, art galleries and museums. The city of Neuchatel, in western Switzerland, launched the pilot project with doctors…
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt
Read more: The AIDS Memorial QuiltCleve Jones’s powerful vision for memorializing those lost to AIDS was realized in October 1987 in Washington D.C. It showcased the artistic contributions of people who’d lost loved ones to the virus from a number of US metropolitan centers. The…