Projects tagged
Health
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Keith Haring’s Barcelona mural: A vibrant call to action
Read more: Keith Haring’s Barcelona mural: A vibrant call to actionA vibrant red mural in the heart of Barcelona serves as both an artistic expression and social activism. Officially known as the Todos Juntos Podemos Parar el SIDA (Together We Can Stop AIDS), the public art was created by the…
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Sneaking Female Curves Through Instagram’s Ban
Read more: Sneaking Female Curves Through Instagram’s BanIt all began during Claudia’s final art project at the London College of Communication, where she delved into the issue of “sexual objectification of women,” a topic close to her heart as she navigated her womanhood. Her initial series, “Scenery,”…
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Healing through sound and community art
Read more: Healing through sound and community artGlowing softly in the West Texas desert night, artist Guadalupe Maravilla’s Mariposa Relámpago, was once an ordinary school bus but is now a richly decorated, mobile site for remembrance and healing. Like much of the artist’s work, this piece commemorates…
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An Italian farming community gathers for the funeral of traditional agriculture.
Read more: An Italian farming community gathers for the funeral of traditional agriculture.Omelia Contadina was born out of the concern of JR and director Alice Rohrwacher for the difficulties encountered by many small farmers and inhabitants of the Alfina plateau, in Italy. Alice Rohrwacher explains the origins of the project: “Last autumn,…
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CLIMAVORE: environmental restoration through artistic practices
Read more: CLIMAVORE: environmental restoration through artistic practicesIn 2016 an eye-catching sparrow was spotted in Scotland. The bird had ingested feed pellets from a nearby salmon farm, turning its feathers pink. Cramped in underwater feedlots, farmed salmon have no access to the prey that colour their flesh…
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Why Cakes Can Be a Powerful Form of Protest
Read more: Why Cakes Can Be a Powerful Form of ProtestLONG BEFORE WOMEN finally — though incompletely — won the right to vote in the United States in 1920, they were finding ways to influence politics. In late 18th-century New England, colonial women would make muster cakes — spiced, doorstop-heavy…
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Raising Awareness of Migration and COVID 19 through Graffiti and Street Art in Accra
Read more: Raising Awareness of Migration and COVID 19 through Graffiti and Street Art in AccraIn a bid to fight the spread of COVID-19, the EU Delegation to Ghana on Wednesday 27 May joined the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and artists from the Ghana Graffiti Collective, to launch an…
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World Art Day 2022: Ghanaian graffiti artists launch environmental protection campaign in Ada
Read more: World Art Day 2022: Ghanaian graffiti artists launch environmental protection campaign in AdaAs part of the commemoration of this year’s World Art Day (April 15), Ghanaian-based Tapioca Foundation and Imposters Art Collective have embarked on a campaign to educate the public about environmental sustainability. The project, which was launched in Ada in…
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Subway Therapy
Read more: Subway TherapyMatthew “Levee” Chavez sits at a table in New York City’s Union Square, sporting a thrift store suit and tie, holding a sign that reads “Subway Therapy.” This act of social practice, which started as an invitation for conversation, went…
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Un-Daily Bread
Read more: Un-Daily BreadIn response to an earlier project called “Daily Bread, Gregg Segal collaborated with the United Nations Refugee Agency to bring awareness to the crisis of refugees fleeing Venezuela through his project “Un-Daily Bread.” “We chose to look not only at…