Projects tagged
Labor
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Can’t Help Myself
Read more: Can’t Help MyselfIn 2016, the Guggenheim Museum commissioned its very first robotic artwork called Can’t Help Myself (Wannmann, 2016). The artwork is created by two of China’s most controversial artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu and can be described as a robotic…
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Art activists decorate bandanas to protest violence against women farmworkers
Read more: Art activists decorate bandanas to protest violence against women farmworkersSitting at a folding table in the basement of Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Columbus, Monica Jacobo used a felt tip marker to write the words “No means no!” on a white bandana. Jacobo, 57, was among nearly a dozen…
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Fit For Work
Read more: Fit For WorkGraffiti art is particularly viewed as a powerful form of social protest, and the (illegal) act of defacing can be as important as the message itself. Artist Void One has been arrested on numerous occasions for his politically-charged interventions. “I…
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The Hell of Copper
Read more: The Hell of CopperArtists Statement: Over the past few years Ghana has become one of the principal countries to receive electrical waste materials coming from Europe and the United States. In The Hell of Copper I wanted to be as precise as possible;…
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Leopoldo Méndez’s Revolution: Social Activism through Graphic Art
Read more: Leopoldo Méndez’s Revolution: Social Activism through Graphic ArtBorn on June 30, 1902, in Mexico City, Leopoldo Méndez would become one of Mexico’s most significant and beloved graphic artists of the twentieth century. Méndez was one of eight children in a poor household. At a young age, Méndez…
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Detroit Industry, North Wall
Read more: Detroit Industry, North WallAlmost all of Rivera’s art told a story, many of which depicted Mexican society, the Mexican Revolution, or reflected his own personal social and political beliefs, and In the Arsenal is no different. The woman on the right side of…
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The Great Migration Series
Read more: The Great Migration SeriesNational Public Radio (NPR): There’s no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence’s childhood home in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. But Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has an idea of what it might…
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The radical power of sewing: the artist turning textiles into activism
Read more: The radical power of sewing: the artist turning textiles into activismSewing and textiles have always been a part of the artist Aram Han Sifuentes’ life. Her South Korean immigrant parents operated a dry cleaning business, and she mended her own clothing from a young age. But it wasn’t until she…
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STITCHING TOGETHER: GARMENT WORKERS IN SOLIDARITY
Read more: STITCHING TOGETHER: GARMENT WORKERS IN SOLIDARITYOn April 24, 2013, more than 1,000 lives were taken in the Rana Plaza Collapse. While history remembers this tragic event as the deadliest garment factory accident, activist and photographer Taslima Akhter reveals a story of dreams crushed by structural…
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La Casa Invisible Protests Against Gentrification
Read more: La Casa Invisible Protests Against GentrificationLa Casa Invisible project was started in 2007 in Malaga, Spain, when a group of socially involved participants squatted in a run-down building, aiming to eventually claim the legal rights to the property (Moor & Smart, 2016). The space was…