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Environmental Racism on Display

Practitioner:
Sergio Maciel and Provoke Culture

Date:
Dec 20 2020

Two children stand back-to-back, but they are facing two very different Chicagos. One child blows bubbles in a park under blue skies. The other wears a gas mask against a backdrop of scrap metal and billowing smokestacks. “The goal was…

Truisms

Practitioner:
Jenny Holzer

Date:
Dec 20 2020

Holzer’s Truisms have become part of the public domain, displayed in storefronts, on outdoor walls and billboards, and in digital displays in museums, galleries, and other public places, such as Times Square in New York. Multitudes of people have seen…

Community Organising Toolkit

Practitioner:
High Trees Community Development Trust

Date:
Dec 20 2020

Link: https://www.high-trees.org/toolkit/ This toolkit has been created to help you assess how well you are using the Community Organiser’s Principles of Practice in your work. It is based on the Community Organiser’s Framework. For each section, it will help you…

Extending the frame: The art, vision and activism of photographer Will Wilson

Practitioner:
Will Wilson

Date:
Dec 20 2020

At first, you don’t know what you’re looking at. A gray expanse of uneven geometry surrounded by undulating brown. Shift your perspective a bit and it might be a close-up of a distressed textile, with subtle hues and textures surfacing…

If Not Now, When?

Practitioner:
Wakefield London

Date:
Dec 20 2020

If Not Now, When? is an ongoing exhibition that showcases the work of 31 female sculptors, employing diverse materials and forms to address social and environmental issues such as gender equality, nuclear disarmament, and electronic waste. The Hepworth Wakefield in…

Private Dinner Party: Clothing Not Allowed

Practitioner:
Charlie Ann Max

Date:
Dec 20 2020

Private Dinner Party: Clothing Not Allowed The Füde Dinner Experience gathers those who want to meet, eat and drink — only after leaving their clothes at the door. The bare back shoulders of two women facing a table with lit…

Private Dinner Party: Clothing Not Allowed

Practitioner:
Charlie Ann Max

Date:
Dec 20 2020

Private Dinner Party: Clothing Not Allowed The Füde Dinner Experience gathers those who want to meet, eat and drink — only after leaving their clothes at the door. The bare back shoulders of two women facing a table with lit…

The Great Migration Series

Practitioner:
Jacob Lawrence

Date:
Dec 20 2020

National 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…

Tel Aviv Museum of Art to darken galleries in protest on Thursday

Practitioner:
Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Date:
Dec 20 2020

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is joining the countrywide judicial overhaul protests planned for Thursday, March 23, and will darken the halls and galleries of the museum, closing exhibits to the public and canceling planned tours and lectures. The…

Ip Gim: Feminist Art and Activism

Practitioner:
Ip Gim

Date:
Dec 20 2020

“Founded in 1997 and active until 2018, Ip Gim was the first collective to use the word ‘feminist’ to describe itself in South Korea. Ip Gim is an unmatched artist collective that has pioneered feminist activist art practice in the…