Projects tagged
Race & Ethnicity
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CFA San Francisco Member Brings Black Art and Activism to Students
Read more: CFA San Francisco Member Brings Black Art and Activism to Students“As an educator, I want people to have a sense of empowerment. I want them to have ownership of their own creative experience. It’s a very humane thing knowing we are inherently creative.” CFA member Mark Allan Davis’s “artivism” is…
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Cloud Studies
Read more: Cloud StudiesForensic Architecture’s Cloud Studies is a project that investigates the impact of toxic clouds on colonised and oppressed communities. The clouds, originating from sources like tear gas, industrial emissions, chemical weapons, and forest fires, often go unaddressed due to doubt…
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In Tamir Rice’s death, artists found inspiration to carry on his legacy
Read more: In Tamir Rice’s death, artists found inspiration to carry on his legacySamaria Rice, left, and Terrence Spivey welcome the crowd at the Tamir Rice Sweet 16 event to raise funds for a new youth oriented cultural center Thursday, June 14th, 2018, at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo…
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If Not Now, When?
Read more: If Not Now, When?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…
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2020 Was the Year of Protest Music
Read more: 2020 Was the Year of Protest Music2020 was the year of when protest music blared everywhere. For a long period, Black people struggled against police brutality and in the uproar of George Floyd’s murder, BLM protests instantly swept over the country. Of the many protest music…
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George Floyd statues unveiled as cities celebrate Juneteenth
Read more: George Floyd statues unveiled as cities celebrate JuneteenthIt was a quick turnaround for federal employers to recognize Juneteenth as a new federal holiday. But some cities were ready with new statues honoring George Floyd, whose killing by police in Minneapolis last year sparked a nationwide racial justice…
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A Guide to the Afrofuturist House Music of Dirty Bird
Read more: A Guide to the Afrofuturist House Music of Dirty BirdIn 1996, filmmaker John Akomfrah created the character of the Data Thief as a narrative device to offer an insightful study of Afrofuturism in his film The Last Angel of History, which links Black musicians including George Clinton, Derrick May,…
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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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A Power Letter to Asian Women
Read more: A Power Letter to Asian WomenRohan Zhou-Lee pens a power letter to Asian women, reminding us of our brilliance, heroism, and inherited centuries of Asian woman power. To any Asian Woman, cis or trans, who might read this: You may not know me, or know…
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Emerging Indigenous artists are mixing tradition with an urgent, organized message
Read more: Emerging Indigenous artists are mixing tradition with an urgent, organized messageThe new exhibit “MESH” at Portland Art Museum features Indigenous contemporary artists advocating for change Visual artist, writer and activist Ka’ila Farrell-Smith says she considers herself a wartime artist. She is a member of the Klamath tribes and lives in…