Projects tagged
Race & Ethnicity
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The Paradox of the Tyre Nichols Video
Read more: The Paradox of the Tyre Nichols VideoTYRE NICHOLS WAS a photographer with an eye for the natural world. He was especially drawn to landscape portraiture, its calm and innocence. It is said that Nichols liked to crane his lens skyward, capturing what sunlight he could before…
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United States of Attica
Read more: United States of AtticaIn September 1971, after years of mistreatment and months of simmering tensions, more than 1,200 of the 2,200 inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York took control of the prison in protest of its substandard conditions and…
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Wired in Disability Arts
Read more: Wired in Disability ArtsSerene colors and technical set pieces create a surreal ambience as performers delicately hover into the black void above the stage. These performers belong to Kinetic Light, an “internationally-recognized disability arts ensemble”. In 2022, the ensemble performed Wired, a “potent…
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In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, the hoodie takes on a greater meaning
Read more: In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, the hoodie takes on a greater meaningI was just shy of 18 when I bought the hooded sweatshirt — a metallic silver thing that cost about $10 on the Aeropostale clearance rack — to take with me to Northwestern University in the Chicago suburbs, knowing my…
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MSU community uses art to show solidarity with Iran protests
Read more: MSU community uses art to show solidarity with Iran protestsAmid ongoing protests and government repression in Iran, a group of artists at Michigan State University is raising awareness about the women fighting for their rights in the country. The group hosted a packed crowd one January evening for a…
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Organization for the Democratization of the Visual Arts
Read more: Organization for the Democratization of the Visual ArtsODBK is an activist organization that aims to create a more equal, diverse, inclusive, transparent and democratic art world. ODBK seeks to do this by diversify and increase the number of people who understand and engage with contemporary art. We…
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Ride to the Polls
Read more: Ride to the PollsOn Friday, 30-year-old activist Allie Young will lead a group of trail riders through Navajo Nation to help voters cast their ballots in the 2020 election on the last day of early voting in Arizona. Young, a citizen of the…
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No Pride in Incarceration!
Read more: No Pride in Incarceration!❗❗PRIDE REQUIRES ACTION❗❗ Celebrating Pride? What better way to uplift LGBTQ people’s lives than by joining our campaign to #EndTransDetention? Honor the legacy of Pride by taking action until all of us are free. Sign here & share with 3…
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THEY Still want to kill us: Film of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to Air at Arts Center
Read more: THEY Still want to kill us: Film of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to Air at Arts CenterJoining art institutes nationally, a film on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will premiere at the UMass Amherst Arts Center. This is especially important given its will be the 100th anniversary of the tragic event of when “Black Wall Street”…
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APEX: Ed Bereal
Read more: APEX: Ed BerealLegendary activist and artist Ed Bereal will be able to have his work displayed again in the newly reopened Portland Art Museum. He is a complex figure, gaining fame in LA in the 1960s for his abstract works and radical…