Projects tagged
Race & Ethnicity
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HANGING KLANSMEN ART INSTALLATION STUNS RICHMOND COMMUNITY
Read more: HANGING KLANSMEN ART INSTALLATION STUNS RICHMOND COMMUNITYA Richmond, VA.-based activist group called Indecline has recently installed a street art resistance installation of several hung clown figures dressed like the KKK from a tree in Richmond’s Bryan Park. The same group behind the naked Donald Trump statues…
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Brazil’s Most Famous Art Movement Built on Racial Inequality
Read more: Brazil’s Most Famous Art Movement Built on Racial InequalityThe Shifting View on Anthropofagia Tarsila is closely associated with the establishment of the Brazilian art movement known as cultural “cannibalism,” or “Anthropofagia”: the then-radical idea that a truly Brazilian art would emerge by ingesting all the different cultures that…
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NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower Others
Read more: NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower OthersYou’ll find Johanna Toruno on the streets of NYC plastering pictures of her flower-filtered poetry, Kendrick Lamar, and Selena on blank walls, street lights and buildings. When I came across The Unapologetically Brown Series on Instagram I was intrigued not…
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Google Features 12 Female Artists To Celebrate International Women’s Day
Read more: Google Features 12 Female Artists To Celebrate International Women’s DayGoogle is honoring female artists and their stories this International Women’s Day. On Thursday, the tech company will feature 12 interactive illustrations or “Google Doodles” on the search platform’s homepage. The artists are from 12 countries, including the U.S., Japan,…
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Avy Search and Rescue Drone
Read more: Avy Search and Rescue DroneA rescue drone for refugees in danger whilst traveling across the Mediterranean Sea. Last year alone, 3,500 refugees perished attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea. The Avy Search and Rescue Drone is specifically designed to help refugee boats. The drone…
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Threads of Resistance
Read more: Threads of ResistanceA juried exhibition of fiber art created by the Artist Circle Alliance to protest the Trump administration’s actions and policies. This is a traveling exhibition to 13 venues across the U.S. All work in the exhibition, as well as the…
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“STAND UP FOR SOMETHING” Oscars 2018
Read more: “STAND UP FOR SOMETHING” Oscars 2018The American rapper’s performance of ‘Stand Up for Something’ with singer Andra Day has gone down as one of the highlights of this year’s Academy Awards. Common used his Oscars performance to condemn Donald Trump’s “hate” and the National Rifle…
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Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) – ONGOING working organization
Read more: Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) – ONGOING working organizationThe Haitian Creole word “konbit” denotes the idea of similar talents joining together to work towards a common goal. The founders — a group of photographers, educators, and artists — came up with the idea for Fotokonbit a few years…
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Rolezinho Pretoi/Black Stroll
Read more: Rolezinho Pretoi/Black Stroll“How different. Exotic,” commented one women as she watched a group of almost 50 people — mostly young and black, many wearing bright fabrics with African designs — stroll through the Shopping Leblon mall. They came this Monday to participate…
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A Dallas Drinking Fountain
Read more: A Dallas Drinking Fountain“FOUNTAINS: A public artwork in three parts by lauren woods The Monument: A working public water fountain at the Dallas County Records Building triggers a projection of digitally-altered newsreel footage of 1960s civil rights protests under the remains of a…