Projects tagged
Race & Ethnicity
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Why Prince is a Powerful Example of Artistic Activism
Read more: Why Prince is a Powerful Example of Artistic ActivismFrom calling out poverty in his lyrics to his support of coding, the legendary artist pushed the world to care about more than music. With the sudden, tragic passing of Prince on Thursday, people are taking to social media to…
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One Of My Kind, Championing Muslim Women in The Zine World
Read more: One Of My Kind, Championing Muslim Women in The Zine WorldThe questions that London-based collective One Of My Kind (aka OOMK) explore are those of identity and belonging—issues that are experienced by everyone regardless of whether they grew up defining themselves based on the music they listen to, the hobbies…
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This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering
Read more: This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering“This Ain’t a Eulogy” is both a staged performance and a durational, outdoor, public performance that reclaims and takes public space. The artist statement is as follows: “Moved by the non-indictments of the police officers responsible for the deaths of…
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Beyonce’s Lemonade
Read more: Beyonce’s LemonadeIn a single hour, Beyoncé’s Lemonade re-wrote the textbook definition of what a visual album should look like. The genre-bending music it introduced will define the struggles a generation was enduring in 2016, specifically for black women. The project transcends…
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Injustice
Read more: InjusticeInjustice is an interactive VR experience themed around racially motivated police brutality. Guests witness an act of racial discrimination in front of them, forcing them to make moral and ethical decisions on the spot. Injustice is an experience aimed at…
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Guerrilla Girls- Twin Cities “takeover”
Read more: Guerrilla Girls- Twin Cities “takeover”A project as expansive as the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover is a first for them. Kicking off on January 21, the festival will comprise a series of events by 30 different groups, which will take place until March 6…
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Picture an Arab Man
Read more: Picture an Arab Man“Nude” and “vulnerable” aren’t words commonly used to describe Arab males. But that’s how Tamara Abdul Hadi pictures them—literally—in the project Picture an Arab Man. With the goal of breaking the stereotype of Arab men as violent and dangerous, Abdul…
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Perception and the Garbage People
Read more: Perception and the Garbage PeopleThe streets of the Cairo suburb Manshiyat Naser, nicknamed “Garbage City,” are lined with trash, and the people who live there — Coptic Christians who make their living sorting through it and recycling anything they can — are called zabaleen,…
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Enchanted Dolls
Read more: Enchanted DollsThe Enchanted Doll is the famous brand of the Russian jeweler artist and designer Marina Bychkova who makes absolutely incredible porcelain and polyurethane dolls for adults. Marina was born in the city of Novokuznetsk in the USSR and since 1997…
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Ask a Muslim
Read more: Ask a MuslimMona Haydar knows the way some people feel about Muslims in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Just weeks after the horrific San Bernardino, Calif., shooting in December, where Islamic extremists killed 14 people and wounded 22 others, Haydar was…