Projects tagged
Race & Ethnicity
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A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby…
Read more: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby…Text taken from Creative Time website: To say there is a riddle lurking in the sugar-coated monument conceived by Kara Walker may be an understatement as big as the sculpture itself. A massive sphinx-turned-mammy, she stands mute, looking outward, acting…
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Shibboleth
Read more: ShibbolethText taken from website: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth is the first work to intervene directly in the fabric of the Turbine Hall. Rather than fill this iconic space with a conventional sculpture or installation, Salcedo has created a subterranean chasm that…
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“Deport the Statue” Campaign
Read more: “Deport the Statue” CampaignIt’s time to deport the Statue of Liberty. That’s the latest mission for Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, an organization which has begun the “Deport the Statue” campaign for the removal of Lady Liberty through four Twitter accounts…
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Project Catalyst
Read more: Project CatalystProject Catalyst specializes in designing culturally rich entertainment experiences that re-imagine the empowering possibilities of cinema and media from a multicultural perspective. Project Catalyst exemplifies the efficacy and essential value of art and cinema at the intersections of social justice…
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LA Rebellion
Read more: LA RebellionIn the late 1960s, in the aftermath of the Watts Uprising and against the backdrop of the continuing Civil Rights Movement and the escalating Vietnam War, a group of African and African American students entered the UCLA School of Theater,…
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The Black Cinema House
Read more: The Black Cinema HouseBlack Cinema House hosts screenings and discussions of films by and about people of the African diaspora, and offers video classes to neighborhood youth, teaching the next generation to make their own films and tell their own stories. External sources:…
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Fake Eviction Notices
Read more: Fake Eviction NoticesOn the morning of April 24th, 2014, members of NYU’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine signed into several NYU dorms and slipped eviction notices under all of the doors. The eviction notices were written to raise awareness about…
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Feminist Art Activists ‘The Guerrilla Girls’ visit Wellesley College
Read more: Feminist Art Activists ‘The Guerrilla Girls’ visit Wellesley CollegeThey call themselves feminist masked avengers in the tradition of Robin Hood, Wonder Woman and Batman. They wear costume gorilla masks to remain anonymous, and they are devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the visual art world internationally. With…
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THE SLAVE SERIES: QUILTS BY GWENDOLYN A. MAGEE
Read more: THE SLAVE SERIES: QUILTS BY GWENDOLYN A. MAGEEThe image is stark. And shocking. A black man, his ankles shackled, his head hanging away from the viewer, stands in relief on a field of white. Chains stretching to the image’s borders on the left and right pull his…
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The Last American Indian On Earth
Read more: The Last American Indian On Earth“The Last American Indian on Earth”, a performance art piece by Gregg Deal,a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe originally based in northwestern Nevada.The project documents what happens when an unsuspecting public is confronted with the flesh-and-blood version of…