Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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V-Day
Read more: V-DayV-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the…
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Young Women For Change: Fashion as Activism
Read more: Young Women For Change: Fashion as ActivismFounded in April 2011, Young Women for Change (YWC) is an independent non-profit organization committed to empowering Afghan women and improving their lives through social, economical , political empowerment, participation, awareness and advocacy. YWC was co-founded by Noorjahan Akbar and…
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16 days of activism against gender violence-global movement
Read more: 16 days of activism against gender violence-global movementSince 1991, approximately 1,700 organizations in 130 countries have participated in the 16 Days Campaign, which originated from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. During 16 days, participators are encouraged to organize…
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Women Are Heros
Read more: Women Are HerosFilm correlating to the project of the same name by JR – a french street artist who works with large scale photography and wheat-paste. External sources: http://www.womenareheroes-lefilm.com/site_womenareheroes/ http://vimeo.com/15686678
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Graffiti campaigns bring women and children into street art
Read more: Graffiti campaigns bring women and children into street artBy Maha ElNabawi It was a landmark day when prominent women’s rights activist Doria Shafiq bravely led a march of 1,500 women to storm the gates of Parliament on 19 February 1951. After several hours of unrelenting protest, Shafiq was…
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Womens Erotic Art
Read more: Womens Erotic ArtThe aim is to create an on line community that seeks to find new ways to articulate what it means to be an international women in relation to art and sexuality. International visual artists who are making cutting edge fine…
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WOMEN ARE HEROES /
Read more: WOMEN ARE HEROES /The Women Are Heroes project has various steps in Africa, in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Sudan. In January 2009, 2000 square meters of rooftops are covered with photos of the eyes and faces of the women of Kibera, in…
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Corset
Read more: CorsetArtists: Cindy Maguire, Assistant Professor Art Education Adelphi University and Teaching Artist with Artistic Noise and girls ages 13-17 from the Brentwood Residential Center on Long Island. This bra/corset is a collaborative work by Cindy Maguire, Assistant Professor of Art…
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MFA Billboard
Read more: MFA BillboardThe Guerrilla Girls tactic was well thought-out and was effective in creating a spectacle to draw attention to the issue at hand, which is the lack of female representation in the museum. Where I think the campaign has some drawbacks…
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Guerilla Girls
Read more: Guerilla GirlsThe Guerilla Girls are masked art activists who seek to bring attention to women in the art world and expose the unfair dominance of white males in the field. Their research into the racial and gender inequality in the art…