Projects tagged
Clothing & Costumes
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Articulo 6 (Action 5)
Read more: Articulo 6 (Action 5)MFA Fashion Parsons graduate and fashion designer Lucia Cuba, for her senior collection, created a fashion collection inspired by the victims and used to raise awareness of forced sterilization in Peru. Framed as “actions,” each collection presentation showcased before a…
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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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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…
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Nadia Plesner v Commercialism
Read more: Nadia Plesner v CommercialismDanish 26-year-old art student Nadia Plesner designed this T-shirt depicting a Darfurian child holding a Louis Vuitton handbag as commentary on global disparity as it relates to war, developing nations, commercialism, and media. In 2006, the fashion house sued Plesner…
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Cookie Monster Golden Biscuit Ransom
Read more: Cookie Monster Golden Biscuit RansomThief steals 44 lb golden cookie from the world-renowned Bahlsen Cookie Headquarters in Hanover, Germany earlier this January. Under the guise of Sesame Street’s beloved Cookie Monster, the thief sent the headquarters a ransom note demanding cookies be donated to…
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Angel Action
Read more: Angel ActionMatthew Shepard was attacked by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson on October 7, 1998, the victim of an anti-gay hate crime. He was pronounced dead on October 12th. Shepard’s funeral was protested by Fred Phelps, notorious leader of the Westboro…
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Dumping Tea into the Sea – the Boston Tea Party
Read more: Dumping Tea into the Sea – the Boston Tea PartyForget Sarah Palin. And take a history class and learn from the daring early settlers! The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the…
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SuperBarrio runs for PRESIDENT!
Read more: SuperBarrio runs for PRESIDENT!“Superbarrio Gomez and his journey in the construction of a “politics of the possible” (1) , an alternative political imaginary constituted via popular culture and the construction of a national and transnational social movement. Superbarrio makes evident the collapse between…
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SlutWalk
Read more: SlutWalkThe SlutWalk protest marches began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and became a movement of rallies across the world. Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman’s appearance. The rallies…
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Stop Frisk Tourist T- Shirts
Read more: Stop Frisk Tourist T- ShirtsAt Souvenir Stands, Selling Tourists on Ending Stop-and-Search By COREY KILGANNON New York Times, City Blog, August 27, 2012 Last week, a 37-year-old artist from Oakland, Calif., named Aaron Gach joined the crowds of tourists swarming the sidewalk souvenir stands…