Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Benjamin Lay spills blood at 1738 Quaker Meeting
Read more: Benjamin Lay spills blood at 1738 Quaker MeetingIt was September 1738, and Benjamin Lay had walked 20 miles, subsisting on “acorns and peaches,” to reach the Quakers’ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Beneath his overcoat he wore a military uniform and a sword — both anathema to Quaker teachings.…
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Clowns against (Nazi) Clowns
Read more: Clowns against (Nazi) ClownsTrolls chanted in the streets the day of a planned neo-Nazi rally in the small ski town of Whitefish, Montana earlier this year. But they were not the trolls that residents had been expecting—namely, white supremacists from around the country,…
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Activsm, Artivism and Beyond; inspiring initiatives of civic power.
Read more: Activsm, Artivism and Beyond; inspiring initiatives of civic power.‘Activism, Artivism and Beyond; Inspiring Initiatives of Civic Power’ Around the world people are responding to forces that threaten their rights and freedoms in creative and inspiring ways. Every year CIVICUS publishes the ‘State of Civil Society’ report, which maps…
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#CronicaDaMorteAnunciada
Read more: #CronicaDaMorteAnunciadaAcción #CronicaDaMorteAnunciada que consistió en la creación de 9 estandartes con informaciones sobre asesinatos a “País do Santo” para denunciar sus muertes por motivos de racismo afroreligioso en la ciudad de Belém, Brasil. La acción resalta la violencia letal contra…
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IMPEACH
Read more: IMPEACHIMPEACH An online exhibition of art work by twenty artists Katherine Aoki, Deborah Harris, Nicolas Lampert,Cicely Cottingham, Art Hazelwood, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Priscilla Stadler, Tim Fite, Anne Q McKeown, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Robyn Ellenbogen, Joseph O’Neal, Donna Coleman, Robert Geshlider, Michael…
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Quinceañera Protest
Read more: Quinceañera ProtestOn Wednesday, a group of 15 teenage girls, dressed in brightly colored gowns, stood in front of the Texas State Capitol to participate in one of Latin American culture’s most cherished traditions: the quinceañera. But this quinceañera was more than…
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Kimani Gray Barricades
Read more: Kimani Gray Barricades“This project was launched in the wake of the police shooting of 16-year old Brooklyn resident Kimani Gray. Blue NYPD barricades left in piles around the city were spray-painted with the names of people killed by police, then re-deployed in…
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Ghosts of Union Square – The Contested City
Read more: Ghosts of Union Square – The Contested City“This project took aim at a public relations campaign produced by The Union Square Partnership, a local Business Improvement District (BID) attempting to privatize the north end of NYC’s Union Square park and install a high-end celebrity chef restaurant. They…
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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Read more: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence“The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence® is a leading-edge Order of queer nuns. Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and…
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The Democracy Wall in Carroll Gardens
Read more: The Democracy Wall in Carroll GardensThe “Democracy Wall” in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn, New York was established in 2009. This wall is a long-term, community art activist project that is part wall mural, part past information archive. The project features paintings, photographs, newspaper…