Projects tagged
Mixed Media
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Cancer Baby’s Kimo Kawa House
Read more: Cancer Baby’s Kimo Kawa HouseLu Yang attempts to bring the negative notion of Cancer cell into a “Kimo Kawa” object of love and/or pain and hopes to open a dialogue that brings awareness to the acceptance and tolerance of living with cancer cells. Using…
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Arts Meets Environmental Activism in “The Crossroads Project”
Read more: Arts Meets Environmental Activism in “The Crossroads Project”This month’s blast of arctic air may have roused climate-change skeptics. But the composer Laura Kaminsky and the painter Rebecca Allan were unfazed. Holed up in their apartment in Riverdale in the Bronx on one of the coldest days in…
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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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“Artists Support Ukraine”
Read more: “Artists Support Ukraine”“Artists Support Ukraine”, an initiative that seeks to bring attention to the Euromaidan protests in Kiev, through art. Organized by the Kadygrob & Taylor Platform for Contemporary Art, the collective engages painters, photographers, video artists, graphic designers, street artists and…
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Artistic Activism at the NYC iSchool
Read more: Artistic Activism at the NYC iSchoolStudents at the NYC iSchool, a high school in Manhattan, worked for 9 weeks to create works of activist art with art teacher Gretel Smith. We were lucky enough to have Stephen Duncomb and Steve Lambert from the Center for…
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The Crossroads Project
Read more: The Crossroads Project“The mandate for great and difficult achievement is manifest in the message coming from the science of sustainability and climate change. Yet information alone will not take us where we need to go; science needs the arts to compel a…
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52 weeks in Abu Dhabi
Read more: 52 weeks in Abu DhabiA coalition of international artists has begun a year-long protest against the mistreatment and exploitation of migrant workers building Abu Dhabi’s £17bn cultural hub, including the world’s largest Guggenheim and a branch of the Louvre. Every week for the next…
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Cliteracy
Read more: CliteracyAccording to the artist: “CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws, 2012 is mixed media project that explores a paradox; the global obsession with sexualizing female bodies in a world that is illiterate when it comes to female sexuality. CLITERACY is a new…
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Wearable Portable Architecture
Read more: Wearable Portable ArchitectureThe “Wearable/Portable Architecture project” discussed the possibilities of having a locale create portable architecture based on the conditions of its environmental, urban and cultural conditions. It is structured to find ways in providing new arguments and sustaining an artistic impetus…
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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…