Projects tagged
Print & Design
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Vienna Rye’s Zine and Instagram: A Space for Education
Read more: Vienna Rye’s Zine and Instagram: A Space for EducationInstagram and Zines have become a tool for activists worldwide, and Vienna Rye (@vrye) has amassed over 126,000 followers by promoting education, mutual aid, and advocacy. They are a self-taught visual artist and revolutionary community organizer, which translates into their…
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Journey of a Yellow Man
Read more: Journey of a Yellow ManSingaporean artist Lee Wen’s series Journey of a Yellow Man (1992–2012), one of his most famous and long-standing performances, was not simply a personal affront, it was a political affront. At the intersection of Asian art history, critical race theory, and migration…
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Myanmar coup: How citizens are protesting through art
Read more: Myanmar coup: How citizens are protesting through art“An atmosphere of fear and anger spread across Myanmar this week as millions of people awoke to find out the military had taken control, ousting the elected government. But how do you fight back in a country where protests have…
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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio
Read more: Ricardo Levins Morales Art StudioRicardo Levins Morales is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was born into the anti-colonial movement in Puerto Rico, and when his family moved to Chicago in 1967, he became interested in activism. After leaving high school…
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In Search of Magic – A Proposal for a New Constitution for The Republic of Iceland.
Read more: In Search of Magic – A Proposal for a New Constitution for The Republic of Iceland.The duo Libia Castro (b. 1970) & Ólafur Ólafsson (b. 1973) are the recipients of the Art Prize 2021 for their collective performance with the Magic Team In Search of Magic – A Proposal for a New Constitution for The…
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Kissing Doesn’t Kill and other projects
Read more: Kissing Doesn’t Kill and other projectsGran Fury was an AIDS activist artist collective from New York City consisting of 11 members, all artists – but action, not art, was the aim of the collective. Gran Fury member Loring McAlpin described the collective’s mass-market ambition to…
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The Domestic Violence Milk Carton Project
Read more: The Domestic Violence Milk Carton ProjectPeggy Digg’s The Domestic Violence Milk Carton Project consisted of an image printed by Tuscan Dairy Farms on over one million milk cartons, which were distributed during January and February of 1992 throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware,…
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Postcards for Gun Control
Read more: Postcards for Gun ControlThe installation consists on providing postcards to gallery visitors that they can use to mail their Elected Officials to advocate for gun control. The front of the postcard shows the photograph “Mommy, what is this?” (2018), which is the hand…
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Stop Telling Women to Smile
Read more: Stop Telling Women to Smilepublicly displayed posters feature the portraits of women, along with a quote relaying their experiences with street harassment. Fazlalizadeh hopes the captions speak directly to offenders by placing the posters outside in public spaces where harassment happens. External sources: http://stoptellingwomentosmile.com/
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Harris Reed is building a fantasy world for gender-fluid fashion
Read more: Harris Reed is building a fantasy world for gender-fluid fashionLast June, Harris Reed became a member of the “Class of 2020” — the crop of young fashion talent who graduated into an industry on rocky ground due to the pandemic. Over the eight months that have passed since earning…