Projects tagged
Print & Design
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General Idea and the AIDS crises
Read more: General Idea and the AIDS crisesThe Canadian artist collective General Idea found its drive in the AIDS epidemic, becoming aesthetically and conceptually refined in the in the 1970s and ’80s, after long forays into absurdity and performances evocative of Dada and Fluxus. A retrospective presented…
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Avy Search and Rescue Drone
Read more: Avy Search and Rescue DroneA rescue drone for refugees in danger whilst traveling across the Mediterranean Sea. Last year alone, 3,500 refugees perished attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea. The Avy Search and Rescue Drone is specifically designed to help refugee boats. The drone…
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“Jesus Was The First To Decriminalize Sex Work”
Read more: “Jesus Was The First To Decriminalize Sex Work”A big yellow banner hangs off the Central Methodist Church in Cape Town, South Africa proclaiming that *”Jesus was the first to decriminalise sex work – John 8:7″* “Reverend Alan Storey of the Central Methodist Mission, together with members of…
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How ‘Animal Farm’ Gave Hope to Stalin’s Refugees
Read more: How ‘Animal Farm’ Gave Hope to Stalin’s RefugeesReading the introduction to Animal Farm by Christopher Hitchens a few years ago, I was stunned to learn that George Orwell, then a struggling writer in London, worked by letter with a group of refugees to publish the novel in…
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Three Billboards—Beyond Ebbing, Missouri
Read more: Three Billboards—Beyond Ebbing, MissouriThe Oscar-nominated crime drama has inspired activists around the world to put up massive signs to call attention to social issues. In the fictional town of Ebbing, Missouri, it seems like everyone—the town priest, the kids at the local high…
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The Protest Banner Lending Library
Read more: The Protest Banner Lending LibraryThe Protest Banner Lending Library is a space for people to gain skills to learn to make their own banners, a communal sewing space where we support each other’s voices, and a place where people can check out handmade banners…
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#MuslimVDay
Read more: #MuslimVDay“In these apocalyptic Islamophobic times, laughing in the face of the resistance can sometimes be the best medicine.” That may sound like the trailer to a good-bad movie, but that’s how Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed describes her awesome Muslim Valentine’s Day…
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Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protest
Read more: Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protestLocal artist fnnch wants San Francisco to decriminalize certain types of art. You’re not seeing things: A whopping 450 “honey bears”—variations on the immediately recognizable and widely imitated bear-shaped honey bottles sold in seemingly every store in America–appeared all over…
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Speech/Acts at ICA Philly
Read more: Speech/Acts at ICA PhillyIn “Speech/Acts,” a group exhibition organized by Meg Onli at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Tiona Nekkia McClodden stood out as artists who take up voices, histories, and experiences that can help audiences move…
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10 Rappers Turned Social Activists-Vince Staples
Read more: 10 Rappers Turned Social Activists-Vince StaplesVince Staples mentioned Long Beach’s Ramona Park approximately 80 times on his debut album Summertime ’06 and even allotted the park two of its own tracks: “Ramona Park Legend Pt. 1” and “Ramona Park Legend Pt. 2.” “The sun come…