Projects tagged
Print & Design
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Your body is a battleground
Read more: Your body is a battlegroundUntitled (Your Body is a Battleground) is an iconic 1989 silkscreen portrait made by artist, feminist and activist Barbara Kruger . Though the poster was meant for the pro-choice march on April 9th, 1989, in DC, the portrait is now…
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Equity and Access: Art & Protest in Spain
Read more: Equity and Access: Art & Protest in SpainSpanish street artist El Rey de la Ruina uses murals and installations to critique inequality and government policies. His works, especially during the pandemic, voiced concerns over healthcare, housing, and public resources in Madrid’s urban spaces. The nature of these…
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Andrea Bowers: Art for Social Justice
Read more: Andrea Bowers: Art for Social Justice“Artist Andrea Bowers creates powerful works addressing immigration, gender violence, and environmental justice. Her large-scale drawing ‘No Olvidado’ memorializes migrants who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, calling attention to the human cost of border policies.” Bowers artworks and site specific…
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt— NAMES Project
Read more: The AIDS Memorial Quilt— NAMES ProjectThe AIDS pandemic began in the early 1980s and brought with it a surge of emotions from the public: they were afraid, angry, fearful and defiant. The arrival of AIDS also brought with it a condemnation of the LGBT community.…
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‘0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why Anti-Elon Musk Satire Is Flourishing in Britain
Read more: ‘0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why Anti-Elon Musk Satire Is Flourishing in BritainThe mischievous posters began appearing all over London in the past two months. On the side of an East London bus stop, one of them shows Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, emerging from a Tesla’s roof with his hand…
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AUSSIE Posters
Read more: AUSSIE PostersI am traveling Australia sticking up 1000 poster of Monga Khan, the Aussie folk hero…. The photograph of Monga Khan was taken 100 years ago in Australia. He was one of thousands of people who applied for exemptions to the…
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Art Everywhere
Read more: Art EverywhereCENTRO San Antonio’s Art Everywhere Project will celebrate its 5th anniversary in May. As of May 2024, the project had seen numerous artists from the city’s urbancore decorate areas of the city with elaborate murals reflecting the city’s history and…
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Rokudenashiko and Her Man-Boat
Read more: Rokudenashiko and Her Man-BoatMegumi Igarashi—who goes by the name Rokudenashiko, or “good-for-nothing” in Japanese—is known as a “vagina artist” in her native Japan. Among the pieces she’s created are a vagina chandelier, a remote-controlled vagina car, and a 3-D-printed kayak modeled after her…
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Missing Faces for Missing Girls
Read more: Missing Faces for Missing GirlsBorn in Nigeria in 1975, Péju Alatise, is a multimedia artist focusing on the experience of women and girls, particularly in her native country but with resonance across the world. Missing (2014), by Peju Alatise, is a series of panels…
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The Sea of Escape
Read more: The Sea of Escape“I collected 83 images of disappeared women from Chinese social media. I printed them out, cut them, organized them, and made them into a tarot deck called “Missing Persons Notice.’” “This is a very heavy deck. Several times, I opened…