Projects tagged
Print & Design
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Operation Paydirt
Read more: Operation Paydirt“Operation Paydirt is a multidisciplinary, artist-driven project advancing a solution to the devastating problem of lead (Pb) contaminated soil that puts thousands of children at risk for severe learning disabilities and behavioral problems. The goals of the project are to…
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Real Women
Read more: Real WomenThe Dove Campaign for Real Beauty is a worldwide marketing/public relations campaign launched in 2004 that includes advertisements, video, workshops, sleepover events and the publication of a book and the production of a play. The principle behind the campaign is…
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Smithsonian Collection of “Occupy Wall Street” Posters on View at Wesleyan
Read more: Smithsonian Collection of “Occupy Wall Street” Posters on View at WesleyanAfter collecting street art and memorabilia from “Occupy Wall Street” since the fall of 2011, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has lent its collection of Occupy Wall Street posters to Wesleyan’s Davison Art Center. The posters will make…
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Flip the Debt Clock
Read more: Flip the Debt ClockOn Monday, a grassroots, anti–corporate tax-dodging coalition called Flip the Debt crashed a “Fix the Debt” party at St. Anselm’s College in New Hampshire hosted by Honeywell CEO David Cote to tell the gathered deficit hawk disciples that paying their…
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Social ID Bureau
Read more: Social ID BureauIntro The Social ID Bureau is handing-out personal identification cards for a limited number of Facebook Social Network citizens, interested in alpha testing. Be the first among your friends to pick-up your social identification card and explore the future. What…
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Jay Shells Drops “Rap Quotes,” His Most Site-Specific Street Art Project Yet
Read more: Jay Shells Drops “Rap Quotes,” His Most Site-Specific Street Art Project YetJAY SHELLS DROPS “RAP QUOTES,” HIS MOST SITE-SPECIFIC STREET ART PROJECT YET By Aymann Ismail | March 25, 2013 – 12:30PM After schooling New Yorkers on etiquette via numerous unsanctioned interventions, artist Jay Shells channeled his love of hip hop…
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Dyke Action Machine!
Read more: Dyke Action Machine!Taken from the website: Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) is a two-person public art project founded in 1991 by artist Carrie Moyer and photographer Sue Schaffner. Between 1991 and 2004 DAM! blitzed the streets of New York City with public art…
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Somalia guerrilla artists dare to paint reality
Read more: Somalia guerrilla artists dare to paint reality“I want to show the people how bad the troubles were,” says artist Muhiyidin Sharif Ibrahim of Mogadishu, Somalia. “That’s the message we’re going to send to people.” (Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times) External sources: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/19/world/la-fg-somalia-artists-20120920
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DC Comics to Publish Comic Books about Privilege and Power
Read more: DC Comics to Publish Comic Books about Privilege and PowerFollowing in the strong tradition of using graphic novels to explore social ills, DC Comics is releasing two new politically activist issues in their “New 52” series. The first is called “The Movement” and is written by Gail Simone. Simone…
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POC Zine Project Presents RACE RIOTS TOUR!
Read more: POC Zine Project Presents RACE RIOTS TOUR!This piece is about multiple layered “creative activism”. There is art, activism, and community building. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, a zine is a “noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter.”…