Projects tagged
Print & Design
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‘I am not your scapegoat’: See the art created by Asian Americans in a year of anti-Asian hate
Read more: ‘I am not your scapegoat’: See the art created by Asian Americans in a year of anti-Asian hateIn mid-November, the nonprofit group Asian American Federation released 10 travel posters designed to subvert a question that can instantly get under the skin of any person of Asian descent in the United States: “Where are you really from?” At…
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“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?”
Read more: “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?”National Museum of Women In the Arts: To maintain their anonymity, group members wear gorilla masks in public and adopt the names of historic women artists, such as Käthe Kollwitz and Frida Kahlo, as pseudonyms. Guerrilla Girls posters first appeared…
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How Keith Haring used art for good
Read more: How Keith Haring used art for goodIt’s the radiant baby, the barking dog and the dancing man; the badges and the t-shirts; the unmissable mural spelling out CRACK IS WACK. Keith Haring’s career was short but spectacular, and he leaves behind a lasting legacy. From his…
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“Don’t Call Me Chief”: Native Artists Protest Racist NFL Mascots
Read more: “Don’t Call Me Chief”: Native Artists Protest Racist NFL MascotsPHOENIX — As Super Bowl LVII was getting underway in Glendale, Arizona, on February 12, artist and Apache Skateboards founder Douglas Miles (San Carlos Apache, Akimel O’odham) was protesting racist mascots in the NFL by painting a mural-style portrait of…
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Unity, Democracy and Courage
Read more: Unity, Democracy and CourageOne of the most pressing questions before us in the United States now is how to resolve the tension between our personal visions and needs, on the one hand, and the demands of being a member of a community, on…
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Silence = Death
Read more: Silence = DeathThis is a prime example of the marriage of art and activism. The Silence = Death poster is simple but extremely powerful representation of the obstacles the AIDS movement was facing (suppression of gay people + their problems, lack of…
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“I Still Believe in Our City” Asian Americans Standing Out for Themselves
Read more: “I Still Believe in Our City” Asian Americans Standing Out for ThemselvesAsian Americans standing up for themselves, the Black Lives Matter movement, and their home: New York City In 2020, as COVID-19 flared through New York City and NYC hospitals saw a spike of nearly 200,000 patients, Asian and Pacific Islanders…
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L.A. artist commemorates Monterey Park victims with portraits: ‘Remember them as they were’
Read more: L.A. artist commemorates Monterey Park victims with portraits: ‘Remember them as they were’When Jonathan D. Chang visits the 626, he often wears a black hoodie emblazoned with a colorful print of Guangong on the back. A military general from the Three Kingdoms era turned Taoist guardian deity, Guangong, or Guan Yu, is…
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United States of Attica
Read more: United States of AtticaIn September 1971, after years of mistreatment and months of simmering tensions, more than 1,200 of the 2,200 inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York took control of the prison in protest of its substandard conditions and…
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Politics, activism and cool cats by artist Meredith Stern at AS220 Project Space
Read more: Politics, activism and cool cats by artist Meredith Stern at AS220 Project Space“I really wanted to highlight the strength of the human condition. When we work together we’re stronger,” Meredith Stern says of her exhibition “Cooperation Cats: 10 years, 20 prints” at AS220’s Project Space, 93 Mathewson St., Providence, from Feb. 1…