Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEA
Read more: SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEATROY, N.Y. Three loud blasts from a steam whistle screamed out as the rain drizzled on the riverbank here. And the fleet of seven eclectic handmade ships slowly moved away. Only minutes before their launching, on Friday around noon,…
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National AIDS Memorial
Read more: National AIDS MemorialThe Quilt was conceived in November of 1985 by long-time human rights activist, author and lecturer Cleve Jones. Since the 1978 assassinations of gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone, Jones had helped organize the annual candlelight…
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BLM MURAL PROJECT – TACOMA
Read more: BLM MURAL PROJECT – TACOMAArtists Dionne Bonner, Kenya Adams, Gwen Jones, and Charles Taylor planned the creation of the Black Lives Matter mural in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Additional artists Breyahna Monet and Danielle Jordan joined the project in the second…
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Intrabody Wireless Network
Read more: Intrabody Wireless Network“Intrabody Wireless Network” is a show of eighteen drawings and collages by Dmitry Borshch, in which he shows the architecture of such networks, their components referred to as nanomachines (biological, physical, chemical sensors, routers, antennas, interface devices), options for communicating…
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Use Art to heal the world
Read more: Use Art to heal the worldI must first come clean, I studied fine arts in high school from years nine to 12. Since my studies were concluded, I had never held a paintbrush again. Although the teachers were largely inspiring and wonderfully bohemian as one…
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Remembering
Read more: RememberingIn 2009, the dissident artist created a work to honour the thousands of children who died in the Sichuan earthquake. He recalls how the project, Remembering, angered China’s rulers – and changed his career for ever This is an edited…
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Street Art Activism: What White People Call Vandalism
Read more: Street Art Activism: What White People Call VandalismIn this article, author Caroline Choi highlights different grafiti artists and their stories. These artists use their talent to tell their stories, ones that might not get to be told otherwise. She goes into the history of grafiti, and how…
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CFA San Francisco Member Brings Black Art and Activism to Students
Read more: CFA San Francisco Member Brings Black Art and Activism to Students“As an educator, I want people to have a sense of empowerment. I want them to have ownership of their own creative experience. It’s a very humane thing knowing we are inherently creative.” CFA member Mark Allan Davis’s “artivism” is…
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Cloud Studies
Read more: Cloud StudiesForensic Architecture’s Cloud Studies is a project that investigates the impact of toxic clouds on colonised and oppressed communities. The clouds, originating from sources like tear gas, industrial emissions, chemical weapons, and forest fires, often go unaddressed due to doubt…
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Change the Ref Organisation Campaign Puts Children at the Heart of Warzone’s
Read more: Change the Ref Organisation Campaign Puts Children at the Heart of Warzone’sEnergy BBDO launches its latest activation on behalf of Change The Ref, a leading gun-control organisation which was formed to empower our Future Leaders. The activation, ‘New Recruits’ is Change the Refs latest effort to ignite a movement to ban…