Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action
Read more: The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and ActionThe Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action (https://theamplificationproject.com) is a community-led participatory public digital archive to which any artist and activist can document, preserve and share their work inspired, influenced, or affected by forced migration.…
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Feminists Paper Paris With Stark Posters Decrying Domestic Abuse
Read more: Feminists Paper Paris With Stark Posters Decrying Domestic AbuseA widespread but illegal campaign by a group calling itself “the Gluers” uses posters to denounce violence against women. It has become an effective — and ubiquitous — tool to raise awareness. On a recent mild night, a squad of…
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MASK art exhibit
Read more: MASK art exhibit“MASK” is an art exhibition that explores the uses and meanings of masks, and ones feelings about them. Masks throughout history have taken many forms and have served many purposes. They have been used in construction, scientific research, technical manufacturing,…
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#thisisnotamask Covid-19 Rubber Stamp Currency Intervention
Read more: #thisisnotamask Covid-19 Rubber Stamp Currency Intervention#thisisnotamask Covid-19 Pandemic Rubber Stamp Currency Intervention Website: https://thisisnotamask.tumblr.com/ For more information: Joseph DeLappe artist/activist – j.delappe@abertay.ac.uk Brent Richardson media artist – brent@BrentRich.com Let’s mask the presidents! ”#thisisnotamask” is a crowd sourcing initiative to invite volunteers to stamp masks onto…
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Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election
Read more: Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election“Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election” Kathy Aoki, Aileen Bassis, Sue Coe, Donna Coleman, Patricia Dahlman, Michael Dal Cerro, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Robyn Ellenbogen, Tim Fite, Robert Geshlider, Todd Hanson and Annakai Hayakawa Geshlider, Cheryl Harper,…
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When Luxury Stores Decorate Their Riot Barricades With Protest Art
Read more: When Luxury Stores Decorate Their Riot Barricades With Protest ArtThree months ago, when New York government officials ordered nonessential businesses closed to slow the spread of coronavirus, high-end retailers sheathed their stores in plywood barriers, as though readying for civil unrest. Did Louis Vuitton and Coach anticipate this human…
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The Scheherazade Project
Read more: The Scheherazade ProjectThe Scheherazade Project is a Performing Arts Non-profit based in Washington DC. Co-founders Lisa Leibow and Julia Alvarez were inspired by Scheherazade in the Arab classic 1001 Nights and created The Scheherazade Project. For more information, our website is https://thescheherazadeproject.org/The-Scheherazade-Project…
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Immigrant Yarn Project
Read more: Immigrant Yarn ProjectThe Immigrant Yarn Project (IYP), organized and created by Cindy Weil was a massive work of public and democratic (crowd-sourced), yarn-based art honoring our immigrant heritage and promoting tolerance, difference, and community. Weil reached out across the state and beyond…
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Caged Bird Songs and Other Stories
Read more: Caged Bird Songs and Other StoriesCaged Bird Songs ‘his wings are clipped and his feet are tied’ Maya Angelou believed in empathy as an empowering force in the world. In the time of coronavirus, we find our wings ‘clipped’ in various ways. The lucky among…
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The Wheelbarrow
Read more: The WheelbarrowEmpathy may be the cornerstone of any Global Justice movement, but how do we cultivate the conditions for empathy to thrive? The wheelbarrow symbolises something universally useful, practical and pleasingly straightforward. A space to deliver things in an efficient and…