Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Break-dancing for social justice in Tunisia
Read more: Break-dancing for social justice in TunisiaIn Tunisia, a country gripped by economic uncertainty and still in the midst of rebuilding its identity after the Arab Spring, hip-hop culture is viewed as part of an ongoing dissident movement. Just a few events, such as the recent…
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Health Care Not Wealth Care: Posters on Health Activism and Social Justice
Read more: Health Care Not Wealth Care: Posters on Health Activism and Social JusticeThe Center for the Study of Political Graphics and the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation have combined forces to bring 75 powerful and engaging poster works on broad issues of health care to audiences traditionally excluded from the art world in…
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The project: Give cameras to people with HIV. The pictures: Joy, grief, desire, hope
Read more: The project: Give cameras to people with HIV. The pictures: Joy, grief, desire, hopeFor artist Vasilios Papapitsios, going public with his HIV status has been gradual. He was diagnosed at age 19, but about three years passed before he wrote an anonymous piece about his experience for a North Carolina zine. He presented…
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Activism Through Art by an Angry Feminist Whale
Read more: Activism Through Art by an Angry Feminist WhaleInspired by the ecological disaster unfolding across the planet and driven by empowering underrepresented people, Moule, a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer, creates art that makes a statement. Dressed in a magenta blazer and wearing bright pink lipstick, she is…
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A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’
Read more: A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’The idea was born in an instant. A curator attending an opening at the Baltimore Museum of Art was immediately captivated by a painting from an artist she had barely heard of, Mary Lovelace O’Neal. Three months later, a five-decade…
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Climate activists painted murals on two blocks of San Francisco streets
Read more: Climate activists painted murals on two blocks of San Francisco streetsClimate activists took to the streets in San Francisco and painted murals directly on two blocks of the city Financial District’s main thoroughfare. The murals on Montgomery Street were painted as part of the Strike for Climate Justice protest that…
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Caged ‘Children’ Appear Throughout Des Moines Amid Iowa Caucus to Remind Voters of ‘The Terrors Enacted in Your Name’
Read more: Caged ‘Children’ Appear Throughout Des Moines Amid Iowa Caucus to Remind Voters of ‘The Terrors Enacted in Your Name’Caucus-goers in Des Moines will arrive to a disturbing sight on Monday, with dozens of chain-link cages appearing to hold migrant children cropping up across the city overnight. On Monday, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services…
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The Ugly Conference
Read more: The Ugly ConferenceLast November, when you Googled the phrase “ugly Black woman,” Vanessa Rochelle Lewis’s photograph was the second to come up. “Which I’m offended by,” says Lewis, a Bay Area–based artist and writer, “since I’m an Aries and I like to…
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Australian artist Badiucao’s exhibition finally shown in Melbourne after China ‘threat’ ordeal
Read more: Australian artist Badiucao’s exhibition finally shown in Melbourne after China ‘threat’ ordealThis month, the art of Chinese dissident Badiucao has finally seen the light of day in Melbourne — more than a year after the Australian artist’s Hong Kong exhibition was cancelled due to threats reportedly made by Chinese authorities. Reflecting…
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Arcadia Earth
Read more: Arcadia EarthAt ‘Arcadia Earth,’ Dazzle Illuminates Danger Using augmented reality, virtual reality and installations of light and art, the creators of this pop-up exhibition hope to inspire action on climate change. By Laurel Graeber Oct. 23, 2019 The creators of “Arcadia…