Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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DR Congo: performing for change
Read more: DR Congo: performing for changeDriving along an ordinary dirt road, it’s hard to miss the Goma Cultural Centre with its bright blue gate, emblazoned with the Congolese flag. “As you can see, we are proud to be Congolese around here,” said Belamy Paluku, a…
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Thrive Collective
Read more: Thrive CollectiveThrive Collective mobilizes students, parents, artists, and community stakeholders to partner with public schools for transformational change. They function both as a matchmaker and direct service provider of arts and mentoring programs that cultivate the character and competencies necessary for…
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RAISE IT UP, MAKE AN IMPACT!
Read more: RAISE IT UP, MAKE AN IMPACT!IMAPCT are youth activists who view the creative arts and leadership training as a way to develop ourselves and change the world in a positive way. They believe that they must be the message that bring through hardwork, focus, discipline,…
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The SOA Cycle
Read more: The SOA Cycle“SOA Cycle, and what it later became, which is called the Democracy Cycle, is a group of seven large works that approach the question of democracy. What is democracy? How is it constructed? How is it implemented? Is it something…
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A Handmaid’s Tale of Protest
Read more: A Handmaid’s Tale of ProtestIn state capitals and street protests, women’s rights activists have been wearing red robes and white bonnets based on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the 1985 novel that is now a series on Hulu. Silent, heads bowed, the activists in crimson robes…
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Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic iceberg
Read more: Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic icebergThe stunt aims to show the impact of climate change by live streaming the sculpture melting. A climate change group is raising half a million dollars with the goal of carving President Donald Trump’s face into an arctic iceberg. The…
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Shine MSD
Read more: Shine MSDShine, written by Stoneman Douglas students Sawyer Garrity and Andrea Peña in response to the tragic shooting at their school on February 14, 2018 to inspire unity, hope, and change. MSD alum Brittani Kagan collaborated with students and faculty to…
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‘RBG’ documentary reveals how Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a meme — and why that’s so surprising
Read more: ‘RBG’ documentary reveals how Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a meme — and why that’s so surprisingThe Ginsburg without photoshopped sunglasses and a crown fueled a revolution with lawsuits instead of protests. She believed in incremental progress instead of bold gestures. She was projected to be a conciliator on the court, not its preeminent liberal dissenter.…
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Artist and Activist Niki Lopez Helps Trauma Survivors Through Art
Read more: Artist and Activist Niki Lopez Helps Trauma Survivors Through ArtArtist and activist Niki Lopez is a survivor. From age 11 to 25, she was trapped in a religious cult in Georgia, where she was separated from the rest of her family. The cult’s leader sexually abused her. But in…
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Clarion Alley Mural Project
Read more: Clarion Alley Mural ProjectThe Mission of CAMP is to support and produce socially engaged and aesthetically diverse public art as a grassroots community-based, artist-run organization based in San Francisco. Clarion Alley Mural Project is a fiscally sponsored project of Independent Arts & Media.…