Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Google Features 12 Female Artists To Celebrate International Women’s Day
Read more: Google Features 12 Female Artists To Celebrate International Women’s DayGoogle is honoring female artists and their stories this International Women’s Day. On Thursday, the tech company will feature 12 interactive illustrations or “Google Doodles” on the search platform’s homepage. The artists are from 12 countries, including the U.S., Japan,…
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Threads of Resistance
Read more: Threads of ResistanceA juried exhibition of fiber art created by the Artist Circle Alliance to protest the Trump administration’s actions and policies. This is a traveling exhibition to 13 venues across the U.S. All work in the exhibition, as well as the…
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“STAND UP FOR SOMETHING” Oscars 2018
Read more: “STAND UP FOR SOMETHING” Oscars 2018The American rapper’s performance of ‘Stand Up for Something’ with singer Andra Day has gone down as one of the highlights of this year’s Academy Awards. Common used his Oscars performance to condemn Donald Trump’s “hate” and the National Rifle…
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Chinese ‘naked’ wedding celebrations focus on love – not money
Read more: Chinese ‘naked’ wedding celebrations focus on love – not moneyTen couples covered in body paint wearing only their underwear have celebrated their “naked weddings” at Hangzhou Paradise amusement park in Zhejiang province. The couples, some of whom have been married for many years, said they were rejecting modern Chinese…
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Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) – ONGOING working organization
Read more: Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) – ONGOING working organizationThe Haitian Creole word “konbit” denotes the idea of similar talents joining together to work towards a common goal. The founders — a group of photographers, educators, and artists — came up with the idea for Fotokonbit a few years…
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The Protest Banner Lending Library
Read more: The Protest Banner Lending LibraryThe Protest Banner Lending Library is a space for people to gain skills to learn to make their own banners, a communal sewing space where we support each other’s voices, and a place where people can check out handmade banners…
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The Reality of Small Differences
Read more: The Reality of Small DifferencesAn exhibition of textile-based work by disabled artists, organised in protest at the inaccessibility of an exhibition by a popular artist, when it came to Leeds. Local disabled people were angry and upset when they discovered that Grayson Perry’s popular…
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Shoddy, a disability arts exhibition
Read more: Shoddy, a disability arts exhibitionA disability / textile arts project, challenging assumptions about disabled artists & highlighting shoddy treatment of disabled people by current government: https://shoddyexhibition.wordpress.com/ Shoddy is the name for new cloth created from woollen waste and recycled fabric. This original meaning is…
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Flexin’ in My Complexion
Read more: Flexin’ in My ComplexionKheris Rogers, an 11-year-old entrepreneur from Los Angeles, has made history at New York Fashion Week as the youngest fashion designer ever to present. Kheris became an internet sensation earlier this year after her sister posted photos of her promoting…
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Banksy’s new artwork takes aim at arms trade
Read more: Banksy’s new artwork takes aim at arms tradeA new piece of art by Banksy was unveiled in London on Monday in a protest targeting one of the world’s largest arms fairs. The work will be displayed for a week at Art the Arms Fair, an exhibition set…