Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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eL Seed in the Battle Against Censorship in Tunisia
Read more: eL Seed in the Battle Against Censorship in TunisiaLast week, Tunisia’s tallest minaret went under the brush of the country’s hottest muralist. On the Jara Mosque in his hometown of Gabes, 31-year-old eL Seed painted a verse from the Quran preaching tolerance, a message meant for Salafist Islamists…
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Two Female Graffiti Artists in Afghanistan
Read more: Two Female Graffiti Artists in AfghanistanMeet Shamsia Hassani. At age 24, she is one of Afghanistan’s first female graffiti artists. An associate professor of sculpture at Kabul University, she was first introduced to graffiti in 2010 by British artist, Chu, during a week-long course in…
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Will Work for Empty Wallets
Read more: Will Work for Empty WalletsA mixture of a social cause with a creative vision, this visual art exhibit is dedicated to the millions of unemployed citizens and veteran’s in the United States. Constructed out of 1284 used empty wallets from over 2,000 donated nation…
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Max Factor 26 billboard improvement campaign launches the Billboard Liberation Front
Read more: Max Factor 26 billboard improvement campaign launches the Billboard Liberation FrontFor 35 years, the Billboard Liberation Front have been altering public advertisements in San Francisco under the cover of night, strategically changing words or phrases to invert the intended message of corporate sponsors. Considering their guerrilla reclamation of public space…
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The Exquisite Uterus
Read more: The Exquisite UterusThis project served as an educational tool to demystify the female body and bring awareness to the issues of reproductive rights and the ignorance that sometimes plagues common misconceptions about the reproductive system. I think this campaign is very successful…
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Anibal Lopez– One Ton of Books Dumped on Reforma Avenue
Read more: Anibal Lopez– One Ton of Books Dumped on Reforma AvenueAníbal López, also known by his government identification number A-153167, is a pioneer of performance art in Central America. ArtBus describes his work as, “Generally aimed at immersing viewers into the region’s social and political tensions, his works combine the…
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System Azure
Read more: System AzureIn 2003 Amsterdam police headquarters decided their security cameras needed a little bling after Jill Magid approached them through her company System Azure Security Ornamentation. Originally turned down as an artist proposal, Magid founded her company as a possible means…
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Street Art Used to Fill Urban Emptiness
Read more: Street Art Used to Fill Urban EmptinessIn his ongoing street art series “The Living Wall,” Russian artist Nikita Nomerz brings life to decrepit buildings in Russia by painting faces on them. Nomerz travels extensively around Russia and makes an effort to paint a character in each…
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New Craft Artists in Action
Read more: New Craft Artists in ActionMaria was psyched to travel to the Philippines where her hand-made basketball nets were well received. Invited with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things (Boston/Mass based) by Clara Balaguer and the Office of Culture and Design (Manila) she worked in…
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We Declare The World as Our Canvass
Read more: We Declare The World as Our CanvassThe website ‘Street art utopia’ has an amazing collection of pictures of street art from Belgium, NYC, to Brazil and Israel Palestine. Talented people sharing their art publicly for the streets and the world to see! Activism: reclaiming a public…