Projects tagged
North Africa
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Imagination Playground
Read more: Imagination PlaygroundWhen award-winning architect David Rockwell started spending time in playgrounds with his young children, he was disturbed by the lack of imagination and variation in the way kids interact with standardized playground equipment. He spent five years developing the Imagination…
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Access Denied
Read more: Access DeniedAccess Denied is a working project that started in 2015 that deals with inaccessible art spaces around Los Angeles. I am a physically disabled person who has been going to visit art shows for over 10 years and during that…
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7 Days of Garbage
Read more: 7 Days of GarbageGregg Segal — a California-based artist who is known for using the medium of photography to explore culture with the “sensibility of a sociologist” — asked family, friends, neighbors and other acquaintances to save their trash and recyclables for a…
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North Korean Artist Hopes Reverse Propaganda Will Change Lives Back Home
Read more: North Korean Artist Hopes Reverse Propaganda Will Change Lives Back HomeSong Byeok is one of the most acclaimed Korean artists living today. He is from North Korea, where he was a propaganda artist for the North Korean government for two decades. After defecting in 2002, Byeok has turned his prolific…
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STICK IT TO ‘EM!
Read more: STICK IT TO ‘EM!#stickit2em is an all-inclusive, anti-capitalist, & pro-planet justice movement, using the clever medium of stickers! “America is segregated and so is pollution. Race and class still matter and map closely with pollution, unequal protection, and vulnerability. Today, zip code is…
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You don’t like me? I’m gonna throw a party in front of your office window
Read more: You don’t like me? I’m gonna throw a party in front of your office windowOn Monday, May 22nd, trans children and teenagers from across the country threw a prom on the National Mall, a youth-led public celebration of trans joy at a time when more and more states are adopting viciously anti-trans legislation. The…
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César Chávez and the Migrants
Read more: César Chávez and the MigrantsThe play celebrates the life and legacy of the Mexican-American labor activist César Chávez. His early life as well as his partnership with Dolores Huerta, activism with the National Farm Workers Association, the 1968 grape boycott, and his ongoing commitment…
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SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEA
Read more: SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEATROY, N.Y. Three loud blasts from a steam whistle screamed out as the rain drizzled on the riverbank here. And the fleet of seven eclectic handmade ships slowly moved away. Only minutes before their launching, on Friday around noon,…
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The Hell of Copper
Read more: The Hell of CopperArtists Statement: Over the past few years Ghana has become one of the principal countries to receive electrical waste materials coming from Europe and the United States. In The Hell of Copper I wanted to be as precise as possible;…
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Fashion in Action
Read more: Fashion in ActionOn the opening day of the Spring/Summer 2011’s season of Mercedes Benz’s New York Fashion Week, former fashion editor, speaker, and fashion activist Michaela Angela Davis led a protest of approximately 20 black women, dressed in black suits, carrying signs…