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Activism
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POC Zine Project Presents RACE RIOTS TOUR!
Read more: POC Zine Project Presents RACE RIOTS TOUR!This piece is about multiple layered “creative activism”. There is art, activism, and community building. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, a zine is a “noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter.”…
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PAWA 254
Read more: PAWA 254Kenyan-based photographer Boniface Mwangi has captured his country’s political and civic turmoil since the controversial presidential election in 2007. The violence and disorder he witnesses daily motivated him to take action, setting up a creative hub for activism called PAWA…
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Womens Erotic Art
Read more: Womens Erotic ArtThe aim is to create an on line community that seeks to find new ways to articulate what it means to be an international women in relation to art and sexuality. International visual artists who are making cutting edge fine…
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Barbara Jones-Hogu and AFRICOBRA
Read more: Barbara Jones-Hogu and AFRICOBRAA Conversation With Barbara Jones-Hogu Words by Barbara Jones-Hogu In 1973, Edward Springs, the former director of the Studio Museum of Harlem, wrote, “AFRICOBRA—African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists—from their perspective as Afro-Americans are attempting to identify style and rhythm…
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Liberation art from the Church
Read more: Liberation art from the ChurchFrom Black Power to Migrants’ Power BY Robin Cembalest POSTED 01/22/13 As ’60s activist art enters museums, a new generation is creating an iconography of protest for today “There have been the singing nun and the flying nun, but the…
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Mental Health Care Revolution: FEEL IT!
Read more: Mental Health Care Revolution: FEEL IT!Artistic Activist, Charlotte Claire, is at the forefront of initiating revolutionary change in mental health care. Her project, The Babyfacedassassin, is dedicated to improving mental health care and inspiring people to care for their mental health. Mental Health Care Revolution:…
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“Hail to the Thief” : political art or creative activism?
Read more: “Hail to the Thief” : political art or creative activism?Established Cape Town based artist Brett Murray returns to Goodman Gallery Johannesburg with Hail to the Thief II. This body of satirical work continues his acerbic attacks on abuses of power, corruption and political dumbness seen in his 2010 Cape…
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Palas Por Pistolas
Read more: Palas Por PistolasPalas por Pistolas initiated in the city of Culiacán, a city in western Mexico with a high rate of deaths by gunshot. The botanical garden of Culiacán has been comissioning artist to do interventions in the park and my proposal…
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activists culture jam anti-Muslim ads in NYC subways
Read more: activists culture jam anti-Muslim ads in NYC subwaysNew York activists responded to a recent anti-Muslim subway campaign by plastering stickers over ads depicting the World Trade Center in flames, juxtaposed with text quoting the Koran. The day-glow orange and yellow stickers warn “Caution: This is war propaganda.…
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¿Cómo podemos expropiar a las entidades bancarias?
Read more: ¿Cómo podemos expropiar a las entidades bancarias?El albañil anarquista Lucio Urtubia falsificó miles de cheques del First National City Bank, en la segunda mitad de los años setenta, hasta prácticamente llevar el banco a la ruina. Urtubia donó el dinero así generado a diversos movimientos de…