Creative tactics that help bring about change

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women

  • Mending Baghdad

    Mending Baghdad
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    Nov 15 2003

    Mending Baghdad is a four-and-a-half-by-six-and-a-half-foot quilt memorializing Baghdad as it looked during the American bombing on the first nights of the Iraq war. The purpose of the project is to bring people together to do something symbolically curative for Iraq.…

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  • Project Impact

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    Nov 15 2003

    By Lauren Hersh, with Katie Cappiello, Artistic Director, The Arts Effect. It’s dark outside, 20 degrees, and we’ve taken to Super Bowl Boulevard in NYC with a team of teen girls who are passionate about ending modern day slavery. They’ve…

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  • Cliteracy

    Cliteracy
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    Nov 15 2003

    According to the artist: “CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws, 2012 is mixed media project that explores a paradox; the global obsession with sexualizing female bodies in a world that is illiterate when it comes to female sexuality. CLITERACY is a new…

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  • Miss Landmine

    Miss Landmine
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    Nov 15 2003

    A beauty contest for landmine victims challenges normal concepts of beauty. The search for beauty takes many forms. The traditional beauty pageant might be thought to be one of the less acceptable, concentrating as it does on conventional ideas of…

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  • Real Life Barbie

    Real Life Barbie
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    Nov 15 2003

    We have learnt that Barbie’s body is literally unattainable, but in a role reversal, Pennsylvania-based artist Nikolay Lamm shows us what Barbie would look like if she had the body of a real woman. Using the measurements of an average…

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  • Silver Action

    Silver Action
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    Nov 15 2003

    “Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. One of her best-known works to date is The Crystal Quilt (Minneapolis, 1987) a performance with 430 older women,…

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  • Missile Dick Chicks Take America

    Missile Dick Chicks Take America
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    Nov 15 2003

    Shortly after the events of 9/11, a group of NYC women came together in protest of the Bush Administration’s use of the terror attacks to justify war. Seeking out a new form of political protest, the women decided to respond…

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  • Women Are Heros

    Women Are Heros
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    Nov 15 2003

    Film correlating to the project of the same name by JR – a french street artist who works with large scale photography and wheat-paste. External sources: http://www.womenareheroes-lefilm.com/site_womenareheroes/ http://vimeo.com/15686678

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  • Mental Health Care Revolution: FEEL IT!

    Mental Health Care Revolution: FEEL IT!
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    Nov 15 2003

    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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  • A Feminist Tea Party

    A Feminist Tea Party
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    Nov 15 2003

    A Feminist Tea Party is an ongoing collaborative project by Caitlin Rueter and Suzanne Stroebe. Our project has evolved from its first incarnation as part of#class organized by Jen Dalton and William Powhida at Winkleman Galleryin New York, NY, where it lasted only an afternoon. Since then, we have…

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