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Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals
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“Don’t Call Me Chief”: Native Artists Protest Racist NFL Mascots
Read more: “Don’t Call Me Chief”: Native Artists Protest Racist NFL MascotsPHOENIX — As Super Bowl LVII was getting underway in Glendale, Arizona, on February 12, artist and Apache Skateboards founder Douglas Miles (San Carlos Apache, Akimel O’odham) was protesting racist mascots in the NFL by painting a mural-style portrait of…
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When Art Meets Science: The Hyberbolic Crochet Coral Reef
Read more: When Art Meets Science: The Hyberbolic Crochet Coral ReefThe “Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef,” a unique exhibition and thought-provoking fusion of science, conservation, mathematics, and art, is on display in Washington, D.C., at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. By engaging local communities to crochet coral reefs, the…
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Bus Regulation: The Musical – The Trilogy
Read more: Bus Regulation: The Musical – The TrilogyBus Regulation: The Musical (2019 – 2023) is a Trilogy of roller-skating Musicals inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Starlight Express’ performed in three of the UK’s biggest post-industrial city-regions – Greater Manchester, Strathclyde and Merseyside – in collaboration with local…
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Mustang
Read more: MustangBreaking the Silence: The Importance of Mustang Eylem Atakav on how Mustang offers an important challenge to perceptions of gender and female sexuality in Turkey. As Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s acclaimed debut film Mustang screens at the ICA, Eylem Atakav discusses…
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Unity, Democracy and Courage
Read more: Unity, Democracy and CourageOne of the most pressing questions before us in the United States now is how to resolve the tension between our personal visions and needs, on the one hand, and the demands of being a member of a community, on…
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Silence = Death
Read more: Silence = DeathThis is a prime example of the marriage of art and activism. The Silence = Death poster is simple but extremely powerful representation of the obstacles the AIDS movement was facing (suppression of gay people + their problems, lack of…
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Nikkolas Smith: Art Can Help Show That Black Lives Matter. It Can Also Lead to Activism
Read more: Nikkolas Smith: Art Can Help Show That Black Lives Matter. It Can Also Lead to ActivismWhen I watched them kill Elijah McClain, I couldn’t make any art for days. It had been week after week after week of gut-wrenching stories of Black lives taken from this earth too early. I wasn’t sure if I could…
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The Monument Quilt Project
Read more: The Monument Quilt ProjectThe Monument Quilt is a large quilt that serves as a memorial for survivors of rape and abuse. It contains over 3,000 stories from individuals who have experienced gender-based violence, and allows visitors to add their own stories by writing,…
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The Pussy Hat Project in The Women’s March
Read more: The Pussy Hat Project in The Women’s MarchThe pink “pussy hats” in The Women’s March were created by a group of activists and knitters, including Krista Suh and Jayna Zweiman. The hats were designed as a form of protest and a symbol of resistance to the new…
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NFL-Indigenous activists to protest Kansas City Chiefs name, ‘tomahawk chop’
Read more: NFL-Indigenous activists to protest Kansas City Chiefs name, ‘tomahawk chop’Native American groups are expected to protest the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, calling for the AFC champions to drop their name and logo as they take on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 57. The Chiefs wear the arrowhead…
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‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on protesters
Read more: ‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on protestersMelissa is a down-to-earth, friendly woman in her 50s, and it seems that she has always met life with a certain amount of courage. She grew up on another continent, and after early motherhood, then divorce and a first career…
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‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on protesters
Read more: ‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on protestersMelissa is a down-to-earth, friendly woman in her 50s, and it seems that she has always met life with a certain amount of courage. She grew up on another continent, and after early motherhood, then divorce and a first career…