Projects tagged "public art"

Honduran Graffiti Artist Uses Street Art to Protest Violence
Practitioner:
Urban Maeztro
Date:
Aug 1 2012

In the capital of one of the world's most dangerous countries, a hooded, masked man jumped out of a car on an assault mission.

Howitcouldbedifferent.org - a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social change
Practitioner:
Hicbd
Date:
Apr 24 2013

Have you ever wanted to see current or potential innovations for poverty or the environment without having to do a lot of researching or reading? Have you ever thought of an idea and wanted to tell the world about it and get feedback? Howitcouldbedifferent.org was founded for these purposes - to enable people to easily see, share, and suggest ideas in different categories.

Natural Intervention
Practitioner:
Zonenkinder
Date:
Jan 1 2006

German Forests Come Alive Through Creative 'Natural Intervention '

"Human Cost" Oily Protest at the Tate
Practitioner:
Liberate Tate
Date:
Apr 20 2011

On the one-year anniversary of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, artist-activists at Liberate Tate staged a guerrilla performance in the Tate Britain galleries to highlight the museum's ties to BP.

We Declare The World as Our Canvass
Practitioner:
Street Art Utopia
Date:
Mar 13 2013

The 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 space, maybe...not sure, but it is public art with various messages...

Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public Art
Practitioner:
Mexican Activists
Date:
Mar 6 2012

Huff Post Latino Politics
The Huffington Post

While drug-related deaths continue to escalate as the Mexican drug war wages on, Mexican youth have resorted to peaceful and artistic forms of protest against the violence.

Last Sunday, activists met on Mexico City's Zocalo Square in an effort to demonstrate against the war. They covered the public space with chalk outlines of human bodies.

Connecting Peace and Valentine's Day
Practitioner:
Valentine Peace Project (VPP)
Date:
Feb 14 2013

Valentine Peace Project (VPP) Community Valentine actions started on the streets of Los Angeles with the sharing of thousands of poems on peace and expressions of love given out wrapped around carnations and later Fairtrade roses. Students also made paper flowers to give out with their own written reflections or submissions selected from Valentinepeaceproject.org.

Cross-Border Communication
Practitioner:
Broken City Lab
Date:
Nov 1 2009

From Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: Produced by the Windsor, Canada-based collective Broken City Lab—an artist-led interdisciplinary research group—Cross-Border Communication was a performative public art project that took place in November 2009 between the cities of Windsor and Detroit, which are separated by the Detroit River. For three nights, Broken City Lab projected a series of messages across the river which were visible in Detroit.

Park(ing) Day: Global Movement for More Urban Open Space
Practitioner:
Park(ing) DAY
Date:
Sep 20 2013

In 2005, Rebar, a design studio in San Francisco, transformed a single metered parking space into a temporary public park. The area where this two-hour park took place was one that lacked public open space. This was the first Park(ing) Day project.

Stop Telling Women to Smile
Practitioner:
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Date:
Mar 1 2013

Stop Telling Women to Smile is a street art project by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh that addresses gender based street harassment.

Street harassment is a serious issue that affects women world wide. This project attempts to take women's voices, and faces, and put them in the street - creating a presence for women in an environment where women are a lot of times made to feel uncomfortable and unsafe - outside in the street.

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