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Practitioner:

Date:

Apr 26 2018

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening to the public on April 26, 2018, will become the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence.

Gramsci Monument

Practitioner:

Thomas Hirschhorn

Date:

Aug 1 2013

A Summer Place in the South Bronx

Art and Restorative Justice: Transformative Healing Through Expression

Practitioner:

Young New Yorkers, Project Reset, Centre for Justice Innovation, Centre for Art Law

Date:

Jan 14 2020

Rooted in Native American and indigenous practices,[11] restorative justice is a set of principles and practices that aims to help communities heal from conflict and harm by developing a common understanding of the root causes and effects.[12] Restorative justice can occur in a variety of different contexts: in the workplace, at schools and within, or instead of, the criminal justice system.

"Your body is a battleground"

Practitioner:

Barbara Kruger

Date:

Jun 30 1989

A woman’s head is bisected by a line that splits her face into positive and negative halves. Over the image, a commanding text, stated in the second person, reads: “Your body is a battleground.”

‘forward-thinking’ art installation about climate change

Practitioner:

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Date:

Oct 16 2024

Rice University’s O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science now houses an immersive public art installation titled “Climate Parliament,” a thought-provoking work by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Commissioned by Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts for the Rice Public Art collection, the interactive artwork engages visitors with a dynamic experience that addresses the growing global climate crisis.

Unleashing the Power of Art Through Artistic Resources: PIGMENT TOKYO Creates a Canvas Embracing People, Knowledge, and the Art of Tomorrow

Practitioner:

PIGMENT TOKYO

Date:

Jan 1 2015

Established in 2015 in the Tennōzu neighborhood of Tokyo, and attracting industry professionals and art enthusiasts from both Japan and abroad, PIGMENT TOKYO has emerged as an art supply store specializing in the materials and tools used in traditional Japanese painting, such as mineral pigments, washi paper, and brushes. However, it’s more than just a store.

Antoine Hunter is Deaf and Hard of hearing! Express

Practitioner:

Antoine Hunter

Date:

Jun 29 2009

I met Antoine in 2012, when I first found out I was going deaf, and attended my first ASL Meetup in San Francisco. At that time I was only moderately hard of hearing (HOH), and had no idea what was to come. I didn't stay in the San Francisco Bay Area long to get too involved in the Deaf community.

Unforgotten Campaign

Practitioner:

Unforgotten Campaign

Date:

Apr 27 2015

Blair Holt was shot and killed while he shielded another classmate from the bullets a gunman sprayed on a CTA bus in Chicago in 2007. His father is a police officer and his mother is a fire department chief, and that’s what they had taught him to do.

Under the same sky

Practitioner:

Tahir Ün

Date:

Sep 1 2017

"Under the Same Sky" bearing the name and the first part of my project completed. I collected the letters written to 40 Armenian young people from 40 random Turkish young people. The mutual translations of all letters and video subtitles were made. Letters and photographs are handed out to young people, friendships are being established.

In music video, seminarian at Belen Jesuit Prep uses rap to tackle coronavirus, global concerns

Practitioner:

Brother Michael Martinez

Date:

Apr 6 2020

WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A seminarian and faculty member at a South Florida school is taking a creative approach to engaging with students about challenging issues during this time of uncertainty, including the coronavirus pandemic. He made a rap video.

City Forest Mural

Practitioner:

Aretha Brown Amplify, Converse

Date:

Apr 8 2021

The sneaker brand Converse has commissioned an indigenous artist in Australia to create a gigantic mural with a surprising twist. The Melbourne mural plays homage to indigenous urban identity and was painted with a special type of pollution-absorbing paint that “cleans the air,” according to the agency behind the project, Amplify.

Protesters with fake blood, baby dolls and shackles picket Supreme Court justice’s home

Practitioner:

Pro-Choice Activists

Date:

Jun 20 2022

Pro-choice activists protested outside Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Virginia home on Saturday ahead of the apex court’s decision on a landmark case constitutionally protecting a woman’s right to safe abortion. The activists, part of a group called Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, donned clothes soaked in fake blood, held baby dolls and carried signs with slogans such as “Abortion on demand and without apology”.

Uncle Sam's Cultural Dissonance

Practitioner:

Justin Quinn

Date:

Mar 10 2014

Uncle Sam's Cultural Dissonance looks at the issues facing The United States, including Canada and Mexico. In countries like the United States, where some states are dotted with countless lakes and many people live within easy reach of an ocean, it may be easy to assume that drinking and recreational waters are limitless. This is absurd. This series focuses in on excessive overuse in by agricultural, residential, and industrial sectors.

Beirut Graffiti Artist Uses His Murals to Unite A Fragmented City

Practitioner:

Yazan Halwani

Date:

Jan 1 2011

Yazan Halwani is a young Beiruti artist who paints murals of revered Lebanese and Arab figures on prominent walls in a bid to help overcome sectarianism in this fragmented city. “What I try to do,” he explains down a fuzzy line from Beirut, “is write the stories of the city, on its own walls – creating a memory for the city.”

I am not coronavirus: The protest of a young Chinese-Italian against xenophobia in Italy

Practitioner:

a Chinese-Italian

Date:

Feb 2 2020

Massimiliano Martigli Jiang was born in Wenzhou, China but moved with his parents to Italy when he was still a child. The 29 year-old grew up in Italy and considers himself as much Italian as Chinese.

1-800-273-8255

Practitioner:

Alessia Cara, Khalid

Date:

Apr 27 2017

Rapper Logic's song "1-800-273-8255" may have helped prevent a significant number of suicides around the time of its release, according to a study published Monday.

"Kitchenware Revolution" to protest Icelandic financial crisis

Practitioner:

Hördur Torfason, Icelanders

Date:

Jan 20 2009

In 2008, Iceland was in turmoil. There was a systematic failure of its three main commercial banks. The Economist called the collapse the largest suffered by any country in history, relative to Iceland’s population size. In response to what was seen as government inertia, protests began to take place from around October of that year. However, the real fun began in January 2009.

Pandora's Project

Practitioner:

TECHO International

Date:

Oct 31 2012

It was October 31st, 2012, when a new artist appeared on social media. In a series of video clips, she proposed with a soft and slow speech that Peru hide its poverty. Her project consisted of installing vinyl pieces to avoid what she called "the visual pollution." She titled the project Don't be poor, be fashion(able).