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Gallery Projects

Blindfolding Statues in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (no title)
Practitioner
Oraculo Project, but the artist remains anonymous.
Date
Mar 13 2016

An artist in Brazil, who remains anonymous, placed red blindfolds on the eyes of statues across the city of Rio de Janeiro to protest the country's political crisis.

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The Radius Project
Practitioner
Black Lives/White Light, TableTribes
Date
Jun 9 2015

"Black Lives/White Light and TABLETRIBES, a D.C.-based tech startup, are coupling art and technology to create The Radius Project, which aims to take conversations surrounding Black Lives Matter beyond newsfeeds and comment sections...TABLETRIBES is a social networking app that allows users interested in similar topics to connect with each other offline...Their goal is to globally scale empathy development by developing opportunities for users to e

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Unwrapped
Practitioner
SAWCC
Date
Mar 1 2014

This performative art took place at a series called SUBLIME at the Brooklyn Museum, curated by the collective SAWCC (pronounced saucy)- South Asian Women's Creative Collective.

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The Guerrilla Girls Call Out Art-World Inequality
Practitioner
Guerrilla Girls
Date
Mar 22 2016

It’s women’s history month, and your favorite radical feminist avengers want you to go ape. The Guerrilla Girls have been making noise about gender and racial inequality in the art world since 1985. Fighting discrimination with a sense of humor and their signature faux fur, these masked feminists continue to challenge major museums to spotlight more women and artists of color.

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YBCA Explores Art And Activism in Take This Hammer
Practitioner
Christian L. Frock
Date
Mar 21 2016

A new exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts that showcases activism through art and media in the San Francisco Bay Area, gets its name, Take This Hammer, from a 1963 documentary about the author James Baldwin as he went around San Francisco, talking to African-Americans about what it was like for them in the city.

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Burners Without Borders
Practitioner
Burners Without Borders
Date
Jan 1 2016

Burners Without Borders (BWB) is a grassroots, volunteer-driven, community leadership organization whose goal is to unlock the creativity of local communities to solve problems that bring about meaningful change. Supporting volunteers from around the world in innovative disaster relief solutions & community resiliency projects, BWB is known for the unbridled creativity they bring to every civic project they do.

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Enchanted Dolls
Practitioner
Marina Bychkova
Date
Mar 19 2016

The Enchanted Doll is the famous brand of the Russian jeweler artist and designer Marina Bychkova who makes absolutely incredible porcelain and polyurethane dolls for adults. Marina was born in the city of Novokuznetsk in the USSR and since 1997 she lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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Project Easy Access Lexington
Practitioner
Latitude Artist Community
Date
Nov 1 2010

Spearheaded by Latitude Artist Community, Project Easy Access Lexington (PEAL) organized team 'Bricksquad' to help make the sidewalks and streets of downtown Lexington, KY more wheelchair accessible. Armed with only a canvas bag of few bricks, sand, and some tools the teams would make their way through the sidewalks restoring bricks as needed. The damage to the sidewalks was such that the gesture was symbolic more than effectual initially.

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Mexico Burns Effigies of Donald Trump in Easter Celebrations
Practitioner
Yuri Cortez, Photographer; Linda Kriegman, Reporter
Date
Mar 27 2016

MEXICO-US-HOLY-WEEK-TRUMP
Credit: YURI CORTEZ / Stringer

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MAY DAY MARCH- "TRUMP UNWANTED"
Practitioner
MAY DAY MARCH Community
Date
May 1 2016

GAME ON! Its gonna be a good Spring!" Connie Bacon.
Activists and the politically aware will march with the message that Donald Trump and his beliefs are "UNWANTED".

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Badass Indian Pinups
Practitioner
Nimisha Bhanot
Date
Apr 13 2013

“Badass Indian Pinups” is a series of paintings by Indo-Canadian artist Nimisha Bhanot, that features paintings of Indian women being confident and sexually liberated.

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The Resurgence of Women-Only Art Shows
Practitioner
multiple artists
Date
Mar 29 2016

At the peak of her career in 1976, Georgia O’Keeffe refused to lend her work to a pivotal exhibition in Los Angeles, “Women Artists: 1550 to 1950.” It was one of a wave of all-female shows — some 150 — that decade to spotlight artists largely ignored by major museums and galleries. But O’Keeffe, the most famous female artist of her day, saw herself in a different category — “one of the best painters,” period.

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