Projects tagged "NYC"

Reversing the Lens: Sexual Harrassment Victim uses social media, leads to harasser's arrest
Practitioner:
Thao Nguyen, Hollaback!
Date:
Aug 20 2005
 A young woman named Thao Nguyen was riding the R train in NYC when a man sitting across from began to masturbate.
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The Strangers Project
Practitioner:
Brandon Doman
Date:
Aug 1 2019
The Strangers Project is a celebration of the stories we’re surrounded with every day—both from the strangers we share our space with every day, and our own stories we carry. It’s about a connection with ourselves, with people around us, and with something greater than ourselves.
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MTA Posters
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
May 1 2013
Come across a poster like the two above on your commute recently? Laid out in classic MTA style, but adorned with Orwellian imagery and an appropriately ambiguous hashtag, they warn of two possible hazards to your health: an upcoming “airborne non-toxic test” in which the NYPD will disperse “harmless, colorless gas” around the five boroughs, and an at-risk nuclear reactor that’s just 28 miles from NYC.
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Burkaphilia
Practitioner:
Behnaz Babazadeh
Date:
Jun 1 2012
When Behnaz Babazadeh was young, her family moved from Afghanistan to the US. She loved almost everything about her new home — especially America’s amazing selection of candy — but she also loved wearing her familiar pink-flowered headscarf, which she’d grown used to wearing as part of her school uniform in her old home.
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A Feminist Tea Party
Practitioner:
Caitlin Rueter and Suzanne Stroebe
Date:
Aug 3 2008
A Feminist Tea Party is an ongoing collaborative project by Caitlin Rueter and Suzanne Stroebe.
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Feminist Theatre!
Practitioner:
Wow Cafe Theatre
Date:
Oct 1 1980
WOW started as an international women's theatre festival in October of 1980 in NYC. Within 18 months Wow found a permanent location and produced works by women and trans people all year around. In 1984 it moved into its current home at 59-61 East 4th Street.
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A Million Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin
Practitioner:
new yorkers
Date:
Mar 21 2012
A march took place Wednesday evening in Manhattan calling for justice in the case of Trayvon Martin. He was an unarmed black teenager who was shot to death by a neighborhood watch captain in Florida last month.
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Immigrants Justice Campaign: #freethefamilies
Practitioner:
Amnesty International USA, Amnesty International, the American Immigration Council, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Dilley Pro Bono Project, Families Belong Together
Date:
Oct 31 2018
While Trump’s proposal to detain asylum-seeking and migrant families indefinitely remains open to public comment for the next week, families who have already been detained for longer than the 20-day maximum endure painful separations and terrifying uncertainty while they remain in limbo.
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Talib Kweli on Rick Ross's date rape lyrics
Practitioner:
Talib Kweli
Date:
Apr 27 2013
Following the controversy around Rick Ross's date rape lyrics in his rap on Rocko’s song U.O.E.N.O, the rapper lost his contract with Reebok and was the target of the media, anti-rape activists Ultraviolet, hip hop activists, and even his fans.
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GLITS 2020 Fundraiser
Practitioner:
Gays & Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society
Date:
Jun 15 2020
In 2020, GLITS raised over one million dollars in less than a month through a grassroots organizing campaign with a clear objective, a call to action, and an open source toolkit. The objective was to raise one million dollars to purchase a building that would permanently house and provide services for transgender peoples of color in New York City. They created a toolkit with coordinated and captivating imagery and made it available to everyone.
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Building an Ark for the big climate rally
Practitioner:
Auburn Seminary
Date:
Sep 19 2014
Four months ago, I was in a multifaith brainstorm for the People’s Climate March when someone said, “What if we had a giant ark?” I think we all had the same reaction: Great … but how do you build an ark?
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Unhappily Ever
Practitioner:
Jeff Hong
Date:
Dec 6 2018
Jeff is an animation storyboard artist from Los Angeles, previously working as an animation artist on several famous Disney movies. He uses his talent to produce work highlighting environmental and social issues worldwide with Disney characters, called Unhappily Ever After. His work includes images of Elsa from Frozen on melting ice caps and Alice from Alice & Wonderland taking drugs down a dark alley.
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Can’t Help Myself
Practitioner:
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
Date:
Dec 29 2016
In 2016, the Guggenheim Museum commissioned its very first robotic artwork called Can’t Help Myself (Wannmann, 2016). The artwork is created by two of China’s most controversial artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu and can be described as a robotic arm that has one specific, life-long duty: to prevent the deep-red, bloodlike liquid, which constantly oozes outwards, from straying too far (Weng, n.d.).
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Balloons Not Bars
Practitioner:
JustLeadershipUSA and #CLOSErikers activists
Date:
Jun 4 2019
"Formerly incarcerated people, activists and family members of people detained on Rikers Island released dozens of white balloons into the air from the base of the Rikers Island Bridge. The balloons, each one representing someone who had died at Rikers, transversed the heavily guarded bridge that separates the island from mainland Queens, disappearing out of sight.
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Untitled
Practitioner:
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Date:
May 1 1992
In May 1992, a series of 24 billboards displaying an identical image began appearing throughout New York City. They featured a giant close-up black-and-white photograph, without text, of a rumpled bed, pillows still indented from the heads that had rested there.
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Keith Haring's AIDS Activism
Practitioner:
Keith Haring
Date:
Jan 1 1980
Keith Haring was an American artist and activist in 1980s New York, whose artwork raised awareness on social issues at the time. One the main awareness campaigns Haring participated on was AIDS awareness and activism.
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3/Fifths' Supremacyland
Practitioner:
James Scruggs
Date:
May 5 2017
​"Four theatrical spaces and the full inventory of of 3LD Art & Technology Center were enlisted in the transformation of the space into SupremacyLand, a dystopian theme park where white supremacy and racist carnage was raised and twisted into totally immersive, experiences.
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Response to James Cohan Gallery (October 19th, 2017)
Practitioner:
Chinatown Art Brigade
Date:
Oct 19 2017
October 19, 2017
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Stop Telling Women to Smile
Practitioner:
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Date:
Aug 8 2020
publicly displayed posters feature the portraits of women, along with a quote relaying their experiences with street harassment. Fazlalizadeh hopes the captions speak directly to offenders by placing the posters outside in public spaces where harassment happens.
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52 Shades of Greed: An Illustrated Education
Practitioner:
Alternative Banking, Marc Sheff
Date:
Sep 4 2012
After being contacted by a member of the Occupy Wall Street Alternative Banking group , illustrator Marc Scheff agreed to do a few drawings for a deck of cards depicting some of the people and institutions responsible for causing the Great Recession.
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Naming the Lost Memorials
Practitioner:
Naming the Lost, Make the Road, CityLore, Great Small Works, Fund Excluded Workers coalition, artists around the country, folklorists around the country
Date:
May 25 2020
In May 2020, a team of artists, activists, folklorists, and people who lost loved ones to Covid-19 came together to make monthly memorial sites in New York City to remember victims of the Covid-19 pandemic. They continued installing memorials around New York City every month during the summer of 2020.
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NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower Others
Practitioner:
Johanna Toruno
Date:
Jul 1 2017
You’ll find Johanna Toruno on the streets of NYC plastering pictures of her flower-filtered poetry, Kendrick Lamar, and Selena on blank walls, street lights and buildings. When I came across The Unapologetically Brown Series on Instagram I was intrigued not only by the name but by the concept of being unapologetic and brown as the premise for a body of street art.
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