Projects tagged "Sustains (change)"

Support and celebrate change that has already been won and needs to be sustained.

Art Everywhere
Practitioner:
Centro San Antonio
Date:
May 21 2021
CENTRO San Antonio's Art Everywhere Project will celebrate its 5th anniversary in May. As of May 2024, the project had seen numerous artists from the city's urbancore decorate areas of the city with elaborate murals reflecting the city's history and the diversity of cultures in the city.
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MASK art exhibit
Practitioner:
Yahn Gallery in the St Charles County Arts Council
Date:
Aug 31 2020
"MASK" is an art exhibition that explores the uses and meanings of masks, and ones feelings about them. Masks throughout history have taken many forms and have served many purposes. They have been used in construction, scientific research, technical manufacturing, medicine, the theater, and warfare.
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Gandhi Begins Fast in Protest of Caste Separation
Practitioner:
Mahatma Gandhi
Date:
Sep 16 1932
On September 16, 1932, in his cell at Yerwada Jail in Pune, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest of the British government’s decision to separate India’s electoral system by caste.
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When an orchestra director negotiated his cachet in trees
Practitioner:
Claudio Abbado
Date:
Sep 9 2009
Claudio Abbado was an Italian orchestra director (1933 - 2014) who served as chief director at La Scala Theater in Milan from 1968 - 1985. After 18 years of absence, in 2009, he was invited to conduct a concert there. He accepted upon condition that, instead of paying him a monetary honorarium, the city would commit to the planing of 90.000 trees in the city of Milan.
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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.
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THEY Still want to kill us: Film of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to Air at Arts Center
Practitioner:
UMass Amherst Arts Center, Yoram Savion
Date:
May 13 2021
Joining art institutes nationally, a film on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will premiere at the UMass Amherst Arts Center. This is especially important given its will be the 100th anniversary of the tragic event of when "Black Wall Street" was burned to the ground. It is widely known as one of the most violent events, let alone racially charged ones, in US History.
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Embarking on a journey through a sea of theater
Practitioner:
CGTN
Date:
Jul 6 2023
China's only seaside theater festival has been held in the resort town of Aranya in north China's Hebei Province. Artists from around the world traveled there to take deep dive into the world of dramatic performance. For theatergoers, there were interactive activities including cross-border installations such as seaside talks, environmental drama readings, screenings, theater houses, parades and bonfires by the sea.
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Art, Politics, Activism, Oakland And Angela Davis
Practitioner:
Angela Davis
Date:
Jan 19 2023
When the U.S. government came after Anglea Davis, art came to her defense. Targeted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as one of its “10 Most Wanted” in 1970, tracked down, jailed and accused of three capital crimes, artists and activists around the world rose to her defense. She would be found not guilty on all counts.
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A Power Letter to Asian Women
Practitioner:
Rohan Zhou-Lee
Date:
Mar 4 2022
Rohan Zhou-Lee pens a power letter to Asian women, reminding us of our brilliance, heroism, and inherited centuries of Asian woman power. To any Asian Woman, cis or trans, who might read this:
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The Dance Union
Practitioner:
Melanie Greene, J. Bouey
Date:
Jun 1 2020
Through their podcast, The Dance Union, Melanie Greene and J. Bouey have been confronting racism in the dance world, and highlighting the experiences of Black artists, since 2018. Their episodes cover a variety of topics and issues, ranging from mental health and sexual harassment to advocating for fair pay.
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Michael Moore demands nationwide boycott of Walgreens for not selling abortion pill: 'Bigotry and misogyny'
Practitioner:
Michael Moore
Date:
Mar 6 2023
Filmmaker Michael Moore has called for a nationwide boycott of Walgreens after the pharmacy chain announced it would not sell abortion pills in 20 states. n February, 20 Republican state attorneys general wrote to Walgreens Corp. threatening legal action if Walgreens provides the abortion pill, mifepristone, to consumers in their pharmacies across the U.S.
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Street Art Activism: What White People Call Vandalism
Practitioner:
Nancypili Hernandez, DeVante Brooks, Olek, Mona Caron
Date:
Oct 21 2020
In this article, author Caroline Choi highlights different grafiti artists and their stories. These artists use their talent to tell their stories, ones that might not get to be told otherwise. She goes into the history of grafiti, and how it ties into how rich and white the art world has become.
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When the Sky Blooms With Sakura—the first daytime fireworks in the sky above Yotuskura Beach in Iwaki City
Practitioner:
Cai Guoqiang
Date:
Jun 26 2023
On June 26, contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang released the daytime firework display ‘When the Sky Blooms with Sakura’ at Yotsukura Beach in Iwaki City, as commissioned by Saint Laurent’s creative director Anthony Vaccarello.
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Book Burning Party - Troy Library
Practitioner:
Leo Burnett
Date:
May 8 2012
Troy, Michigan couldn't afford to keep its library open, so it scheduled a vote for a tax increase. A strong anti-tax group waged a dominating campaign against it. Posing as a political group, an outside advertising agency posted signs around town that said, "Vote to close Troy library Aug 2, book burning party Aug 5." We invited everyone to our Facebook page, adding Twitter, Foursquare, want ads, flyers and more to drive engagement.
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Global Jars of Joy
Practitioner:
The Joy Switchboard
Date:
Apr 25 2021
Our project aims to show people that joy can be an act of resistance and resilience in the face of global justice issues when harnessed in the right way. The sharing of joy can also act as a connector in a society that continues to grow more polarised through the division of social media and mainstream media.
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The Archive Means We Are Counted in History.’ Zanele Muholi on Documenting Black, Queer Life in South Africa
Practitioner:
Zanele Muholi
Date:
Dec 3 2020
In the portrait Bester I, Mayotte, the sitter’s eyes stare directly at the camera, practically boring a hole in the lens. Their lips are painted white, their hair and ears adorned with clothespins. The self-portrait of Zanele Muholi is striking on its own, but it does not stand alone.
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Climate Activists Deface Constitutional Monument in Germany with Black Paint, Posters
Practitioner:
The Last Generation
Date:
Mar 4 2023
Climate activists defaced a work of art near Germany's Parliament Saturday in the latest act of vandalism by protestors concerned with environmental policy. Members of The Last Generation threw black liquid over a series of glass plates displaying 19 articles of the German constitution. The protestors then affixed posters to the facade that read, "Oil or fundamental rights?" in German.
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"I Still Believe in Our City" Asian Americans Standing Out for Themselves
Practitioner:
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Date:
Nov 3 2020
Asian Americans standing up for themselves, the Black Lives Matter movement, and their home: New York City In 2020, as COVID-19 flared through New York City and NYC hospitals saw a spike of nearly 200,000 patients, Asian and Pacific Islanders (APIs) faced an added threat: blame, racism, and xenophobia.
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Tree Mountain-A Living Time Capsule
Practitioner:
Agnes Denes
Date:
Jun 5 1996
Denes's project "Tree Mountain-A Living Time Capsule" in Finland is a monumental earthwork involving the planting of 11,000 trees by 11,000 people on a reclaimed gravel pit. It's designed to grow over the next 400 years, serving as a testament to environmental stewardship and the potential for regeneration.
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Adidas by Stella McCartney’s SS21 collection calls on us to protect our oceans
Practitioner:
Stella McCartney w/ Adidas, Monika Mogi, Netti Hurley
Date:
Apr 1 2021
When we think about the protectors of our oceans, our mind is instantly drawn to the image of the lifeguard. Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff in bright red swimsuits, their enviable bodies on show, as they run along the coastline. As a result our concept of the role has an elitism about it.
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Strange Fruit: The First Great Protest Song
Practitioner:
Billie Holiday
Date:
Apr 20 1939
It is a clear, fresh New York night in March 1939. You're on a date and you've decided to investigate a new club in a former speakeasy on West 4th Street: Cafe Society, which calls itself "The Wrong Place for the Right People".
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The World's Most Dangerous Rap Group: NWA
Practitioner:
NWA
Date:
Aug 19 1988
In 1988, rap group the N.W.A from Compton, California released their second album, “Straight Outta Compton”. Without any radio play or media coverage, the album still managed to become an underground hit, and the notorious rap group successfully introduced socially conscious gangsta rap into the mainstream.
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Private Dinner Party: Clothing Not Allowed
Practitioner:
Charlie Ann Max
Date:
Jan 1 2020
Private Dinner Party: Clothing Not Allowed The Füde Dinner Experience gathers those who want to meet, eat and drink — only after leaving their clothes at the door.
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The American Library
Practitioner:
Yinka Shonibare
Date:
Jul 14 2018
Debuting at Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, July 14 – September 30 for FRONTart 2018 is ‘The American Library’ by Yinka Shonibare MBE, a celebration of the diversity of the American population. It aims to be an instigator of discovery and debate. The thousands of books in this art installation are covered in the artist’s signature Dutch wax printed cotton textile.
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Imagining Life after the Ravaging, Virulent COVID-19 Pandemic , A Special Journal.
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha - Publisher/Curator and Jamie Dedes- Guest Editor
Date:
Jun 29 0020
The signature angst of our time was profoundly expressed in the poems submitted for WOMAWORDS Literary Press June 2020 edition, Imaging Life After COVID-19, offering women poets an opportunity to write about their experience of the pandemic and their vision of or for the future. The universal trauma wrought by this virus, invisible and silent and pouncing with madness and mendacity, brings us to a place we’d like to forget but never will.
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