Projects with Clear Long-Term Goals

These projects have long-term goals for change. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.

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:

Battleground

Practitioner:

Kwesi Thomas and Mark Bone

Date:

Apr 21 2021

The opening lines of this week’s Staff Pick Premiere, “Battleground,” by Kwesi Thomas and Mark Bone examine how skin color has become just that…a battleground. The short captures the particular discomfort of having to argue for one’s value in a society that should care instead of question. Kwesi, a Black man, powerfully conveys these feelings to his co-director Mark, a white man, in the wake of George Floyd’s death last May.

Emerging Indigenous artists are mixing tradition with an urgent, organized message

Practitioner:

Ash-Milby, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Portland Art Museum

Date:

Dec 4 2021

The new exhibit “MESH” at Portland Art Museum features Indigenous contemporary artists advocating for change

Visual artist, writer and activist Ka’ila Farrell-Smith says she considers herself a wartime artist.

She is a member of the Klamath tribes and lives in Modoc Point, Oregon. When asked about how history influences her work, the answer weaves through over 150 years of white colonization and Indigenous struggles in the West:

She Draws the Urgency of Climate Change: Introducing Zaria Forman

Practitioner:

Zaria Forman

Date:

Mar 8 2021

On this International Women’s Day, we wanted to celebrate the commitment of a very special human being. Her name is Zaria Forman, a leading artist in contemporary art with a cause. She is not only an exceptional human being; she is also an incredible American drawer who uses art to convey the emergency of climate change.