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.
The Great Migration Series
Practitioner:
Jacob Lawrence
Date:
May 12 1941

National Public Radio (NPR):

There's no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence's childhood home in New York City's Harlem neighborhood.

But Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has an idea of what it might say: "Here lived one of the 20th century's most influential visual artists, a man named Jacob Lawrence, who was a child of southern migrants."

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.

Ip Gim: Feminist Art and Activism
Practitioner:
Ip Gim
Date:
Aug 6 2004

"Founded in 1997 and active until 2018, Ip Gim was the first collective to use the word ‘feminist’ to describe itself in South Korea.

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