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New Work - New Women
Practitioner:
Beth Williams Garrett
Date:
May 19 2017
After the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017, misogynistic sentiments were amplified due to Trump's policy positions and rhetoric. One position Trump made clear was against Planned Parenthood, which largely threatened women's reproductive rights and access to healthcare.
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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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White supremacist rally "clowned" by counter protest
Practitioner:
Latin American Coalition
Date:
Nov 10 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say no one was arrested during a loud – and very colorful – KKK rally and counter-protest in uptown Charlotte Saturday afternoon. Members of the National Socialist Movement joined the Ku Klux Klan for an anti-immigration rally at Old City Hall on West Trade Street, but the counter-protesters outnumbered them at least five to one.
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Out in Schools
Practitioner:
Out on Screen
Date:
Jan 1 2004
Out in Schools is a high school outreach initiative that has received acclaim from parents and educators across British Columbia since 2004. The Out in Schools program uses age-appropriate film and video presentations to engage youth and educators on issues related to homophobia and violence.
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Art Protest Groups Join Forces for Guerrilla Ribbon-cutting
Practitioner:
The Illuminator
Date:
Apr 14 2015
Last night, The Illuminator (please see external sources) was in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District to project mayday messages on the facade of the soon-to-be-opened Whitney Museum, while a group of two dozen protesters supported by 23 sponsoring organizations, launched a guerrilla inauguration for the “fracked gas line museum.”
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Palas Por Pistolas
Practitioner:
Pedro Reyes
Date:
Nov 30 2007
Palas por Pistolas initiated in the city of Culiacán, a city in western Mexico with a high rate of deaths by gunshot. The botanical garden of Culiacán has been comissioning artist to do interventions in the park and my proposal was to work in the larger scale of the city and organize a campaign for voluntary donation of weapons.
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Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid
Practitioner:
Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid
Date:
May 15 2011
Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid The Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid (Solphonic Orchestra of Madrid) is a self-organized orchestra that was formed in the context of the social movement 15M and that has gained popularity for playing classical music in demonstrations and acts of social protest.
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Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Practitioner:
Malik Yakini
Date:
Mar 11 2014
From the site's "About Us:"
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Joseph Beuys, Coyote: I like America and America Likes Me, May 1974
Practitioner:
Joseph Beuys
Date:
Mar 1 1974
It was 1974 when Beuys arrived in New York City, ready to tackle a whole new challenge and create what was to become one of the most famous works of art of the time. Upon arrival, his assistants wrapped him in a large piece of felt and transported him, by ambulance, to the René Block Gallery in SoHo. There, awaiting the artist, was a live coyote. Beuys spent three consecutive days, eight hours at a time, locked up with the wild animal.
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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.
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Destruction of the National Front
Practitioner:
Eddie Chambers
Date:
Dec 3 1979
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Thousands of Shoes Honor Hurricane Maria’s Victims in San Juan
Practitioner:
Rafael Acevedo, Puerto Rican citizens
Date:
Jun 1 2018
Walking the rows of shoes—favorite slippers, old Army boots, gold stilettos—it’s the baby shoes that stop you cold. Shoes began to fill a plaza opposite Puerto Rico’s Capitol building, and by Sunday morning, there were more than 3,000 pairs, a growing memorial to the roughly 4,645 people estimated to have died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
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Mattress Protest/Carry That Weight
Practitioner:
Emma Sulkowicz
Date:
Sep 1 2014
Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) (2014–2015) was a work of endurance/performance art which Emma Sulkowicz conducted as a senior thesis during the final year of a visual arts degree at Columbia University in New York City.[1]
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Brazil to give $25 monthly culture stipend to workers to go to movies, read books or visit museums
Practitioner:
Brazilian Government
Date:
Jan 23 2013
BRASILIA (AFP).- Despite the economic crisis, Brazil announced Thursday it planned to give workers here a 50-real ($25) monthly stipend for cultural expenses like movies, books or museums. "In all developed countries, culture plays a key role in the economy," Culture Minister Marta Suplicy said in an interview on national television.
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CFA San Francisco Member Brings Black Art and Activism to Students
Practitioner:
Mark Allan Davis
Date:
Feb 9 2023
“As an educator, I want people to have a sense of empowerment. I want them to have ownership of their own creative experience. It’s a very humane thing knowing we are inherently creative.”
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Turkey's Artists Protest Islamist Censorship After 'Secret Obscenities'
Practitioner:
Turkish Artists
Date:
May 2 2012
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RAT-PAC
Practitioner:
The Resistance Arts Trust Political Action Committee
Date:
Jun 19 2015
The Resistance Arts Trust Political Action Committee is a Super PAC with the mission of challenging great Artists to create public works of political art meant to inform communities, start conversations and drive media coverage on progressive issues, and empowering artists and the arts to a greater role in American political discourse.
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Chinese Contemporary Artist Liao Guohe’s “Bad Paintings” on Exhibition in Nanjing
Practitioner:
Liao Guohe
Date:
Nov 14 2014
Liao Guohe’s solo exhibition ----“Satisfaction Guaranteed”, the first-time all-round summary of his paintings in last 10 years, is held from November 14, 2014 to March 14, 2015 at Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing, China.
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Utopian Infrastructure: The Campesino Basketball Court
Practitioner:
ARPDELESP
Date:
May 30 2023
The Mexican Pavilion is an immersive space based on a 1:1 scale fragment of the expanded model of the campesino basketball court, an infrastructure that has become repurposed as a space for poly- and pluri-valent processes of decolonisation in Mexico’s indigenous communities.
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"Broccoli" Magazine: Looking at Cannabis Through the Lens of Contemporary Culture
Practitioner:
Broccoli
Date:
Feb 1 2017
Created by and for women, Broccoli is an independent print magazine based in Portland, Oregon. Although intended for cannabis users, Broccoli is an art and lifestyle magazine that bills itself as “playful, informed, eclectic, and thoughtful.” It encourages the discovery and appreciation of cannabis through explorations of art, culture, and fashion.
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