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The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.

Practitioner:

Thomas Deininger

Date:

Mar 17 2025

“Works in Progress” highlights artists across a range of disciplines whose work deals with ecological themes. Considering the particular role that artists play in the climate movement, this column shares their voices and provides a glimpse behind the curtain into their creative processes and experiences.

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Keep McAllen Beautiful

Practitioner:

Call For Artists

Date:

Sep 5 2021

Located throughout McAllen are over 200 irrigation pipes, which come in all shapes and sizes, and are part of the city’s rich agricultural history. To this day, some of those concrete pillars continue to regulate flow of irrigation-water to help maintain farmlands.

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American Prison Perpestives

Practitioner:

Christoph Gielen

Date:

Apr 11 2010

With American Prison Perspectives, Gielen intends tol illustrate how prison complex designs reflect the politics, economic priorities and anxieties of society, yet there would be so much more to say with pictures inside the prisions.

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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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Rwanda Cinema Centre & Rwanda Film Institute

Practitioner:

Eric Kabera

Date:

Jun 17 2013

The Rwanda Film Institute dedicates a lot of its energy to the education of individuals in the field of filmmaking. Through our Kwetu Film School, we look to consistently breed the next generation of Rwandese filmmakers. This is an essential part of our overarching goal of the development of Rwanda culturally, economically, and communicatively through the growth of filmmaking as an industry.

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I shop therefore I am

Practitioner:

Barbara Kruger

Date:

Jan 1 1987

I Shop Therefore I Am (1987) is the work of Barbara Kruger . It became an iconic artwork, being reproduced on items such as shopping bags and other consumer products such as t-shirts. Kruger has often derived images from the mass media and pasted the words over them, particularly in Futura Bold . She then uses advertising to design her works.

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This is America

Practitioner:

Donald Glover/ Childish Gambino

Date:

May 6 2018

(NEWS 8) — A day after pulling double-duty as both the host and musical guest on "Saturday Night Live," actor-writer-comedian-musician Donald Glover was garnering attention on Sunday for another reason. Social media blew up this weekend with reactions to Glover's new music video for "This is America," released under the name of his musical alter ego, Childish Gambino.

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2020 Was the Year of Protest Music

Practitioner:

Ambrose Akinmusire

Date:

Apr 1 2020

2020 was the year of when protest music blared everywhere. For a long period, Black people struggled against police brutality and in the uproar of George Floyd's murder, BLM protests instantly swept over the country. Of the many protest music that was released that year, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire wrote a song that would spearhead raging sentiments towards racial injustice beyond just jazz.

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One Of My Kind, Championing Muslim Women in The Zine World

Practitioner:

OOMK

Date:

Jan 3 2013

The questions that London-based collective One Of My Kind (aka OOMK) explore are those of identity and belonging—issues that are experienced by everyone regardless of whether they grew up defining themselves based on the music they listen to, the hobbies they enjoy, or the religion they practice.

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Using Art to Stop a Pipeline

Practitioner:

Aviva Rahmani

Date:

Apr 24 2018

It’s not easy to stop the construction of natural gas pipelines, but several years ago the ecological artist and activist Aviva Rahmani came up with an ingenious idea: what if you could protect threatened landscapes by turning them into art?

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Male students walk a mile in red high heels to help stop sexual violence against women

Practitioner:

University of Miami students

Date:

Apr 20 2019

"University of Miami students, mostly male, walked a mile in red high heeled shoes. They are walking a mile in her shoes. The mile long walk was in support of Walk a Mile in Her Shoes®, an international men’s march to stop rape, sexual assault and gender violence. The organization, which says on Facebook that they were founded in 2001, has walks around the world.

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Art, Advocacy, and Action: Luke Ching's Crusade for Labor Rights in Hong Kong

Practitioner:

Luke Ching Chin Wai

Date:

Jan 1 2024

Luke Ching Chin Wai is a conceptual artist and labour-artivist in Hong Kong. Since 2013, he has worked undercover in different low-paid jobs in the city, including as a security guard, supermarket cashier worker, and metro cleaner to learn about poor people's working conditions. He then uses these experiences to create art and push for improved labour rights.

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Transparency and translation of scientific data to mitigate climate change

Practitioner:

Martin Gropius Bau

Date:

Jul 1 2020

Amongst the European network of cultural institutions there has been widespread recognition that the climate crisis is a cultural crisis. In 2019 members of the European Theatre Forum convened and adopted the Dresden Convention, a revolutionary text that aimed to lower the carbon footprint and better the sustainable practices of the theatre and cultural sector at large.

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In Drones We Trust

Practitioner:

Joseph DeLappe

Date:

Nov 13 2014

In Drones We Trust, 2014 - Joseph DeLappe Crowd Sourced, Participatory Rubber Stamp Currency Intervention FOR FULL PROJECT DOCUMENTATION VISIT: http://indroneswetrust.tumblr.com/

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‘Stand by Her’: a compaign fight period poverty in China

Practitioner:

Students and Teachers

Date:

Jan 1 2024

HONG KONG — It started when a single box of free sanitary pads appeared in a middle school classroom in October. Then a plastic container with pads was attached to the walls of four bathrooms in a university in Shanghai. By Monday, boxes and bags of individually wrapped pads had popped up outside bathrooms in at least 338 schools and colleges across China. Each carried a version of the same instructions: “Take one, then put one back later.

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Horrible bosses: masked activists publicly shame businesses in Bologna

Practitioner:

Il Padrone di Merda

Date:

Oct 1 2019

On a warm summer afternoon in the Italian city of Bologna, a group of around 15 young people march through the crowded city centre to a high-end pastry shop in Strada Maggiore.

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This App Lets You Request a Stalker For 24 Hours

Practitioner:

Lauren McCarthy

Date:

Mar 2 2016

Artist Lauren McCarthy wants to challenge our obsession with getting followers on social media by letting you request a real-life follower, for one day at a time.

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Indigenous activists gather in Brazil to discuss future of the Amazon

Practitioner:

Brazilian Indigenous Activists and Environmentalists

Date:

Aug 6 2023

Thousands of Indigenous activists and environmentalists have converged in one of the Amazon’s biggest cities to voice their hopes and fears about the future of the world’s biggest rainforest. The Brazilian city of Belém will this week host a two-day conclave bringing together the presidents of eight Amazon nations including Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela.

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