The Center for Artistic Activism helps people use their creativity and culture to effect power.
The Center for Artistic Activism is transforming the practices of art and activism, helping activists, artists, organizations, and foundations be more effective and affective in bringing about social change.
The Center for Artistic Activism is supporting change through the current crises
Our Unstoppable Voters Project
We’re supporting artistic activism projects that combating voter suppression in the United States before and after the 2020 U.S. election. We’ve funded two rounds of projects and are supporting a third now.
The Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 Campaign
Join our fight to make COVID-19 treatment, testing, and vaccines affordable and accessible to all. We launched a global, online Advocacy Innovation Lab called Free the Vaccine for Covid-19 and supported a movement.
Training
We offer training for artists, activists, and organizations on theory, methods and skills for maximizing their impact.
Advising
We provide advising for groups and organizations on strategic, creative methods for activism, grant making, and assessment.
Research
We conduct and share research on the practice and impact of artistic activism.
Resources
We give away podcasts,videos, webinars, guides and other online training resources you can access now..
What we do
Art + Activism = Impact
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We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your donation helps support artistic activism worldwide.
News
- Unstoppable Voters 2021 Project FundingThe Center for Artistic Activism is again supporting projects that protect the freedom to vote and ensure every voter’s voice is heard. Creatively risk-taking, innovative, strategic, ambitious projects – that …
- Unstoppable Voters Info SessionConsidering applying to be part of Unstoppable Voters 2021? We held an info session all about it – read on to see what we’ve done, what we’re doing next, and …
- Unstoppable Voters WorkshopThis special workshop will be online on June 8th, 15th, and 22nd from 6-8pm ET. It’s designed to help people who want to implement creative projects to combat anti-voter efforts …
- Unstoppable Voters 2021Our Unstoppable Voters project is fighting anti-voter efforts through creativity, joy, humor, and innovation. Applications for project funding and support open Friday, June 11! More info coming soon. We support …
- Big Win for Vaccine Access!This week pharmaceutical corporations lost out to Care Bears and the power of creative activism. On Wednesday May 5, we saw our past year of creative organizing around equitable access …
- Hiring: Assistant Director of Finance, HR, OperationsWe’re hiring! We’re looking for a part-time Assistant Director for Finance, Human Resources, and Business Operations to help with budgets, contracts, hiring, and non-profit administration work. This is a remote …
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- May 5: DC Rally for a People’s VaccineHaga clic aquí para leer este mensaje en español. A global pandemic requires a global solution. Yet we’re allowing pharmaceutical corporations to profit off the pandemic and public research. Their …
- Call for Submissions: ActipediaActipedia – our open-access, community generated wiki to document, share and inspire creative activism – is looking for fresh submissions! You can contribute to Actipedia! Here’s two wildly different but …
- Bernie Sanders supports a People’s VaccineDuring the People’s Vaccine Alliance March 10 Global Rally Senator Bernie Sanders delivered a message announcing his support for a People’s Vaccine and calling on the Biden administration to take …
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- Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 – Open MeetingJoin Free the Vaccine’s Open Meeting! Come talk with leaders in our campaign about artistic activism for global vaccine equity, actions and events coming soon, and see how you can …
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- Alumni Report: A Promise to Your Hero in AlbaniaAlbanian artistic activist, Migen Qiraxhi, joined a Center for Artistic Activism training in Sarajevo in 2019. Since then he’s taken those lessons and shared them with groups in Albania to …
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- 1 year into our COVID campaign“No one should be poor because they are sick, or sick because they are poor” is what our partner at Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, Merith Basey, told us last …
- SuperCorsa: How To Make High Performance Artistic ActivismA special course in March & April 2021, sponsored by Voqal. SuperCorsa (formerly known as the Master Class in Artistic Activism) will be an online course taught by the experts …
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- Beyond Raising Awareness: An Intro to Creative ActivismThis 2-hour seminar is an overview of creative activism. This seminar was recorded Feb 22, 2021 as a prerequisite to the SuperCorsa online course. But it can stand on its …
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