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. See the first round here.
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’ve launched a global, online Advocacy Innovation Lab called Free the Vaccine for Covid-19. And you can take part.
Transition Your Advocacy
Keep your team inspired and resilient. With our online workshops like Don’t Cancel: Creative Activism in the Time of Coronavirus, we can help your group move forward creatively, in the current context, no matter the issue you’re working on. Contact us for details.
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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News
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 13: SUPERSTORES – Bass Pro ShopsThe Lost Episode! We recorded this episode over 2 years ago and dug it out of the vaults for you! We left off at episode 12 – The Chevy Suburban. […]
- Info Session: Free the Vaccine for COVID-19Considering applying with Free the Vaccine for COVID-19, our artistic activism training and action campaign? Let us share what we’ve been up to and how it works. On Wednesday, 1/27, […]
- APPLY: Artistic Activism Training for Equity + COVID-19Our COVID-19 healthcare for all campaign is about to launch its next round of artistic activism training and action. Join us! As we hit over 100 million worldwide COVID-19 cases, […]
- “First Female President” says farewellMargaret McCarthy has acted as the “First Female President” for the last four years. Hear what was achieved in this parallel universe in her closing address, and let’s get started making some of those dreams a reality.
- Call for Project ManagersThe Center for Artistic Activism is looking for paid intern Project Managers for its Free the Vaccine campaign! Season 3 of our COVID healthcare campaign, Free the Vaccine, will be […]
- EVENT: The Power of PieCelebrate Martin Luther King Day with Peace Through Pie & Stir The Pot. Learn about the Civil Rights history of pie, participate in interactive pie demos & be inspired by […]
- Rest in Peace Michael YoungThis week we learned that United for a Fair Economy organizer and Center for Artistic Activism alumni and collaborator, Michael Young passed away. Michael worked with the Center for Artistic […]
- Alumni “Valu” Obiajulu on BBC WorldEveryone deserves a safe and healthy place to call home. In Lagos, Nigeria corruption brings crime to every level of a society and causes infrastructure to languish. Dance can be […]
- Call for InternsThe Center for Artistic Activism is accepting a Creative Activism Toolkit Intern who will assist with updating our training materials and sharing them with participants in West Africa and the […]
- Fighting Corruption CreativelyThe Center for Artistic Activism is working with Open Society Foundations on Regional Creative Hubs: a multi-year project that is changing anti-corruption activism in some of the most impacted regions […]
- Buck Expectations. Vote.by Molly Gore On January 4th, one day before Georgia will finish voting in the Senate runoff races, Black cowboys from the Atlanta Saddle Club Association mounted up and rode to the polls, […]
- Artistic Activism guide to the Georgia Run-off ElectionLooking to help in the Georgia run-offs? This guide can help. We asked our Unstoppable Voters grantee, Georgia artist Gabrielle Mertz, to draft a guide to the Georgia run-offs for […]