Imagination powers change – and changes power.
The Center for Artistic Activism helps people use their creativity and culture to effect power.
Our book: The Art of Activism
You can now order our book, The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible. It includes straightforward lessons, insights, and research from the couple decades of our work (and jokes!).
Unstoppable Voters
We’re supporting organizations and individuals that protect the freedom to vote in the United States with creativity and innovation. We’ve trained, mentored, and funded over 300 people and projects, reaching an audience of over two million, all across the country.
Revolutionizing Activism
You’re invited to Revolutionizing Activism, our popular online conversation series featuring incredible creative activists from around the world, talking about the most pressing topics in creative advocacy today.
Training
We offer training for artists, activists, and organizations on theory, methods and skills for maximizing their impact. In 2021 alone we’ve trained hundreds of activists, artists, and investigative journalists in the Western Balkans and West Africa, and democracy advocates across the United States, and public health advocates around the world.
Current Training
Online: The Art of Activism: Learning Labs
In-person: Artistic Activism: La Mega Clase
Training Case Studies
Advising
We provide advising for groups and organizations on strategic, creative methods for activism, grant making, and assessment. 2021 advising partners include; Greenpeace, A Blade of Grass, Art Against Ageism, Recess Art, and Open Society Foundations.
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..
Featured Resources
Our book The Art of Activism: Your All Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible published by O/R Press.
Publication: Why Artistic Activism?
Revolutionizing Activism – our online discussion series covering innovative ideas in artistic activism from around the globe
What we do
Art + Activism = Impact
Featured Alumnus
Donate
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your donation helps support artistic activism worldwide.
News
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Announcing: Unstoppable Voters 2022 Fellows!
We are THRILLED to be supporting 5 leading artistic activists and their exceptional 2022 midterm election work Read on to get to know Steve, Andrew, Céshia, Aileen, and Alannah Hailing from Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and DC, our 5 Unstoppable Voters Fellows are bringing big, bold ideas to help their communities around the country vote this …
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Announcing: Unstoppable Voters 2022 Action Accelerators!
Learn about the outstanding voting organizations joining our 2022 Midterm Action Accelerator We’ll be working with them through Election Day to develop and implement innovative, ambitious, strategic creative campaigns, supporting voters and voting all across the United States We’ve selected 9 of the most impactful individuals and groups committed to serving voters and making sure …
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Unstoppable Voters: Milwaukee
Moving voters Forward with more creativity, innovation, and impact Learn more and apply to join our creative activism voting workshop this September. Wisconsin has very important elections this year, at the federal, state, and local levels. But in the face of polarization, trust in elections is at a low ebb. With government systems that feel …
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Towards an International Research Co-Lab on Artistic Activism
Last week we held a second meeting to give shape to what we are calling an international research collaboratory (co-lab) on artistic activism. This is an initiative bringing together researchers from the Aoteroa/New Zealand, China, Denmark, Peru, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Our collective objective is to generate a …
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Tips for Collaborating with Organizations
PREAMBLE On Friday June 24, 2022 the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Along with the shock, grief, dread, and anger we’re feeling, many people are wondering what they can do in this moment. We don’t have a silver bullet that can solve this. If we did, we’d all be doing it. However, …
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Special Event Recap: Ways to Show Up
Fighting for Abortion with Creativity and Impact On Monday, June 27, we held a special event to talk about how to help support abortion rights. We were joined by Julia Kaye of the ACLU and Rija Nazir of the pro-abortion Vote Neigh campaign in Kansas. Read on for ways to help, what to do now, …
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