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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Apply to Join Our Board
Center for Artistic Activism (C4AA) is seeking individuals to be part of our fantastic Board of Directors as volunteers. The C4AA Board of Directors comprises leaders from the nonprofit and for-profit sector who are dedicated to the organization’s mission. Our board members champion the importance of creative activism and the value of research and training …
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Announcing: Revolutionizing Activism: FEASTS
JOIN US FOR THE INGREDIENTS TO SUCCESS JOIN US ON SEPTEMBER 15th | 12 PM EST | Livestream via YouTube Food is a universal language. Yet it’s also deeply embedded in unique and diverse cultural expression. Perhaps, this is part of what has made it possible for activists to use food and feasts in radical …
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Art & Creative Democracy: Unstoppable Voters
Join our artistic activism workshop — and make more impactful, innovative, creative voting campaigns! Just in time for the 2022 midterm elections. Apply below by September 21st. Wisconsin has very important elections this year — and we know we need to turn out voters in record numbers for them. But we also know that with …
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Unstoppable Voters: Columbus
Bring more creativity, innovation, and impact to helping Ohioans this election season Learn more and apply to join our creative activism voting workshop this October. Ohio has very important elections this year — and we know we need to turn out voters in record numbers for them. But we also know that with local, state, …
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We’re Back! Revolutionizing Activism Season 2
Revolutionizing Activism is back with a new lineup of conversations featuring activists, advocates, and artists challenging traditional approaches to advocacy! WE’RE BACK!!!!! You asked for it, and we brought it back! We launched our new discussion series Revolutionizing Activism late last year for artists, activists, and advocates to come together and dig into tried and …
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Announcing: Revolutionizing Activism: PARTIES
I PARTIED TILL THE WORLD CHANGED JOIN US ON AUGUST 25th | 12 PM EST | Riverside.fm London. Tbilisi. San Juan. Berlin. These are just a few places around the world where organizers have used parties as their main site of protest. In movements for reproductive rights, the decriminalization of drugs, and human rights–parties have …
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