Author Archives: The Center for Artistic Activism
Reflection from Pakistani Participant
Recently we hosted a group of Pakistani Visual Artists for a short workshop in Creative Activism (Read more about that workshop here). One of the participants, Sehr Jalil Raja, shared a recent post about her experiences on the trip to New York and DC. To hear all about her discoveries and adventures, follow this link to …
A Visit from Jay-Z? Imagining a Win with Pakistani Visual Artists
Midway through a workshop on creative activism the morning of November 22, a group of Pakistani visual artists visiting NYU got some surprising news: Jay-Z had heard they were in the States, and had requested that they perform with him in a music video, as backup singers…….. We recently hosted a group of Pakistani Visual …
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Photos from School of Creative Activism the Lone Star State
“Changin Scotland”
CAA recently headed to Scotland for “Changin Scotland,” a weekend workshop run by Gerry Hassan, Jean Urquhart, and an independent MSP. Hansen has written two articles describing the experience and discoveries about “imagining a win” and daring to dream bigger. To hear more about his experience check out the two links below: Scotsman, Nov 19th: …
Clamor Magazine–Help Bring the “DIY Guide to Everyday Revolution” ONLINE!
The Clamor Magazine archive is now available digitally—Can you help us make it more accessible? Clamor co-founder Jason Kucsma and I are working on making all of the print content available and searchable through a new web portal. We’ve already digitized the print magazines, and though everything is online now, we still have some work …
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Attention San Francisco/Bay Area Activists: Artistic Activism Panel Discussion
Just wanted to share an awesome event happening in the San Francisco/Bay area on NOVEMBER 11, 2013: ATTENTION ALL SAN FRANCISCO/BAY AREA ARTISTS/ACTIVISTS: Please join us for an evening panel discussion, The Art of Resistance: Intersections & Alliances through Artivism featuring art activists: Melanie Cervantes is a Xicana graphic artist whose work includes black and white illustrations, paintings, …
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Call for Entries: Exuberant Politics Exhibition
Exuberant Politics Exhibition Call for Entries Deadline: December 15, 2013 Send your revolutionary manifesto, your conceptual social sculpture, your political poems, your utopian films and videos, your musical anthems. Enter your political rally poster, your activist website, your play, performance, print, painting or puppet in the show “Exuberant Politics.” EP celebrates the intersection of art …
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Trading in Rifles for Art Supplies
Check out two amazing projects from some of the folks we worked with in Chicago focusing on Veteran-Artists. THE DIRTY CANTEEN DOCUMENTARY Click Here To Support The Dirty Canteen Documentary http://www.crowdrise.com/thedirtycanteendocumentary/fundraiser/aaronhughes The Dirty Canteen Documentary will focus on Veteran-Artists who have taken on the mission of storytelling by trading in their rifles and rucksacks for …
Grants for Socially Engaged Artists and Organizations (a blade of grass)
Submissions are open for grants supporting socially engaged art from a blade of grass is an organization dedicated to providing resources to artists who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve as conduits for social change! Grants are available to both individual artists and collectives/organizations: ABOG Fellowship for Socially Engaged Artist A one-year fellowship for individual artists and collectives. Fellowships pair …
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2013 IVAW School for Creative Activism participants announced
The Center for Artistic Activism is proud to hold a School for Creative Activism with Iraq Veterans Against The War this summer at their annual meeting in Chicago. The following members will be participating in the weekend long workshop. Michael Applegate “I was in the Navy for 8 years from 1998–2006 and joined IVAW in …
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2013 SCA New York Participants Announced!
Linda Sarsour Linda Sarsour is a Palestinian-American community activist, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently working as the Advocacy and Civic Engagement Coordinator for the National Network for Arab American Communities and ACCESS and locally serving as the Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York, a social service agency …
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Freedom to Fail, Harvard-Style
Even Harvard Business Review gets it: failure is a necessary part of creation and innovation. This blog post highlights how a few forward-thinking organizations build failure-friendly practices into their structure. One of our favorites is from DoSomething.org: DoSomething.Org, a nonprofit that helps young people take action on social change initiatives, has a “FailFest” once a …
Event: Paul Engler @ Creative Activism Thursdays
Thursday, May 2nd; 7 PM NYU Tisch, Performance Studies Dept.721 Broadway, 6th FloorFREEPhoto ID required Paul Engler, Director of the Center for the Working Poor, will speak about his experience in the anti-globalization movement after Seattle, immigrant rights marches, Occupy, how the Serbian nonviolent revolutionaries changed his life, a concrete plan to get high numbers of …
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Not An Alternative: Internship Opportunity
Not An Alternative is a hybrid arts collective and non-profit organization with a mission to affect popular understandings of events, symbols, and history. They curate and produce interventions on immaterial and material space, leveraging the tools of architecture, exhibit design, branding, and public relations. And they are great friends of the Center for Artistic Activism! See …
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Making Taxes Visible
In a recent New York Times editorial, Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton discussed America’s broad distaste for the institution of taxation, a phenomenon that plagues advocates of progressive taxation in this country. Rather than addressing the historical-political underpinnings of these contemporary attitudes, they approach the issue from a design perspective. Their conclusion? Taxes could benefit …
Tactics and Strategies
A directory of tactics and strategies for human rights activism: http://www.newtactics.org/tactics
Escrache in Spain
The term “escrache” comes from Argentina, where it was coined in in 1995 by the human rights activist group H.I.J.O.S, to condemn the genocides committed by members of the military dictatorship that had been pardoned by Carlos Menem, who was prime minister at the time. When justice fails to signal a violation of human rights, the …
Those in Charge
On August 2012, seven black Mercedes drove through the Gran Vía, one of Madrid´s main streets. This image reminded of a State funeral, or some kind of military or religious parade. On top of each of the luxurious cars, there was an academic-style painting of a person that had been in “in charge” of the …
Event: Experiments in Extra-Institutional Education
Apr 11, 2013, 6:30pm | Room 9206 Center for the Humanities The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 Experiments in Extra-Institutional Education What are the theoretical and political repercussions of education outside of a traditional classroom? Whether spurred on by a tidal wave of student debt, changes in technology, …
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