Here to Inspire You and Your 2026 Election Work This election season, you might see giant wearable brains parading through Portland to remind Oregonians to return their ballots, or aliens from Planet No Choice registering voters at Lake Merritt in Oakland. You might catch drag performers picking up voters on a party bus in Baltimore, …
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Three Steps to Radically Ridiculous Project Ideas
Use the resource below and then submit your idea to get support! “This sh*t is ridiculous!” We’re guessing that’s a sentence you’ve yelled (out loud or just in your head) many times, in response to the many &#$!% things happening in our government and in our country. But now, with the November elections nearly upon, …
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Applications Open! Get Support for your Radically Ridiculous Midterm Election Project
Submit by midnight on Sunday, September 13 We’re helping you realize bold, strategic, and spectacular pro-voting election projects for the midterms. Fill out the brief application below by midnight ET on Sunday, September 13. We’ll be selecting up to 10 projects to receive: This support is perfect for voting champions who are: Looking for project …
How to Find Radically Ridiculous Election Ideas
Get Trained in Tactical Frivolity | Sept 8 | 7-8pm We’re teaming up with some of the best artistic activists we know to offer a free training in tactical frivolity and how to deploy it for the U.S. midterm elections this fall. On September 8 from 7-8pm ET: Watch the Recording This training has passed. …
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Announcing: A Radically Ridiculous Midterm Accelerator
Get Training and Support for Tactically Frivolous Election Actions this Fall “This sh*t is ridiculous!” We’re guessing that’s a sentence you’ve yelled (out loud or just in your head) many times, in response to the many &#$!% things happening in our government and in our country. But now, with the November elections nearly upon, we’re going …
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Recapping Creative Leadership in Action
What We Heard, What We Learned, and What’s Next Creativity makes leadership work. When leaders and their teams have space to imagine new approaches, they build better campaigns, stronger coalitions, and the stamina to keep going. But under the pressures most leaders face right now, creativity is often the first thing that gets squeezed out. …
Creative Leadership in Action
Real stories and practical insights from leaders putting creative strategy into practice Get the Recap Good leadership depends on creativity. When leaders have room for themselves and their teams to imagine new approaches, they create better tactics, build stronger collaborations, and stay in the work. Yet most leaders are working under constraints that can make …
Unstoppable Voters: Leaders Accelerator
Applications open for this career-advancing, campaign-winning opportunity Voter engagement work is some of the most important in civic life — and some of the most challenging. Often it’s trying to reach people who’ve tuned out, burned out, or been terribly marginalized and disenfranchised. Plus, the typical methods and tools are old, stale, and broken, and …
Creativity is Alive and Well
Recapping our “Finding Creativity When the Work Feels Heavy” Event On February 25, we dove into one of the most valuable but overlooked tools in social justice work: creativity. Alexia Kemerling of the American Association of People with Disabilities and Alexandra Leal Silva of Maremoto joined us to talk about imagination as a strategic resource …
Finding Creativity When the Work Feels Heavy
An Event on How Imagination Can Help us Keep Going Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | 3-4pm ET on Zoom | Free The work of organizing and advocacy is heavy, especially when progress is slow, the stakes are high, and the horrors keep coming. This public, participatory event is for people doing the work of change …
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Fielded. Tested. Guided.
All we learned during our 2025 Field Tests Event What really works in advocacy right now? This year, we partnered with four of our favorite organizations to find out. Earlier today, we shared all we learned. Relive our dynamic hour with our partners American Association of People with Disabilities Be The Ones, Fair Count, and QLatinx …
We Won an Anthem Award!
We are thrilled to share our Unstoppable Voters program is an award winner The Center for Artistic Activism‘s Unstoppable Voters program is now an award-winning initiative! We are thrilled to share that Unstoppable Voters has been honored as a winner in the Human & Civil Rights: Community Engagement category for The 5th Annual Anthem Awards. …
Creating Our Calgary
A partnership with Calgary Arts Development and Recess Calgary to build a culture of artist-led civic participation At the start of 2025, we were approached by Canada’s Calgary Arts Development (CADA), a city agency committed to supporting and strengthening the arts to benefit all Calgarians. They had been focused on supporting arts for social change …
Innovation for Impact Leadership Intensive – Applications Open!
Lead Smarter. Work Lighter. Win More. In today’s advocacy landscape, pressure is high, stakes are rising, and old strategies just aren’t cutting it. Within organizations, burnout is real, resources are tight, and the path to impact can feel unclear. But the best leaders don’t wait for change — they lead it. The Innovation for Impact …
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Turn protests into parties
I’ve been thinking a lot about protests and parties. The other day I got an email promoting a protest that said, “It’ll be an absolute blast—just kidding!” It struck me that there are more effective and positive ways to get someone to a protest (or anywhere). Something we focus on in our workshops is getting …
Creativity is critical when times are tough
These days, it can feel hard to feel creative. There’s so much being thrown at us, so much overwhelm and unease and downright disaster. How can you come up with new, effective ideas to inspire your community to do the work that needs to be done? In January, our Co-Founder and Artistic Director Steve Lambert …
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Protect our Freedoms, our Families, and our Futures
With a little help from our friends at the ACLU Voters Decide. Tomorrow is Election Day in the U.S. We’ve been working hard to support voters and protect the freedom to vote, along with so many amazing voting champions. But of course there are bad actors out there who have been working with the opposite …
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How we’re getting out the vote
Get off the pollercoaster! Artistic activism gets people voting.This is how. Polls aren’t going to decide this election cycle. We are. At the Center for Artistic Activism, we’ve been working across the country to mobilize people in record numbers. We’re getting out the vote in Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Texas, Ohio, New York, and dozens …
Art for the Polls is Underway!
We’re partnering with People for the American Way Foundation to support artists mobilizing voters in their communities Art moves people. In an election year where people are fatigued, frustrated, fearful, and maybe even furious, art is vital. We’ve partnered with People for the American Way Foundation to unleash the unique vision and imagination of artists. …
Announcing: The Voter Concierge Corps!
Helping voters go from “Oh crap” to “Oh snap!” Looking for a fun, new way to really help people this election year? Join the Voter Concierge Corps! The Voter Concierge Corps provides personalized ballot research, shareable voting guides, and 1:1 help to make civic participation simple and fun. Made up of a special group of …