A program to support U.S. artists creatively engaging in the 2024 election Are you an artist who wants to use your creativity to inspire people to vote this year? Review our special Art for the Polls online workshops! Earlier this month, we provided resources and insights to help artists channel their unique skills and imagination …
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Art for the Polls: Apply for Project Support!
Apply for funding and mentorship to realize your creative civic engagement projects Applications are now closed Attendees (or viewers) of the Art for the Polls workshops who want to realize creative campaigns that support voters in New York or North Carolina can apply for project funding and mentorship via the application below. We’re looking for …
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Art for the Polls
Our program to support U.S. artists creatively engaging in the 2024 election Are you an artist who wants to use your creativity to inspire people to vote this year? Join our special Art for the Polls online workshop! On July 9 from 5-7pm ET, we’re providing resources and insights to help you channel your unique …
Giving 2024 Our All
We’re supporting over 60 projects all across the country! We’ve been busy! This major year, we’ve been bringing our artistic activism expertise across the country, working hard to help voters and their champions navigate our complex democratic systems to make voting joyful, inspiring, and irresistible. Since the start of the year, we’ve been running over …
Arts + Civic Power: Special Event Recap
How Artists and Advocacy Groups Can Work Together to Supercharge Civic Engagement in 2024 We all know how important this year is for engaging voters. But with so many potential voters feeling apathetic and burned out on politics, how can we overcome all the harsh vibes? With arts and culture! Time and time again we’ve …
Announcing: Unstoppable Voters 2024 Fellows!
We are thrilled to be supporting a record 15 artistic activists in 2024 A supersized election year calls for a supersized Fellowship program, and we are thrilled to share the leaders who make up our two Unstoppable Voters Fellowships for 2024. Hailing from Wisconsin, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama, New York, and DC, these Fellows are working …
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Creative Consulting Happy Hours
Quick, free creative consulting sessions with the Unstoppable Voters team, every Friday. Let’s chat, cheers, and chart better courses forward for the 2024 elections, together. Have an event planned and need ideas for how to make it more successful? Not sure what tactic to choose to accomplish your pro-voter goal? Trying something new and want …
Special Call: Pittsburgh Faculty Fellowship
Turn your Pittsburgh higher education campus into a hub of creative civic engagement in 2024 Apply by November 28 Civically-engaged students change the world. From the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s to innovative methods to ensure climate justice today, students on college and university campuses have worked tirelessly to improve all of our lives. …
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Special Event! Ways to Win with Unstoppable Voters in 2024
Join us on October 24 to learn about the many ways we’ll work with you to win big in 2024 Bold experimentation! Happy hours during the day! Workshops that will make a world of difference! 2024 is going to be a YEAR. So the Center for Artistic Activism and its Unstoppable Voters team has put …
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Get inspired with rats
Learn about Julius Hobson’s amazing 1960s artistic activism campaign As my home city of New York has appointed a rat czar and recently held its first Anti-Rat Day of Action to try to get our rat problem under control, I’m reminded of Julius Hobson and how he took on a rat problem in Washington, DC, …
Unstoppable Voters: Atlanta
Join our special workshop on June 24th to learn how to use the powers of art and activism to help your Atlanta communities Read more about this unique opportunity and apply below Joyful. Vibrant. Safe. Sexy. Accessible. Inspiring. Irresistible. Not the words people often associate with voting, especially not in 2023: when there are staggering …
Arts + Voting = Magic!
If you’re curious about how voting and the arts intersect, join this amazing chance to meet people combining the two — and having a huge impact — in Atlanta and across the country Get your tickets here On Thursday, June 29, from 8-10pm, join us at the incredible community arts space The Bakery Atlanta. The …
Announcing: Unstoppable Voters 2023 Fellows!
We are thrilled to be supporting 6 leading artistic activists and their exceptional voting work Read on to get to know Alejandra, Caroline, Robin, Sara, Mark, and Anne Hailing from Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Wisconsin, and California, our 6 new Unstoppable Voters Fellows are mobilizing voters across the country with extraordinary innovation and impact. Read on …
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Video: What Works in Voting Activism
Hear from five of the most innovative, impactful voting champions And learn how to revolutionize your own voting work! On February 9, we held a special event featuring Jeanine Abrams McLean and Aileen Loy of Fair Count, Abdul Dosunmu of the Young Black Lawyers’ Organizing Coalition, and Becky Bullard and Andrew Dinwiddie of Democrasexy. Check …
Takeaways from Unstoppable Voters 2022
Watch our new video for tips on how to make your pro-voter work more innovative and impactful In 2022, Unstoppable Voters supported over 200 voter mobilization actions, reaching nearly a million people all across the country. Here’s what we learned works to reach voters and turn them out in record numbers: Center celebration, hope, and …
Unstoppable Voters: Pittsburgh DSA
Pittsburgh DSA created an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that protect the freedom to vote with creativity and innovation. Pittsburgh DSA Pittsburgh DSA volunteers mobilized two months of deep canvassing, to hear neighbors’ stories of housing insecurity and help them register to vote and make voting plans. …
Unstoppable Voters: MUNA and HeadCount on Tour!
The Ally Coalitions’s MUNA and HeadCount on Tour! is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that protect the freedom to vote with creativity and innovation. MUNA and HeadCount on Tour! Founded in 2013 by Jack Antonoff (Bleachers) and fashion designer Rachel Antonoff, The Ally Coalition (TAC) is …
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Unstoppable Voters: Spin the Vote
#ArtistsWhoVote’s Spin the Vote is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that protect the freedom to vote with creativity and innovation. Spin the Vote The collective #ArtistsWhoVote activated a variety of locations in and around Arizona State University in October and November 2022. Through a series of …
Unstoppable Voters 2022
In 2022 we helped more people bring more creativity, innovation, and impact to their pro-voter work than ever before Read on to learn about what we accomplished! This year, we set out to make civic engagement as joyful, vibrant, safe, powerful, accessible, inspiring, and irresistible as possible. In the face of some of the most …
Unstoppable Voters: Salsa to the Polls
Alianza Center’s Salsa to the Polls is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that protect the freedom to vote with creativity and innovation. Salsa to the Polls Alianza Center serves Puerto Rican and Hispanic communities in Greater Orlando and throughout the state of Florida. Its core services …