Fighting for Abortion Rights with Creativity and Impact Join us for Ways to Show Up this Monday, June 27th at 4pm ET. Let’s talk about how to help support abortion rights. Whether you’re a long time activist or new to this, we’ll discuss how to support other groups and people with your passion and creativity. …
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Unstoppable Voters Workshop
This special workshop will be online on June 8th, 15th, and 22nd from 6-8pm ET. It’s designed to help people who want to implement creative projects to combat anti-voter efforts in the U.S. Apply below to participate for free. Applications for the workshop were due June 4th at 3pm ET. What will happen in the …
Unstoppable Voters 2021
Our Unstoppable Voters project is fighting anti-voter efforts through creativity, joy, humor, and innovation. We support and fund wild, experimental, funny and joyful projects and help make them more impactful through training, research and community building. We held an information session about Unstoppable Voters; notes and a recording are here. We just closed applications for …
Big Win for Vaccine Access!
This week pharmaceutical corporations lost out to Care Bears and the power of creative activism. On Wednesday May 5, we saw our past year of creative organizing around equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines pay off in a big way. As you know, the Center for Artistic Activism been working alongside the access to medicines movement …
SuperCorsa: How To Make High Performance Artistic Activism
A special course in March & April 2021, sponsored by Voqal. SuperCorsa (formerly known as the Master Class in Artistic Activism) will be an online course taught by the experts at Center for Artistic Activism. It is free to you, thanks to Voqal’s sponsorship. The SuperCorsa will take place over four 2-hour sessions in March …
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Fighting Corruption Creatively
The Center for Artistic Activism is working with Open Society Foundations on Regional Creative Hubs: a multi-year project that is changing anti-corruption activism in some of the most impacted regions in the world. We are working with over 50 artists, activists and investigative journalists in West Africa and Western Balkans to combat corruption using creativity. …
Amp Up Your Rally
Heading to a count the vote rally, like one to Protect the Results, and want to add something extra special? Here are things you can do to cultivate joy, unity and power in these chaotic days: Please, no boring events We need actions that are exciting, celebratory, and keep people motivated and energized for the …
Unstoppable Voters Projects
This is the roundup of the artistic activism projects we supported aimed at celebrating voting rights and countering voter suppression in the 2020 U.S. election. 16 States Over 60 events 127 artists, designers, activists Over 20 art forms Over 2.6 mil people exposed to these projects through direct contact and media coverage videos, songs, images, …
London Carnival to Free the Vaccine For COVID-19
Free the Vaccine participants and others staged a carnival in London to bring attention to the need for an affordable “People’s Vaccine” for COVID-19. Pink-headed coronavirus figures were protected by patents from the syringe-wielding vaccinators. The fantastic costumes and storytelling shone bright against a dreary London day, and news outlets from the Telegraph to the …
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We’re looking for an in-house Printmaker
We are issuing an open call for an In-House Printer for a limited time in Fall 2020. The In-House Printer will be invited to be in residence at the Eureka! House in Kingston NY, to help produce materials for the Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 campaign, and support get-out-the-vote efforts, with time to create their …
Imagining America
The folks at Imagining America are putting out a call for submissions from artists and scholars around collective creative engagements in the U.S, in response to the COVID crisis. They’re asking for people to suggest ideas around community meals and discussions, poems, stories, visual reflections for a quilt, and dialogues with people in other parts …
How can we measure the impact of art and creativity?
Imagine you want to help young people in West Africa use their creative skills to engage their peers in political dialogue about gender violence. Or you want to train artists and scientists to collaborate on truly innovative and creative ways to teach people about pressing science issues like climate change. Or you want to create …
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Why Support Center for Artistic Activism this year?
Why support artistic activism right now? What does artistic activism do? And how does it help? And what the heck is C4AA doing about it?
How to Win
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Alumni Spotlight: POETYK PRYNX
One of our amazing alumni, Prince Poetyk, is a prolific Ghanaian poet, who is using his creative activism training to organize around mental health issues.
The Copenhagen Experiment
This is the first ever public experiment on the comparative efficacy and afficacy of artistic activism vs more traditional forms of activist intervention.
Webinar #26: Social Emergency!
We’re talking with the fantastic Kenneth Bailey, lead at The Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI).
Webinar #25: How Do We Know If It Works Part 2
Part 2 of one of our most popular webinars with scholar/activist Jan Cohen-Cruz and Executive Director Deborah Fisher from A Blade of Grass (ABOG)
Webinar #24 Art Action Profiles
Two of our 2017 Artistic Activism grantees, Arian Kajtezovic of Croatia and Kate McGrew of Ireland, talk about TRANSummer Camp, A Day in the Life of An Escort and their other projects.
Webinar #18: How Do We Know If It Works? Part 1
This is one of our most popular webinars. We’re sorry if you missed it happening live, but you can check out the video, which is 97.587% as great. Sign up for future webinars to get in on the live action. In this webinar, Steve and Steve talked with the fantastic scholar/activist Jan Cohen-Cruz and A …
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