Join our event for educators On Friday, September 27th from 1:00-1:45 pm ET, we’re teaming up with our friends at Project Pericles for Creative Election Engagement! Join us for a dynamic exploration of interactive ways to incorporate creativity and election engagement in your classes this fall semester. At Creative Election Engagement, you’ll: FEATURED SPEAKERS Daniella Mascarenhas …
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Have questions about the election? We’re here to help! Fill out this form and we’ll do all the rest Has this ever happened to you? You want to do your civic duty, and so you take the time out of your busy day to vote. But when you show up you’re told: Or you make …
Exciting updates and opportunities for engaging students this fall With U.S. Election Day fast approaching, empowering the student vote has never been more crucial. Our Unstoppable Voters Faculty Fellows are working hard to meet the moment. Our nine Fellows have spent the entire year pioneering innovative strategies to inspire and mobilize their students. This fall, …
Communications Manager C4AA is seeking a Communications Manager with a minimum of 2-4 years of experience leading communications campaigns, with a proven track record in communications strategy development and implementation, content creation and brand management. This position is open to anyone authorized to work in the U.S. at 30 – 40 hours per week, working …
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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 …
Voting should be joyful, safe, accessible, inspiring, and irresistible, all across the United States. The Center for Artistic Activism’s rigorous experiments help voting be all of these things and more. Going into 2024, we had our work cut out for us. The year posed unique challenges — what had worked before was not necessarily going …
Alexia Kemerling, a 2024 Center for Artistic Activism Unstoppable Voters Fellow, comes to us from the American Association of People with Disabilities. Alexia used creative methods to win big. “I often come into activism from a space of frustration, as I believe many people do. Artistic activism training taught me to spend less energy being angry …
Get insights into what’s really working with voters this year This election year is, to say the least, unique! And so it’s no surprise that what’s going to really energize and mobilize voters must be just as unique, too. In the spring, we ran a dozen experiments to test out what’s really connecting with voters …
We can help! We’re nearing 100 days from Election Day 2024, and if the past few days are any indication, the months ahead of us are sure to be just as weird and unknowable. No matter what happens, we know we’re going to need a surge of energy to get people to vote. That means …
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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 …
Hi, it’s Steve (co-founder of the Center for Artistic Activism) and I’m here to validate you: yup, things are weird. It’s been an unusual month here in the U.S; wild court rulings, the sudden uncertainty around Joe Biden’s candidacy, and someone tried to assassinate Donald Trump. Stability comes from feeling we can somewhat anticipate the …
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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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 …
Let our Faculty Fellows’ pilot programs inform your teaching for the fall and beyond We’re thrilled to share the pilot projects and key takeaways of our inaugural cohort of Unstoppable Voters Faculty Fellows! This diverse group of nine exceptional faculty members from across the nation received specialized training in artistic activism and strategies for infusing …
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The Divine Project supports, invigorates, and expands the practices of New York City-based QTBIPOC artists and creators whose work challenges the status quo and gives way to social change through community building and collaborative artmaking. Center for Artistic Activism, Eureka! and Public Assistants developed this project with support from the Ford Foundation. The project includes …
Faculty-Led Ideas to Strengthen Democracy in 2024 Presented by the Center for Artistic Activism and Project Pericles As campus educators, how can we help students overcome mental and logistical challenges to make sure their voices are heard in this major election year? By embedding creative civic learning in the classroom! Faculty across the nation are …
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Does the world feel like it’s on fire? Sure! But at the Center for Artistic Activism, we always believe that a better world is possible — and we’re going to build that world with you. Join us on June 10th in New York to hear inspiring stories from our Unstoppable Voters program of how we’ve …
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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 …
Faculty-Led Ideas to Strengthen Democracy in 2024 Presented by the Center for Artistic Activism and Project Pericles This event has ended. Access the full recording, takeaways, resources, and more here. As campus educators, how can we help students overcome mental and logistical challenges to make sure their voices are heard in this major election year? …
Newsletter sent on April 18, 2024. If you want to receive our weekly updates, sign up now! Hi friends, We are thrilled to tell you about a series of online talks that the Artistic Activism Research CoLab has been hosting recently. We’ve had some incredible sessions with experts in artistic activism from around the globe. …
