The past decade has witnessed a surge in “artistic activism,” both in practice and its study. Whether it actually works, however, is still a matter of faith more than fact. What has not been done is an ...
Alumni Spotlight: Ummi A. Yakubu
Art Action Academy Conakry, Guinea 2017
Photo of Ummi Yakubu by Ishaya Bako
Ummi is a young professional in the ...
Creative Resistance is a special edition podcast mini-series in affiliation with the Center for Artistic Activism and is hosted by Research Fellow, Sarah J Halford.
EPISODE 5 -- SUCCESS & FAILURE
Creative Resistance is a special edition podcast mini-series in affiliation with the Center ...
Creative Resistance is a special edition podcast mini-series in affiliation with the Center for Artistic Activism and is hosted by Research Fellow, Sarah J Halford.
EPISODE 4 -- CONTEXT
In this episode, we heard from art activists: Ron Goldberg, Elliot Crown, Avram Finkelstein
From Avram ...
Why support artistic activism right now?
Increasingly, we are hearing from artists in our network in the U.S and around the world that they want to use their creative skills ...
Creative Resistance is a special edition podcast mini-series in affiliation with the Center for Artistic Activism and is hosted by Research Fellow, Sarah J Halford.
Tactics & Strategies
In this episode, we hear from art activists Ron Goldberg, Joey Juschka, Diana Arce, André Leipold ...
Creative Resistance is a special edition podcast mini-series in affiliation with the Center for Artistic Activism and is hosted by Research Fellow, Sarah J Halford.
Episode 2: Audience!
In this episode, we heard from art activists Avram Finkelstein, Mark Read and Rachel Brown of The ...
Creative Resistance is a special edition podcast mini-series in affiliation with the Center for Artistic Activism and is hosted by Research Fellow, Sarah J Halford.
In this episode, we meet Diana Arce, who is an artist, researcher, and activist based in Berlin.
Diana’s also the creator of ...
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Pat and the Steve's have been doing C4AA work around the world, so we haven't seen new Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions episodes in some months. However, we have good news. C4AA Research Fellow Sarah J. Halford has delivered Creative Resistance - a podcast ...
“My Utopia looks like the ocean. It feels like inner peace. It sounds like a melody from a kora (music instrument of West Africa). It smells like wet soil after the rain.” Ibrahima Amadou Niang (@IbrahimaANiang) ...
Victoria Catalina is a 2016 Dublin C4AA Art Action Academy Alumni, ...
Alumni Cédric Wilfrid Codo has been engaged in artistic activism since the day “I understood that we could use a camera to show the extent of a social ...
Prince Enoch Kojo Afful participated in the Art Action Academy West Africa 2017 in Conakry, Guinea. Ghanaian born and raised in Nigeria is an art curator, a poet, a spoken word ...
Vivian Peng took part in C4AA’s 2016 Queens Arts Action Academy, supported by the ...
C4AA shook up the 2018 International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam with ...
We had the privilege of training a group of artists and activists in Skopje, Macedonia from June 5-9, 2018. We were last in Macedonia training activists in 2016 ...
UPDATE: Cecilia just got in touch about a major victory for her group, Queens Neighborhoods United who has been fighting the construction of a Target in their neighborhood. ...
Thinking about doing a creative action at the AIDS Conference? Let’s work together. Center for Artistic Activism staff will be on hand to share our expertise. Some workshop tools, design help and materials may be ...
The past decade has witnessed a surge in “artistic activism,” both in practice and its study.
Whether it actually works is however still a matter of faith more than fact. What has not been done is an ...
This is the second part of one of our most popular webinars ever! How do we know if socially-engaged art works? We talk with ...
In this webinar, we got to talk to two of our 2017 Artistic Activism grantees, Arian Kajtezovic of Croatia and Kate McGrew of Ireland about TRANSummer Camp, A Day in the ...
We use Facebook to connect with you, and you use Facebook to connect with us. It’s not our preferred way, but it’s where over 4000 of you have chosen to stay informed about ...
Last year, we were able to give out grants to some of the thousand-ish C4AA workshop alumni. These artistic activists in Croatia, Ireland, The Netherlands, Germany, the UK, and Hungary created seven artistic actions to increase public engagement with the seriously problematic issues of the ...
Our Creative Action Accelerator Program is a new initiative we started to help groups jumpstart their social change campaigns through intensive C4AA mentoring and project implementation. It is in-depth, on-site ...
How Change Happens: Artistic Activism’s Theory of Change
Behind all successful transformative action is a Theory of Change. Artistic Activism is no different. An idea of how change happens helps us choose how we use ...
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 ...
At The C4AA, your contribution goes a long way.
It's tough times and artists and activists reach out to us regularly, wanting more training and resources so they can do their best work for social and environmental justice. People like Carrie in Houston, ...
In this webinar, Steve Lambert has a great talk with Terry about how he uses satire, story, surrealism, comics, video, stickers, art exhibits, products, and so much more to create transformational experiences. We love how he talks about fearless ...
Our new webinar season launched December 1st, 2017 with Stuart Candy and Jake Dunagan of Guerrilla Futures. They use future studies to understand how we can all use visionary thinking to imagine and create better tomorrows.
While many futurists ...
On November 8 - 10, 2017 C4AA was invited to present to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg France at their annual World Forum for Democracy. The Council of Europe is the continent's leading human rights organization.
C4AA Co-Founder Steve Duncombe made the case for artistic activism as a way ...
West Africa Art Action Academy
December 17 - 21, 2017
OSIWA (Open Society Initiative for West Africa), C4AA (The Center for Artistic Activism) and Association Culturelle La Muse invite artists to apply to participate in a 5-day Art Action Academy from December 17-21, 2017 in Conakry, Guinea. ...
Adapted from the C4AA's upcoming book How To Win: The Art of Activism, this is an article by Co-Directors Duncombe and Lambert about how Artistic Activists can use the idea and ideal of Utopia.
Lessons From ...
Many artists want to create work that has a social impact. Unfortunately, organizing a successful social-change campaign is not often part of an artist’s education. The Art Action Academy (AAA), now in its second year at Queens Museum, helps socially-engaged artists make their work more ...
As part of our Arts Action Academy in December 2016 in Dublin, sex workers, artists and activists created and performed this creative action to raise awareness about, and fight against, laws that criminalize sex workers. All of this was conceived and implemented by the Academy participants in ...
Here are 5 things you can do if you want to make change in the world:
1. Steal from the Past
Borrow from successful creative movements (video). Make time to be inspired by others (check out Actipedia).
2. Know How to Manipulate Change Minds
Use cognitive and behavioral science to ...
Are you an artist or creative practitioner interested in challenging public perceptions about sex work in South Africa? If so, please apply to attend our Art Action Academy in May!
In collaboration with SWEAT – Sex Workers Education & Advocacy Taskforce and Sonke Gender Justice, we invite ...
The fantastic Creators Project just posted a new story on us: "Need More Activism in Your Art? Look No Further Than This Center."
A lot of artists might be thinking about how to incorporate more political activism into their practices right about now, and if you’re one of them then you’re in ...
Give your friends or family a can of Whoop Ass or Canned Do Spirit!
Your gift will support effective & creative activist training to counteract intolerance and fear in 2017.
After you donate, click on "Return to Merchant" on the PayPal site, and you will be directed to a page where you ...
Steve Lambert was a panelist in-studio on Al Jazeera’s The Stream on Monday and Tuesday’s show. It aired internationally and the topic was “Art and Activism.” He was a guest with Molly Crabapple, Annya San, and Rajkamal Kahlon.
You can watch archived versions of the shows below or on the Al ...
“Giving Tuesday” is a great reminder to donate your time and money to groups you love. If you would like to support the Center’s work in the next year, or years, as we grow to help more groups win against the dark forces out there, here are some options:
Donate
Simply donate what you can. ...
We're growing!
We're excited to announce our new manager, Rebecca Bray. Rebecca joins us from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History where she has been the Chief of Experience Design.
But Rebecca isn't new to artistic activism. Back in 2002 she was one of the producers of "The ...
This project came out of our recent Arts Action Academy at the Queens Museum. It was conceived of and completed in 24 hours.
Residents of Queens are sending Donald Trump postcards to remind him of the home he seems to have forgotten.
Donald Trump grew up in Queens, the most diverse ...
We are offering free help to individuals and groups who are looking for ways to counteract the dark forces post-election. Join our web-based trainings on the principles of ...
The C4AA's Steve Lambert was on Douglas Rushkoff's podcast, Team Human. Listen to them discuss art, activism, dreams, and how creativity is essential to avoiding burn-out, and ...
ARE YOU AN ARTIST OR CREATIVE PRACTITIONER BASED IN EUROPE?
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN CHALLENGING PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS ABOUT SEX WORK?
If you answered yes to both these questions, THEN YOU SHOULD APPLY TO ATTEND OUR DECEMBER ART ACTION ACADEMY!
The Center for Artistic Activism and the Open ...
This short video includes some of the work the C4AA collaborated on with the Sex Work Education and Advocacy ...
You all probably know that we here at the Center for Artistic Activism regularly train Activists to create more like Artists. But you might not know that we also train Artists to strategize more like Activists.
We've done these Art Action Academy workshops everyplace from MFA programs in ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmosHKR-TqM
In October 2015, in collaboration with Transgender Europe (TGEU) and funded by Open Society Foundations, we travelled to Berlin to carry out a School for Creative Activism Workshop with trans-activists and artists from across Europe. From 8-11 ...
We're extremely proud and excited to announce that we are among one of the first 46 initiatives to have won a funding grant from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation as part of their new Art and Social Justice initiative.
“We wanted social impact and we wanted quality art,” said Alexander ...
We are delighted to announce that we now have three Center for Artistic Activism "Global Fellows," who are sponsored by the Urban Democracy Lab at New York Universty. Our new Fellows will be working on our Æfficacy Project, interviewing artistic activists about "what works, why, and how?" in ...
You probably know us for the workshops we run around the world, like our work this year with sex worker rights advocates in Cape Town, South Africa and trans-gender rights activists in Berlin, Germany. But we also do
"The Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions"
Actipedia.org - our online ...
Last month, in collaboration with Trans Gender Europe (TGEU) and funded by Open Society Foundations, we travelled to Berlin to carry out a School for Creative Activism Workshop with trans activists and artists from across Europe. From 8-11 October, we ...
Coming up in November, Steve Lambert and Stephen Duncombe will be delivering a Center for Artistic Activism workshop at The Creative Time Summit NYC, hosted at the historic Boys and Girls High School campus in Bedford-Stuyvesant - Brooklyn's oldest public high school!
On November 14 and 15, ...
Last Saturday, October 17th, Steve and Steve gave the opening remarks and presented a workshop at Humanity in Action’s New York Conference.
Inspired by the Humanity in Action International Conference, ...
Hallo! Wie geht es dir? We're good, thanks for asking, and we're in Berlin about to start our latest School for Creative Activism - This time we're working on Advocacy Campaigns to Support Trans Activism in Europe, supported by Open Society Foundations. We've got an incredible group of ...
The Center for Artistic Activism invites trans activists and artists to apply to participate in 4-day School for Creative Activism (SCA) to be held in Berlin from 8 to 11 October 2015. The seminar is open to activists from TGEU member organisations currently working on or interested in ...
CREATIVE CATALYST
SYMPOSIUM ON ART & SOCIAL INNOVATION
TORONTO, JUNE 11-12, 2015
Creative Catalyst brings together Canadian artists, designers, researchers, industry, and community members in discussion on how arts and culture catalyzes social innovation.
In the face of "wicked" social ...
Working with several advocates for the decriminalization of sex work, we took over the controversial sculpture "Perceiving Freedom" in Cape Town. The action was the culmination of our School for Creative Activism workshop in Cape Town.
Selected Press
This is Africa - Sex Workers ...
We're delighted to introduce the participants for our workshop on Campaigns to Support Sex Work Activism, funded by Open Society Foundation and taking place in Cape Town, South Africa THIS VERY WEEK!
Say hello to...
Dimitri Delibas
OSF South Africa
Programme Officer
A recent addition to the ...
A monthly podcast about the most popular, highest grossing, mainstream culture. How we can use all that bad stuff for good? In each episode an an academic, an activist, and an artist from the Center for Artistic Activism will navigate through flotsam and jetsam looking for treasure, applying ...
A monthly podcast about the most popular, highest grossing, mainstream culture. How we can use all that bad stuff for good? In each episode an an academic, an activist, and an artist from the Center for Artistic Activism will help navigate through the garbage looking for treasure.
Coming ...
We'd like to introduce you to the participants from our most recent School for Creative Activism workshop in Barcelona...
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Mara Kardas-Nelson is a journalist, advocate, and activist. She lived ...
The School for Creative Activism went to Barcelona to work with activists working on access to medicines. They created an action to get patients to question the arbitrary pricing of pharmaceuticals which was covered in El Diario.
...
Sierra Nevada College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
“Embodied Place: Observations and Notations”
Juried exhibition January 16 – February 27, 2015
Garage Door Gallery: Holman Arts & Media Center
1008 Tahoe Blvd. Incline Village, NV 89451
Open Call for ...
A conceptual artist and author is luring kids into questioning the world and appreciating every smell, texture and mystery in it
At 42, Keri Smith still writes to a pen pal. She deeply appreciates secret passageways. And she sometimes rolls dice to determine which way she walks down the ...
Think back to the exact moment when you decided to become an activist.
Go ahead. We’ll wait.
Was it…
Because someone sent you a petition?
Or because a friend forwarded you an advocacy alert?
Or, I know: was it because you read a really great white paper?
Chances ...
We're pleased to announce a call for applications to a School for Creative Activism training session taking place this December, in Spain.
We're inviting grantees of the Open Society Public Health Program and their allies working on access to medicines to apply to participate in a 4-day ...
CAA had the privilege of working with faith leaders, activists, and community organizers last spring for a collaboration through the Auburn Seminary.
This fall, they turned their dreams into ideas and their ideas into action at NYC's Climate March on September 21, 2014, building their very ...
A Blade of Grass is pleased to announce
Open Engagement 2015
From April 17–19, 2015, Open Engagement will coalesce in Pittsburgh. Established in 2007 by artist Jen Delos Reyes, Open Engagement is an international conference and platform that explores various perspectives on art ...
Our good friends and supporters at Blade of Grass are calling for applications for fellowships. Here's the skinny:
Online application form opens: Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Application Deadline: Monday, November 24, 2014
The ABOG Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art is an active, year-long ...
Makers and re-makers, thinkers and rethinkers, composers and decomposers: It's time to wrestle with climate change. This September, world leaders are coming to NYC for an unprecedented one-day summit on climate change at the UN. We know this is a crucial moment. Across the city, country and ...
Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert are in St. Petersburg for workshop called "Artistic Activism in the Urban Environment" as part of the Media Impact Festival.
Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert working in St. ...
We are excited to announce the next round of participants in our workshop in St. Petersburg – a coalition of artists, activists and engaged citizens from Media Impact, Open Urban Lab, and School of Engaged Art.
Media Impact
Matvei Krilov (Skif) (Gay - Moscow)
activist, artist, poet
Matvei ...
https://vimeo.com/89238473
On Feb. 8-9, 2014, the Yes Lab, the Center for Artistic Activism, and Beautiful Trouble conducted a workshop with fifty participants, including members of eight social justice NGOs and a number of NYU students.
The eight projects that resulted were posted on the ...
Get inside the heads of CAA's co-directors Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert through their interview with we "We Make Money Not Art" where they tackled the following questions:
Is there any way an artist or curator can engage with meaningful artistic activism inside an art gallery or a ...
CAA Co-Founder Stephen Duncombe's lecture on Creative Activism from an event in Copenhagen, Denmark has been immortalized on Youtube; check it out ...
ONE WEEKEND ONLY! Beautiful Trouble, The Yes Lab (via The Yes Men), and Center For Artistic Activism are coming together for a one of a kind melding of the minds to provide an epic weekend of trainings in creative activism! If you're part of an activist group looking to up your game, this is ...
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The Yes Men have ONE MORE WEEK to reach their $75,000 fundraising goal so that The Kindle Project will match it DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR. They are raising money for their new project, the Action Switchboard. Click here to Donate and receive exclusive perks or continue below to read more. ...
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 ...
Article in the Sunday Scotsman about the School for Creative Activism working overseas with Changin' Scotland. 22 November 2013
Radicals, leave dogma at the door – embrace a sense of playfulness and dare to dream of a better Scotland, writes Gerry Hassan
To many of the tribes and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert have a new article in Open! Magazine.
Activist Art: Does it Work?
The first rule of guerilla warfare is to know the terrain and use it to your advantage. The topography on which the activist fights may no longer be the mountains of the Sierra Maestra or ...
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 ...
Marianela Acuña Arreaza
Marianela is a budding community organizer, social researcher and educator. She was born and raised in Venezuela, and she a recent immigrant to the US. Marianela studied Sociology and Arts at the University of Houston. Her research experience is mostly on social ...
The recent reports on the spying programs of phone records and internet activity is unsettling, but no surprise for some of us. Our School for Creative Activism in May was with Muslim-American activists unfairly surveilled by the NYPD. Sweeping surveillance is lazy police work, and the side ...
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.
[thb_divider]
Michael Applegate
“I was in the Navy ...
Larry Bogad is an author, artist, and professor of political performance at U.C. Davis. In this talk he discusses why good theater makes good protest, and why being right is not enough. He is a cofounder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, and founding ...
From some friends of the Center for Artistic Activism:
What is Collective Identity? Sociologist Alberto Melucci suggests that in today's alienated culture people find deep meaning and power through group identities that emerge through political social movements.With I and We, Collective ...
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 ...
Thursday, May 2nd; 7 PM
NYU Tisch, Performance Studies Dept.
721 Broadway, 6th Floor
FREE
Photo 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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Attention New Yorkers! This event is FREE and open to the public. Please join us as we meet and collaborate with aspiring and seasoned creative activists.
Why is it that artists’ collectives typically focused on political activism have emerged in such numbers over the past few years? What ...
Monday, April 1
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Stubbins (Room 112), Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A visual tour of some of the most creative art/activist interventions performed in the context of the counter-globalization movement, and in contemporary urban struggles in Spain, including Las ...
We've received a lot of pleas for extensions, and we get it. You're really, really busy. We're extending the deadline for applications to our School For Creative Activism until March 14. Go home, have some fun and get some rest, and make sure to get it into us in the next two ...
Mohamed Awadh Aboud
Mohamed is the proud father of two daughters. He is an outreach worker with the Omari Project, which advocates for the rights of drug users and works to slow the spread of HIV and reduce harm related to drug use. Mohamed is a hard worker, eager to learn new things and ...
For Immediate Release
Contact: manager at artisticactivism-dot-org
APPLICATIONS FOR 2013 SCHOOL FOR CREATIVE ACTIVISM NOW BEING ACCEPTED
Download 2013 SCA application here.
The Center for Artistic Activism is pleased to announce the beginning of the application cycle for our third year ...
For Immediate Release
Contact: directors at artisticactivism-dot-org
OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION FUNDS THIRD YEAR OF THE SCHOOL FOR CREATIVE ACTIVISM
The Democracy and Power Fund, an initiative of the Open Society Foundations, has announced a third year of funding for CAA's successful School ...
Join us as we attend...
The Aesthetics of Doing: Ethics
A Panel Discussion from A Blade of Grass
With Artists Wafaa Bilal, Andrea Geyer, Dread Scott. Moderated by Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director, Queens Museum of Art
Thursday, January 31st at 6:00 p.m.
Do ethics equal ...
Join us for the premier of 'Let the Fury Have the Hour'
A documentary film by Antonino D'Ambrosio and featuring CAA Director Stephen Duncombe
Friday, December 14th
Quad Cinemas
7:25 PM with Q&A to follow
From CAVU pictures, "Let Fury Have the Hour" attempts to examine the ...
Tuesday, December 4 (NEW DATE)
6:00pm (NEW TIME)
Rosenthal Pavilion (10th Floor)
60 Washington Square South, NYC
This panel discussion commemorates Veterans Day and celebrates
Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection (in
Union Square Park, November 8th through ...
Larry Bogad's ECONOMUSIC
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 | 7-9pm
Presented by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Larry Bogad is an author, performer, and the founding Director of the Center for Artistic Activism/West Coast. He writes, performs, and strategizes with ...
CAA West Coast Director Larry Bogad Performs and Lectures at International Theater Festival
From November 7-11, CAA West Coast Director Larry Bogad performed and lectured at Baltic Circle, an international theater festival held annually in Helsinki, Finland. Check out fantastic photos of ...
WBAI Silent Benefit Art Auction - RESCHEDULED: Wednesday, Dec. 5, 7:30pm
WBAI ART AUCTION Online Bidding until Dec. 4 midnight EST
Steven Kasher Gallery 521 W23rd St NYC
Contact: Andrea Katz 212.209.2828, Jim Wintner 646.242.7909 auction@wbai.iorgThe WBAI Benefit Art Show and Auction ...
From our friends at smartMeme:
JOIN SMARTMEME'S NYC 10TH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVITIES DECEMBER 6!
Help support 10 more years of story-based strategy! To celebrate our first decade we will reflect on the shifts in politics, policy and culture - and how story-based strategy ...
MediaImpact: International Festival of Activist Art
Festival presentation, talks and debates
16 November 2012, 7:00pm
34 Stuyvesant Street, Barney Building (Between 3rd and 2nd Avenues at 9th Street)
NYUSteinhardt, Department of Art & Art Professions, New York
Art that ...
Michael Ellick
Rev. Michael Ellick is the Minister of Judson Memorial Church, and one of the founders of Occupy Faith. In his ministry, he has worked as an organizer and a social justice advocate for Immigrant Rights, Marriage Equality, Single Payer Health Care, Economic & ...
Tarsha Jackson
Tarsha began organizing around prison reform in 2003 when her 11-year-old, mentally ill son was sentenced and served over three years in the Texas Youth Commission for a class C misdemeanor. In her work as an organizer with Grassroots Leadership Texas Reconciliation ...
Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy by CAA co-director Stephen Duncombe is now a free pdf. Part analysis of popular culture, part how-to guide to creative activism, Stephen make a case for how activists can, and must use fantasy and spectacle in their work...and do ...
A New York Comic Con Special Event Sponsored by the Center for Artistic Activism
Hosted by School for Creative Activism graduates Terry Marshall and John Kim (aka Chong Kim) of Occupy Comix
Presented by Bluestockings on Saturday, October 13th at 7pm
Featuring:
David Lloyd, Co-Creator of V ...
From our friends at the YesLabs@Hemispheric Institute:
Creative Activism Thursdays Presents
Stephen Duncombe, October 11th, 2012 at 7PM
RSVP
Join us for an overview of (mainly) US activism: American Revolution, Labor Movement, Civil Rights, Black Power, Feminism, ACT-UP and Occupy, seen ...
On November 6th, Stephen Duncombe will present a special program as part of smArtAction, a student-led art exhibition presented at El Puente and Hostos Community College featuring various art forms and creative interpretations relating to the University of Puerto Rico student ...
Larry Bogad, CAA's West Coast Founding Director, will lead a panel discussion at UC Berkeley tonight entitled "Tactical Performance: Symbolic Sabotage and Satirical Surprise". This presentation will examine recent attempts by creative activists to use theatrical techniques to enhance the ...
New project from the Center for Tactical Magic
Friend of the Center for Artistic Activism, Aaron Gach, has a new project in partnership with some great organizations. You can read more about Aaron in our Artist Interview section.
Stop & Frisk T-Shirts Sold on New York ...
Michael Young
“Michael coordinates the Tax Fairness Organizing Collaborative (TFOC), a network of 28 grassroots organizations in 24 states that are working to increase the fairness and adequacy of the state and federal tax systems. Prior to joining UFE, he organized for safe, secure and ...
For Immediate Release
Contact: directors at artisticactivism-dot-org
CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM AWARDED GRANT TO PUBLISH CREATIVE ACTIVIST MANUAL
A Blade of Grass to Support CAA’s First Book Project
A Blade of Grass, a New York-based non-profit which supports interdisciplinary arts ...
CAA is excited to introduce the participants for the first School for Creative Activism of 2012, held over the weekend of June 8-10 in Austin, Texas. ...
http://vimeo.com/37311580
Friends of CAA are hosting a huge gathering of artistic activists in Barcelona from March 27-31. ‘How to End Evil: 5 Days of Art and Activism’ (or Cómo acabar con el Mal: 5 días de arte y activismo) is open to ALL and needs your support. This huge event ...
Announcing the Yes Lab's Spring 2012 lineup! Stay tuned for additions. All lectures are at 7pm at 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor, unless otherwise noted.
Come meet the revolutionaries who have changed or are changing the world, and those who study them. We’ll be meeting many Thursdays for a ...
For Immediate Release
Contact: directors at artisticactivism-dot-org
CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM AWARDED $75,000 GRANT BY GEORGE SOROS’S OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS
Grant to expand CAA’s School for Creative Activism after Successful Inaugural Year
The Democracy and Power Fund, an initiative ...
Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert are directors of the new Center for Artistic Activism.
Stephen Duncombe is an Associate Professor at the Gallatin School and the Department of Media, Culture and Communications of New York, where he teaches the history and politics of media.
Steve ...
MEDIA ALERT
Contact: Steve Lambert and Stephen Duncombe
directors at artistic activism.org
CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM LAUNCHES WEST COAST BRANCH
Larry Bogad Introduced as Founding Director
The Center for Artistic Activism is proud to introduce Larry Bogad as the Founding Director ...
MEDIA ALERT
Contact: Stephen Duncombe
sd47 at nyu.edu
NYU Launches “Artistic Activism” Research Group
Awarded 10K Funding For Two Years
New York University awarded $10,000 to support research in Artistic Activism beginning this fall. The research group will be headed by NYU professor and ...
Beautiful Trouble will be a book & web toolbox that puts the best ideas and tactics of creative action in the hands of the next generation of change-makers, connecting the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest to the popular outrage of the current political moment.
From ...
The School for Creative Activism is excited to announce the participants of our 2011 workshop training in New York,NY.
(this is a partial list)
Amita Swadhin
Amita Swadhin is dedicated to fighting interpersonal and institutional violence against young people. Her commitments stem from ...
From Lee Walton's site:
School For Artistic Activism: ”Re-Teaching” at the Super G
Recently, Lee Walton and Donovan McKnight were invited to participate in a the School For Artistic Activism in Mebane, NC. Taught by Steve Lambert and Stephen Duncombe, this 3 day intensive was ...
The School for Creative Activism is excited to announce the participants of our 2011 workshop training in Mebane, North Carolina.
LaWana Mayfield
My name is LaWana Mayfield and I reside in Charlotte, NC. I am a community activist working in the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender ...
We were asked these questions by the folks at The Art Newspaper...
Is political art more relevant today?
Stephen: Political art, or at least artistic politics, have been around for a long time. Think about the Bible: it's a story before it's anything else, Moses and Jesus were pretty stellar ...
MEDIA ALERT
Funds Awarded to Support Artists and Activists Working Together in “School for Creative Activism”
Stephen Duncombe (NYU) and Steve Lambert (SMFA) Receive $45,000 Through George Soros’s Open Society Foundations Grant
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