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 Action Switchboard and will be helped forward by facilitators. Please sign up …
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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 museum? Could you tell us about the training …
CAA Co-Founder Stephen Duncombe’s lecture on Creative Activism from an event in Copenhagen, Denmark has been immortalized on Youtube; check it out below!
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 your …
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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 hosted a group of Pakistani Visual …
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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 partisans who inhabit our public life, all that …
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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 check out the two links below: Scotsman, Nov 19th: …
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 everything is online now, we still have some work …
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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 activists: Melanie Cervantes is a Xicana graphic artist whose work includes black and white illustrations, paintings, …
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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, performance, print, painting or puppet in the show “Exuberant Politics.” EP celebrates the intersection of art …
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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 Dirty Canteen Documentary will focus on Veteran-Artists who have taken on the mission of storytelling by trading in their rifles and rucksacks for …
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 the jungles of …
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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 for social change! Grants are available to both individual artists and collectives/organizations: ABOG Fellowship for Socially Engaged Artist A one-year fellowship for individual artists and collectives. Fellowships pair …
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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 inequalities, labor, gender, and social movements, mostly through qualitative and participatory research. While in college, Marianela was a student …
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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 effects are damaging to society. So what can …
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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. Michael Applegate “I was in the Navy for 8 years from 1998–2006 and joined IVAW in …
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