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. …
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 …
Cleveland VOTES came to the Center for Artistic Activism in 2023 with a question: how could they, a civic engagement and voting advocacy organization, create a cultural strategy that would enable them to work with artists and other culture creators and together expand the ways in which Cleveland voters and communities participate in politics and …
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How Artists and Advocacy Groups Can Work Together to Supercharge Civic Engagement in 2024 This event has ended. Access the full recording, takeaways and more resources, here. 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 …
War is the ultimate failure of imagination. We must imagine better solutions and work toward them. Fortunately there’s already a homegrown left vision in Israel-Palestine, that’s supported by a large and increasing number of Arabs and Jews. It’s utopian but also deeply pragmatic. Join us and imagine a way forward for Palestine-Israel Tuesday | February …
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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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Development Consultant The Center for Artistic Activism is looking for a Development Consultant contractor. The work will be remote and part-time (average of 20 hours per month, with potentially more time leading up to annual appeals). The hourly rate for this contract will be between $45.00 – $53.00, depending on experience level. About Us: The …
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We loved talking with the brilliant Douglas Rushkoff, one of the smartest and most curious thinkers about social change, technology, revolution, and culture. In this episode, Rushkoff — who is an Advisory Board Member of the Center — asks the best questions about how and why artistic activism works. We highly recommend his Team Human …
Program Assistant C4AA is seeking a Program Assistant to help the organization support artistic activism the world over. This is a temporary staff position until December 31, 2024, open to anyone authorized to work in the U.S. at 30-40 hours per week, working remotely (preferably in the NY, FL, and MD areas) on a flexible …
Thanks to our fantastic community, we didn’t just meet but totally crushed our end-of-year fundraiser. We raised over $50,000—now that’s how you wrap up the year in style! We’re grateful for each and every one of you who contributed, your generosity, and your belief in the transformative power of artistic activism.
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 …
