Get Creative with your Election Engagement!

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 …

Faculty Fellowship: Fall 2024 Edition

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, …

Announcing: The Voter Concierge Corps!

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 …

The Artistic Activism Test Kitchen

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 …

You wore a superhero cape to work???

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 …

Lunch and Learn – and Draw!

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 …

Trainings + Funding for Artists

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 …

Art for the Polls: Apply for Project Support!

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 …

15 Key Takeaways from our 2024 Faculty Fellowship

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 …

Creative Civic Learning: Special Event Recap

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 …

Giving 2024 Our All

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 …

Special Event! Creative Civic Learning

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? …

Arts + Civic Power: Special Event Recap

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: How a Voting Advocacy Organization Develops a Cultural Strategy

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 …

Special Event! Arts + Civic Power

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 …

Announcing: Unstoppable Voters 2024 Fellows!

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 15 leaders who make up our two Unstoppable Voters Fellowships for 2024. Hailing from Wisconsin, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama, New York, and DC, these six Fellows …

Creative Consulting Happy Hours

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 …