Learn about our Unstoppable Voters: Leaders Accelerator cohort Our Unstoppable Voters: Leaders Accelerator fills a gap in voter engagement work. Traditional tactics are struggling to move the people who’ve disengaged or been shut out of civic processes. This program is here to change that, providing expert guidance, tools, and funding to help leaders bring more …
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How to Find Radically Ridiculous Election Ideas
Get Trained in Tactical Frivolity | Sept 8 | 7-8pm We’re teaming up with some of the best artistic activists we know to offer a free training in tactical frivolity and how to deploy it for the U.S. midterm elections this fall. On September 8 from 7-8pm ET: Register Here Sometimes our registration system can …
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Announcing: A Radically Ridiculous Midterm Accelerator
Get Training and Support for Tactically Frivolous Election Actions this Fall Register for the Kickoff “This sh*t is ridiculous!” We’re guessing that’s a sentence you’ve yelled (out loud or just in your head) many times, in response to the many &#$!% things happening in our government and in our country. But now, with the November elections …
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Recapping Creative Leadership in Action
What We Heard, What We Learned, and What’s Next Creativity makes leadership work. When leaders and their teams have space to imagine new approaches, they build better campaigns, stronger coalitions, and the stamina to keep going. But under the pressures most leaders face right now, creativity is often the first thing that gets squeezed out. …
Unstoppable Voters: Leaders Accelerator
Applications open for this career-advancing, campaign-winning opportunity Voter engagement work is some of the most important in civic life — and some of the most challenging. Often it’s trying to reach people who’ve tuned out, burned out, or been terribly marginalized and disenfranchised. Plus, the typical methods and tools are old, stale, and broken, and …
Finding Creativity When the Work Feels Heavy
An Event on How Imagination Can Help us Keep Going Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | 3-4pm ET on Zoom | Free The work of organizing and advocacy is heavy, especially when progress is slow, the stakes are high, and the horrors keep coming. This public, participatory event is for people doing the work of change …
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Fielded. Tested. Guided.
All we learned during our 2025 Field Tests Event What really works in advocacy right now? This year, we partnered with four of our favorite organizations to find out. Earlier today, we shared all we learned. Relive our dynamic hour with our partners American Association of People with Disabilities Be The Ones, Fair Count, and QLatinx …
We Won an Anthem Award!
We are thrilled to share our Unstoppable Voters program is an award winner The Center for Artistic Activism‘s Unstoppable Voters program is now an award-winning initiative! We are thrilled to share that Unstoppable Voters has been honored as a winner in the Human & Civil Rights: Community Engagement category for The 5th Annual Anthem Awards. …
We’re a Finalist for an Anthem Award! (cue the confetti cannon)
BIG NEWS: The Center for Artistic Activism is officially an Anthem Awards Finalist for our Unstoppable Voters program! We’re being recognized in the Human & Civil Rights: Community Engagement category, and we’re feeling extremely unstoppable about it. The Anthem Awards celebrate changemakers who use creativity to spark real-world impact, and that’s what Unstoppable Voters is …
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Innovation for Impact Leadership Intensive – Applications Open!
Lead Smarter. Work Lighter. Win More. In today’s advocacy landscape, pressure is high, stakes are rising, and old strategies just aren’t cutting it. Within organizations, burnout is real, resources are tight, and the path to impact can feel unclear. But the best leaders don’t wait for change — they lead it. The Innovation for Impact …
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Action Energizer Lab
A free workshop designed to give you practical tools and inspiring ideas to level up your activism. Register now! Join the Action Energizer Lab On Wednesday, June 25th from 6-7 pm ET, learn 9 simple techniques to make your actions more exciting, more engaging and get results. The Action Energizer Lab is a 60-minute, fast-paced workshop designed to give you practical tools and inspiring …
Event Recap: Teaching Creativity to Inspire Social Good
Watch the recording, read key takeaways, and get helpful resources On Thursday, April 17, 2025, we partnered with Project Pericles for Teaching Creativity to Inspire Social Good. This uplifting webinar focused on how creativity is a powerful tool for civic engagement and inspiring social good. During the event, participants: The webinar was for faculty and …
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Teaching Creativity to Inspire Social Good
A special event to spark innovative ideas for your civic engagement work Join us Thursday, April 17, 2025 from 4:30-5:15 pm ET as we partner with Project Pericles for an uplifting webinar about how creativity is a powerful tool for civic engagement and inspiring social good. Hear from faculty about how they’ve used innovative creative …
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Our Observer Phase
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, and thinking about at the Center for Artistic Activism in the aftermath of the 2024 U.S. Election In our workshops, we teach our view of the Creative Process. It’s four phases that we’re constantly running through in a cycle: In the aftermath of the 2024 U.S. election, we are …
We’re ready for the work ahead
It wouldn’t hurt this badly if we didn’t care this much. Remember that we are worth fighting for. We’re the ones we’ve been waiting for. It’s never going to be a candidate or an elected official. It’s always going to be us. Standing with and for each other. Despair is the ultimate tool of authoritarianism. …
Protect our Freedoms, our Families, and our Futures
With a little help from our friends at the ACLU Voters Decide. Tomorrow is Election Day in the U.S. We’ve been working hard to support voters and protect the freedom to vote, along with so many amazing voting champions. But of course there are bad actors out there who have been working with the opposite …
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How we’re getting out the vote
Get off the pollercoaster! Artistic activism gets people voting.This is how. Polls aren’t going to decide this election cycle. We are. At the Center for Artistic Activism, we’ve been working across the country to mobilize people in record numbers. We’re getting out the vote in Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Texas, Ohio, New York, and dozens …
Art for the Polls is Underway!
We’re partnering with People for the American Way Foundation to support artists mobilizing voters in their communities Art moves people. In an election year where people are fatigued, frustrated, fearful, and maybe even furious, art is vital. We’ve partnered with People for the American Way Foundation to unleash the unique vision and imagination of artists. …
Event Recap: Creative Election Engagement
Across the Curriculum and Across Your Campus This Fall On Friday, September 27th, we teamed up with Project Pericles for Creative Election Engagement Across the Curriculum and Across Your Campus This Fall. This dynamic session explored fun and interactive ways to spark creativity and get students engaged with the upcoming 2024 election. During the event, …
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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: This event has already …
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