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Grenada’s New Jewel Movement

Formed in 1973, the New Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education, and Liberation, or New JEWEL Movement (NJM) grew out of the Black Power politics and liberation of black nations that began in the 1960s. The March 1979 overthrow of Sir Eric Gairy (who led the country after it gained independence from Britain in 1974)  led by Maurice Bishop is regarded as the …

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Vogue Protest of HB2

Micky Bradford, organizer with the civil rights groups Transgender Law Center and Southerners On New Ground danced in front of police officers protecting the NC Governor’s Mansion as a form of resistance against the signing of HB2, which bans transgender individuals from using public restrooms that don’t match the sex listed on their birth certificates.   “It’s …

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‘A Real Child’ at TN Capital for Welfare Reform

TN state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) was confronted by 8-year-old homeschooler Aamira Fetuga, who presented him with a petition signed by people opposing his welfare bill. 

Shanytown in Harvard Yard

Anti-divestment protest in April 1986 when the South African Solidarity Committee (SASC)  constructed a symbolic ‘shantytown’ in the middle of Harvard Yard with help of over 200 activists. A symbolic 16-foot tall “Ivory Tower” was also erected.   Photo: Copyright © Ellen Shub 2012 All rights reserved  

#BlackOutBlackFriday

A collective formed in response to the Ferguson decision in 2014 that the office responsible for murdering Micheal Brown would not be indicted,  this  “network of concerned artists, activists, and citizens who committed their energy and resources to immediately address the staggering level of human rights violations against fellow Americans throughout the United States.”  The group, led …

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Funk Jazz Kafé

Established in 1994, FunkJazz Kafé has been on the forefront of preserving and cultivating Soul, Funk, R&B, Jazz & Hip-Hop music serving as a collaborative and supportive space for a host of artists since its inception including Outkast, Jill Scott, Cee Lo Green, Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae, India Arie, Jamie Foxx, Bilal, Meshell Ndegeocello, Caron Wheeler, Pharoahe …

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Untitled (Free) at 303 Gallery in New York

Rirkit Tirivanija’s 1992 artwork in which he served curry to visitors at New York’s 303 Gallery. This work was performed again in 2012 at MOMA and is now part of it’s permanent collection.

Dorchester Projects

Artist Theaster Gates renovated previously abandoned buildings on Chicago’s South Side to be repurposed as Library, Slide Archive and Soul Food Kitchen in 2009. Theaster Gates has since become one of the most important artists associated with socially engaged art.

“I Wish to Say”

Interactive public art project where Sheryl Oring dresses in vintage secretary clothing and sets up a mobile office with a typewriter and invites people to share their thoughts in the form of letters. Initially performed in 2008, where she invited people to send messages for President George Bush’s 60th Birthday. The project has seen other iterations …

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Immigrant Movement International

A group that joins community space and creative knowledge to “transform social affect into political effectives,” favoring cultural reciprocity over traditional economic systems.

Museum of Impact

The Museum of Impact presents pop-up exhibitions that examine art and activism through a social justice lens. Museum of impact also faciliatates The Activist Love Letters program for teens to engage with each other and share their feelings about #BlackLivesMatter movement.

The March

Artist Kentuah Davis performance installation in collaboration with Kuyum Arts Investigation Project commission by Alliance Française Accra. The piece uses the function of a flag to critique power of cultural symbols.

CropBox

A farm in a recycled storage container box that uses 90% less water use than conventional and greenhouse cultivation and 80% less fertilizer than conventional cultivation. BroccoliCity has introduced CropBox to urban farmers for neighborhoods without green space in the DC metro area as the “BrocBox.”

Art is…

Performance during Harlem’s African-American Day Parade, September 1983, by Lorraine O’Grady where 15 young actors and dancers use framed viewers with an empty gold picture frame.  “Frame me, make me art!”

Prefigurative intervention

A disruption of space that images an alternative reality or utopia, at least temporarily. These actions give a glimpse of “the world that is possible” by modeling it, earnestly or in jest. For example, Monthly Critical Mass bike rides prefigure a possible city in which bikes are the predominant mode of transportation.  Similarly, many Civil …

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Organize Your Own

The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements Organized by Daniel Tucker, Organize Your Own is a multi-format curatorial platform that invited poets and artists to make new work in response to the archive of  the organization of working-class neighborhoods the October 4th Organization and the Young Patriots Organization in Philadelphia and Chicago respectively (the exhibition takes places in …

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Guerrilla Girls

Anonymous women who use the pseudonyms of dead women artists to challenge hegemony in the art world. The group began in 1984 as a response to The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit An International Survery of Painting and Sculpture where 100% of the artists exhibited were white and less than 8% were women.

Blind Field Shuttle

A participatory public work by Carmen Papalia. Papalia, who is blind, leads groups on an hour long walking tours with their eyes closed to demonstrate the world as experienced by the visually-imapaired.

Picasso Baby

Performance Art by rapper Jay Z. Performed on on July 10, 2013, at the Pace Gallery in New York City. The work was inspired by the work of Marina Abramović and later caused controversy when Abramović expressed feeling used by the artist. directed by Mark Romanek  

The Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR)

Group formed to protest South Africa and Rhodesia’s participation in the olympics, the restoration of Muhammad Ali’d boxing title, the removal of Avery Brundage as president of the International Olympic Committee, and the hiring of more African-American assistant coaches during 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos were members.

Tommie Smith & John Carlos

Medalists in the 1968 Summer Olympics 200-meter race wore black socks without shoes and black gloves when they lowered their heads as a silent gesture of protest while raising their fists in the air while the American national anthem played during their medal ceremony. They were members of The Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR).

Commercial Spectacle & Public Art

Why I can’t take any commentary on Beyonce’s Super Bowl Halftime performance serious…on either side. Pedro Lasch states early in the first lecture that “public art has always been a great way to understand entire societies. It’s through our definition of the public that we define the relations between the visible, the invisible, the national and …

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