Posts in Social Justice

Ai Weiwei’s installation Straight (2008–2012)

Arts Activism Thrives on Solidarity

Using 150 tons of rebar salvaged from collapsed schools in the Sichuan earthquake, Ai Weiwei’s installation Straight[…]

"The Revolution Started Here and It Never Left" guerilla light installation by the Boston art collective, Silence Dogood. Image: Mike Ritter, via Yello by Hunter Schwarz.

What is Arts Activism?

“The Revolution Started Here and It Never Left” guerilla light installation by the Boston art collective, Silence[…]

Where is today’s resistance music?

Where is resistance music today?

Music once had the power to unify across racial and political divides In the 20th century, protest[…]

Get booked

Get booked

You can be an art activist by buying a book on April 19 Create to Liberate Idea[…]

American Banned Stand

American banned stand

Organize a pop-up reading with banned children’s books We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores,[…]

Good grief

Good grief

Bury democracy on April 19 We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores, book clubs, brave[…]

Let them eat cake

Let them eat cake(walk)

We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores, book clubs, brave non-profit or government organizations and[…]

Give it a Chants

Give it a chants

We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores, book clubs, brave non-profit or government organizations and[…]

Shopping spree and flee

Shopping spree and flee

We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores, book clubs, brave non-profit or government organizations and[…]

Write "Putin's Place"

Write “Putin’s Place”

We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores, book clubs, brave non-profit or government organizations and[…]