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Fine Arts with Purpose

Diego Rivera created works during the Mexican Revolution that depicted the struggles and aspirations of the Mexican people. His mural, "Creation," was an allegorical composition with varied mythological and religious motifs. During the painting of the mural, Rivera felt compelled to carry a pistol with him to protect himself from right-wing students.

Painting. Drawing. Sculpture. Printmaking. Art That Speaks.

Fine artists use their talents to reveal truth, foster connection, and challenge injustice. How will your work make an impact today?

If you are a fine artist who paints, draws, sculpts or makes prints, here are ways you might harness your creativity and talents to inspire, mobilize and unite people around common causes:

  • Create Symbolic Works: Art holds meaning beyond words. Whether through allegory, abstraction, or direct commentary, fine artists craft symbolic pieces that provoke thought, expose injustice, and inspire action.

  • Make Public Art or Murals: Walls tell stories. Murals and public installations transform shared spaces into canvases of resistance, amplifying voices and reflecting community struggles in a way that demands attention.

  • Initiate a Collaboration: Art builds bridges. Joining forces with fellow artists, activists, or local organizations strengthens movements, sparks dialogue, and fosters collective creativity in pursuit of change.

  • Fabricate an Art Installation: Immersive experiences make issues undeniable. Whether tackling healthcare, climate justice, human rights, or digital isolation, installations can engage audiences in visceral, thought-provoking ways.

  • Help Raise Funds and Awareness: Art can be generosity in motion. Whether donating pieces to auctions or creating works specifically to raise funds, artists can use their craft to directly support communities and causes.

Create Symbolic Works

"Statue of a Girl of Peace" is by Korean sculptors Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung. The controversial piece represents the "comfort women" that the Japanese military forced into sexual slavery during World War II. There are two dozen of these sculptures in memorial sites around the world. Photo by Amy Lieu.

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Make Public Art or Murals

"Monument Against Fascism," created by Esther Shalev-Gerz and Jochen Gerz, is a public artwork located in Hamburg-Harburg, Germany. Residents engraved their names into the twelve-meter-high lead–clad column during the seven years it took for the tower to intentionally descend into the earth.

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Initiate a Collaboration

“Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40” explored inclusion, exclusion, ownership and rights of access to resources like air, land, water and even culture. The program also considered the arts' role in society as a call to vigilance, a way to bear witness and a potential act of resistance.

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Fabricate an Art Installation

South African artist William Kentridge's multimedia and immersive installation, "More Sweetly Play the Dance," combines film, sound, shadow play and drawings to explore themes of oppression, social injustice, and the plight of those desperate to escape poverty and violence.

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Help Raise Funds and Awareness

At a charity art auction for the Rafał Brzoska Foundation in Poland, Igor Mitoraj’s sculpture “Torso alato" fetched US$1.7 million. The entire art auction generated US$11.5 million. Initiatives to improve the lives of children and youth received the proceeds.

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"The Skin Speaks a Language Not its Own" by Bharti Kher.

In "The Skin Speaks a Language Not its Own," Bharti Kher uses the symbolism of a dying female elephant covered with sperm-shaped bindi as a means to contemplate the effects of popular culture, mass media and consumerism on the culture of India.

Käthe Kollwitz, a German artist, used her work to address social issues such as poverty, war, and the suffering of the working class.
"The Raft of the Medusa" by Théodore Géricault was created in 1818-1819 and is displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

"The Raft of the Medusa" by Théodore Géricault was created in 1818-1819 and is displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The oil painting depicts the aftermath of the tragic shipwreck of the French frigate Méduse, a scandal at the time, highlighting the incompetence and negligence of the French government.

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