Projects tagged "Visual Arts"

COVID-19 RELIEF FUND TO GIVE $10 MILLION TO ARTISTS
Practitioner:
Artist Relief fund
Date:
Apr 8 2020
A coalition of more than twenty national arts funders has launched an emergency relief fund that will provide millions of dollars to artists struggling financially in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, which has more than 400,000 confirmed cases of the virus. The Andrew W.
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Independence Square Sculpture: "New Ukraine"
Practitioner:
Roti
Date:
Jan 7 2014
French street artist Roti installed a 4-ton marble sculpture in Independence Square in Kiev Ukraine, as an expression of solidarity with government resistors and protestors. The sculpture depicts a woman's body emerging from water.
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'Orheim, Light of Life' exhibition with three generations
Practitioner:
Seungkyoo Han; Lee Woon-sik, Lee Sunkyeong, and Han Junkyu
Date:
May 28 2023
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Watch Your Artists Grow
Practitioner:
Great Bend Schools
Date:
May 13 2021
For the past 20 years, Great Bend school district art teachers have been letting their students collaborate on an art project at the Barton County Historical Society Museum. This year, they will ground their efforts in working together to make a mural. Their teachers are trying to instill the fact that art builds community, as it has here for the past two decades.
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Ice Watch London
Practitioner:
Olafur Eliasson
Date:
Dec 11 2018
The Guardian: Olafur Eliasson is putting the chill into climate change. The revered Scandinavian artist has placed 24 large blocks of centuries-old ice, harvested from the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland, in a circle outside the Tate Modern in London, with another six on display in the City.
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Wuming Art Collective
Practitioner:
Zhao Wenliang, Yang Yushu, Zhang Weu and fellows
Date:
Jan 1 1969
The Wuming Painting Collective, formed in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), was a clandestine group of artists who defied the authoritarian control over art and expression. In a time when all art was harnessed as propaganda to glorify the state and Chairman Mao, Wuming artists turned their gaze toward everyday life, painting still lifes, street scenes, human figures, and most iconically, serene landscapes.
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Natural Intervention
Practitioner:
Zonenkinder
Date:
Jan 1 2006
German Forests Come Alive Through Creative 'Natural Intervention '
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Markig Time MoMA
Practitioner:
MoMA PS1
Date:
Apr 1 2021
This major exhibition explores the work of artists within US prisons and the centrality of incarceration to contemporary art and culture.
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Shine MSD
Practitioner:
Sawyer Garrity, Andrea Peña, Brittani Kagan, students and faculty of MSD
Date:
May 4 2018
Shine, written by Stoneman Douglas students Sawyer Garrity and Andrea Peña in response to the tragic shooting at their school on February 14, 2018 to inspire unity, hope, and change. MSD alum Brittani Kagan collaborated with students and faculty to create this music video to honor the victims and the school.
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Hot Exhibition
Practitioner:
Alper Dostal
Date:
Sep 27 2017
HOT ART EXHIBITION — is a series of visualizations following the question: What would happen if there would be no air conditioner during an extremely hot summer? This might be the result.
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Fashion As Political Activism
Practitioner:
NYFW
Date:
Feb 1 2017
After eight days of fall/winter New York Fashion Week, the most prominent trend—pervading both the runways and streets—has been social and political activism. To outsiders, New York Fashion Week may seem trivial in a time of more pressing news, but beyond being an escape, it’s a representation of how art can comment on social and political issues.
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Hypothetical Development Organization
Practitioner:
Hypothetical Development Organization
Date:
Dec 1 2010
Members of this organization begin the narrative process by examining city neighborhoods and commercial districts for compelling structures that appear to have fallen into disuse —“hidden gems” of the built environment. In varying states of repair, these buildings suggest only stories about the past, not the future.
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"Yes I'm Hot of This" Explores the Experience of Muslim American Women One Panel at a Time
Practitioner:
Huda Fahmy, Adams Media
Date:
Dec 11 2018
Comic artist Huda Fahmy has been breaking down walls with her hilarious comic "Yes, I'm Hot in This." In her own words, "What started as my therapeutic way of dealing with the Islamophobia and prejudice I encounter on the daily has now turned into this amazing opportunity to tell the story of the American hijabi."
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'I am not your scapegoat': See the art created by Asian Americans in a year of anti-Asian hate
Practitioner:
Kezia Gabriella, Andrew Kung, Kathleen Namgung, Cindy Trinh, Christine Fang, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Date:
Dec 27 2021
In mid-November, the nonprofit group Asian American Federation released 10 travel posters designed to subvert a question that can instantly get under the skin of any person of Asian descent in the United States: “Where are you really from?”
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"Save the Bees" Street Art
Practitioner:
Louis Masai
Date:
Apr 23 2015
Colony collapse disorder is a colossal issue – and artist Louis Masai wants you take notice. His street art project “Save the Bees” aims to catch your attention by covering the walls of London with bees. Bees are extremely important to agriculture as they pollinate plants - yet entire colonies are disappearing without a solid reasons (there are theories, mostly about pesticide ingredients).
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Fake Air Force 1
Practitioner:
Putian shoe manufacturer
Date:
Apr 26 2021
Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) was registered in 2009 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is a non-profit international membership organization with representative offices in China, India, Pakistan, and London. It has more than 400 member organizations around the world, mainly including cotton growers, cotton textile enterprises, and retail brands. The group aims to promote what it calls "Better Cotton" around the world.
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Viral Trans Uplifting Art & Apparel
Practitioner:
Meg, @megemikoarat
Date:
May 13 2021
By going viral for the fashionable and aesthetically appeasing art for Trans lives, she has developed a new way to advocate for this cause while simultaneously growing her business. By starting by documenting their journey to living their most authentic life on youtube, they have gravitated to TikTok where they have found particular success in spreading awareness through their art and apparel.
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Ice Watch
Practitioner:
Olafer Eliasson
Date:
Dec 1 2018
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has extracted 30 blocks of glacial ice from the waters surrounding Greenland and placed them in public spaces across London, where they will be left to melt. Called Ice Watch, the temporary installation is meant to serve as a visual reminder of the impact of climate change on the environment.
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Transparency and translation of scientific data to mitigate climate change
Practitioner:
Martin Gropius Bau
Date:
Jul 1 2020
Amongst the European network of cultural institutions there has been widespread recognition that the climate crisis is a cultural crisis. In 2019 members of the European Theatre Forum convened and adopted the Dresden Convention, a revolutionary text that aimed to lower the carbon footprint and better the sustainable practices of the theatre and cultural sector at large.
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Can’t Help Myself
Practitioner:
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
Date:
Dec 29 2016
In 2016, the Guggenheim Museum commissioned its very first robotic artwork called Can’t Help Myself (Wannmann, 2016). The artwork is created by two of China’s most controversial artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu and can be described as a robotic arm that has one specific, life-long duty: to prevent the deep-red, bloodlike liquid, which constantly oozes outwards, from straying too far (Weng, n.d.).
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Concrete Creek
Practitioner:
Shai Zakai
Date:
Mar 24 2001
Utilizing excess construction cement that was being dumped into a creek near Beit Shemesh, Israel, Shai Zakai harnessed the unclaimed cement to create an art installation that brought awareness to the ongoing pollution. The project was entitled, 'Concrete Creek' aimed to bring the community closer to their environment. Zakai installed cement flags and set them among the river.
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Claudio Parentela:Contemporary Art with a Freakish Taste!
Practitioner:
CLAUDIO PARENTELA
Date:
Dec 8 2024
Claudio Parentela:Contemporary Art with a Freakish Taste!
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Flower Power
Practitioner:
civilian
Date:
Oct 21 1967
Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. The expression was coined by the American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1965 as a means to transform war protests into peaceful affirmative spectacles.
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Brat Summer: From Charli XCX's *Brat* to a Cultural Movement and the Perfect Sneaker Aesthetic
Practitioner:
Charli XCX
Date:
Jun 7 2024
The Brat Summer movement can be directly traced back to the release of Charli XCX's album "Brat" in 2024. Known for her boundary-pushing pop sound and fierce persona, Charli XCX used "Brat" as a platform to explore themes of defiance, self-empowerment and the rejection of societal expectations.
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K-Pop Fans Flood Dallas PD's App to Help Protect BLM Protesters
Practitioner:
Kpop fans
Date:
Jun 1 2020
Early Sunday morning, the Dallas Police Department's Twitter account tweeted for followers to download its iWatch Dallas app and share videos "of illegal activity from the protests." The police are looking to arrest lawbreakers at weekend demonstrations decrying police violence against black people. The benefit of the app, according to the tweet, was the ability for informants to stay anonymous.
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