Projects tagged "Worldwide"

Andrea Bowers: Art for Social Justice
Practitioner:
Andrea Bowers
Date:
Jul 13 2023
“Artist Andrea Bowers creates powerful works addressing immigration, gender violence, and environmental justice. Her large-scale drawing ‘No Olvidado’ memorializes migrants who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, calling attention to the human cost of border policies.”
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National AIDS Memorial
Practitioner:
JOHN CUNNINGHAM, DUANE CRAMER, MATT KENNEDY, STEVE SAGASER, GERT MCMULLIN, RODDY WILLIAMS, JADA HARRIS, OSCAR FABIAN, BRIAN HOLMAN, RACHELLE AXEL, KAREN HANZAWA, DIANNA CAMPBELL, MIKE FUNG
Date:
Oct 11 1988
The Quilt was conceived in November of 1985 by long-time human rights activist, author and lecturer Cleve Jones. Since the 1978 assassinations of gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone, Jones had helped organize the annual candlelight march honoring these men. While planning the 1985 march, he learned that over 1,000 San Franciscans had been lost to AIDS.
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Dirty Money in Art & Big Pharma
Practitioner:
Nan Goldin & P.A.I.N.
Date:
Jul 20 2018
Between 1995 and 2017 the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin brought in $35 billion USD in revenue for Purdue Pharma, most of which went directly into the hands of the Sackler family.
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TOMS One Day Without Shoes 2012
Practitioner:
TOMS Shoes
Date:
Apr 10 2012
One Day Without Shoes. It's that time again. We're going barefoot on April 10 and we hope you'll join us. 
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