Art

No Art Left Behind

November 30, 2015 Susan Dufresne and Anthony Cody, www.livingindialogue.com Create! Art, Children, Education

By Susan Dufresne and Anthony Cody for Living in Dialogue - In the past 13 years of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top test-driven education policies, art has been pushed to the margins in our schools. Students have lost countless hours for creating art, music and dance that expresses themselves. But artistic expression is like the seedling that forces its way through cracks in the asphalt. This blog series will explore how students and teachers use art to express themselves. The series was inspired by a Facebook post authored by artist and kindergarten teacher Susan DuFresne.

Reflections On The Power And Beauty Of Kayaktivism

November 21, 2015 Bill Moyer, www.backbonecampaign.org Strategize! Activism, Art

By Bill Moyer for Backbone Campaign - I co-founded and direct the Backbone Campaign and for the last 12 years have had the honor to work with an array of incredible people who practice what I call Artful Activism. They are autonomous, creative change agents, a sort of nonviolent guerrilla force with the improvisational sensibility of a free jazz ensemble. They are bold, innovative, skilled, smart and listening deeply to the world around them. Together, we are Team Backbone. Meetings are rare and somewhat scorned,but potlucks and parties are well attended. We prefer action. Whether using puppets, shining messages onto buildings, deploying a flash mob, a blockade, or a flying banner we strive to transform protests into cultural happenings to more effectively reach peoples minds and hearts.

Former Black Panther Uses ‘Bonus Years’ To Make Art

November 20, 2015 Krithika Varagur, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Activism, Art

Krithika Varagur for The Huffington Post - Fixers is a series from What's Working that profiles the people behind the most creative solutions to big problems. Jamal Joseph was just 15 when he joined the Black Panthers, though he fudged that number to 16, reasoning that it was a more plausible age for an activist. It was the famously incandescent year of 1968. On his first day at a Panthers meeting in New York, he met Afeni Shakur, future mother of Tupac. He was overfull of nervous energy and promised the room, "I will kill a white dude right now!

Public Art Fest Made A Real Change In A Detroit Neighborhood

October 2, 2015 Kate Abbey-Lamberts, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Art, Community, Mural

Kate Abbey-Lamberts for The Huffington Post - A public art festival that brought dozens of murals to a Detroit neighborhood last week also sparked a subtler, but no less inspiring, change in students at a nearby school. Designers, painters and former graffiti artists traveled from as far away as Australia to convene in Detroit for the first Murals in the Market festival, which wrapped up this past weekend. They painted 45 pieces on the walls of buildings all over Eastern Market, a district best known for its historic public market and as a hub for food production. The festival was organized by Inner State Gallery and its sister company 1xRUN, which publishes art prints. Organizers at 1xRUN have put on mural festivals in cities around the world, but bringing artists to their own neighborhood was particularly meaningful, said Jesse Cory, one of the founders of the gallery and company.

Occupy Objects Recall Passion Of Hong Kong Protests

September 21, 2015 Vivienne Chow, www.scmp.com Resist! Art, Hong Kong, Occupy Central

By Vivienne Chow in SCMP - An exhibition of iconic objects collected from the sites of last year's Occupy protests will open on Saturday, two days before the first anniversary of the start of the pro-democracy movement. Hereafter: Objects from the Umbrella Movement will showcase 60 objects out of a total of 380 pieces collected from protest sites in Admiralty, Causeway Bay and Mong Kok. The organisers, Umbrella Movement Visual Archive, said they retrieved the objects before police began clearance operations in December to end the 79-day sit-ins. Sampson Wong Yu-hin, one of the organisers, said the passion and creative energy of the protests were unprecedented, and the objects served as a snapshot of the movement.

Protesting Students ‘Occupy’ Delhi Art College With Graffiti

September 18, 2015 Dipanita Nath, www.indianexpress.com Resist! Art, Creative Resistance, India, Non-Violence, Youth

By Dipanita Nath in Indian Express - Threads criss-cross a patch of a wall like a colourful cobweb gone chaotic. Through the artwork, a third-year student of Applied Art, Aditya Verma, is registering his protest against the College of Art, Delhi. “Look at the base of this wall, it is cracked like the system here. The college covers the crack with paint but does not repair it. My threads may be weak and break, but they sure as hell can highlight the problem of the crack,” said the 21-year-old. Students of the college have been on strike since August 31 to demand better infrastructure, equipment, staff and sanitation facilities, among others. Since Tuesday, the 16th day of the protest, the students have been “occupying” the campus the way only artists can — by covering the walls and pathways with graffiti.

The Art Of The Black Lives Matter Movement

September 17, 2015 Antwan Sargent, www.i-d.vice.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Art, Black Lives Matter (BLM)

By Antwan Sargent in Vice - Since the start of the internet-driven #BlackLivesMatter movement in 2012, following the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and amplified by innumerable incidents since, artists like Pendleton have sought to represent its issues visually and conceptually—from police brutality to structural inequality to trans violence. The Black Lives Matter website states: "Every 28 hours a black man, woman, or child is murdered by police or vigilante law enforcement in America." It's a reality that has pulled the #BlackLivesMatter movement from social media to the streets. It is also what has motivated a multitude of artists to integrate themes of social justice directly relating to Black Lives Matter into their work.

NBC Today Show Cuts Off Janelle Monàe On #BlackLivesMatter

August 17, 2015 Kim Bellware, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Art, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Media

By Kim Bellware in Huffington Post - Janelle Monàe's Friday morning performance on NBC's "Today" was lively, original and cut short -- right when she started to talk about police brutality. The "Tightrope" singer appeared with collaborators from her new custom record label, Wondaland, in support of the collective's new EP, "The Eephus" (see her interview with "Today" above). At the end of her performance of "Hell You Talmbout," a rousing protest song for the Black Lives Matter movement, Monàe told the crowd: Yes Lord! God bless America! God bless all the lost lives to police brutality. We want white America to know that we stand tall today. We want black America to know we stand tall today. We will not be silenced...

Prison Art Arrives At Governor’s Island In “Escaping Time” Show

August 3, 2015 Sarah Cascone, www.news.artnet.com Create! Art, Mass Incarceration, Prison

By Sarah Cascone in Artnet - "Escaping Time: Art From U.S. Prisons," an exhibition opening this weekend on Governor's Island, looks to highlight the power of rehabilitation. Featuring 200 artworks including pieces by noted prisoner-turned-painter Anthony Papa as well as condemned killer Charles Manson (but not by recently-killed escapee Richard W. Matt), the show also serves as a reminder of the island's historic past. Today, Governors Island is New York's summer playground, a picturesque island full of art, bike trails, and shaded picnic spots, but not that long ago, its 19th-century fort, Castle Williams, was actually used as a prison, first during the Civil War, and later for offenders within the US Army. "Art offers prisoners a new conviction that, although their circumstances may seem inescapable, their memories, experiences, and hopeful dispositions are preserved," explained curator Anastasia Voron, director of exhibitions at New York's Wallplay, in a statement.

LAPD Convinces LA Times To Fire Editorial Cartoonist, Ted Rall

July 29, 2015 Ted Rall, www.anewdomain.net Resist! Art, Freedom of Press, LAPD, Los Angeles, Media, police brutality

By Ted Rall in A New Domain - As an editorial cartoonist for The Los Angeles Times, I have drawn numerous cartoons critical of the Los Angeles Police Department’s abuse, corruption and heavy-handed incompetence. Now it seems the LAPD has gotten even: It has convinced the Times to fire me. At issue is a blog I wrote to accompany my May 11, 2015 cartoon for the Times. It was about an announced LAPD crackdown. Not on violent crime, but jaywalking. I opened with a personal anecdote from nearly 14 years ago, when a Los Angeles police officer ticketed me for jaywalking on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood. The date was October 3, 2001. I’ll get into the allegations below the fold. But first, here is a far-from-complete sample of LAPD-related cartoons I’ve drawn for The Times and some other publications. . .

“Blued Trees.” Art To Stop A Pipeline?

July 28, 2015 Sane Energy Project, www.saneenergyproject.org Resist! Art, Environment, Oil Pipeline, Trees

By Sane Energy Project - Many are familiar with the Canadian artist who stopped an oil pipeline from crossing his property by copyrighting the top 6″ of his soil. Now, an American artist has been tapped by a team of advocates hoping to do the same with the Spectra AIM (Algonquin Incremental Market) pipeline. The high-pressure AIM pipeline would transit within one hundred and five feet of the Indian Point nuclear facility. In February 2015, a group of New York State residents, responding to the abuse of eminent domain that has already been demonstrated by pipeline companies (such as Williams, the builder of the Constitution pipeline), and is threatened by Spectra in the multiple states that AIM would cross, decided to take action.

Black Woman Artist Poses Nude At Former NYC Slave Trading Sites

July 8, 2015 Black Girl With Long Hair, www.blackgirllonghair.com Resist! Art, Black Womyn, History, Power, Resistance

By Black Girl With Long Hair - As a time traveler I’m very invested in the past and our future. I see myself, the people who built this city and country as one. They deserve so much recognition for their sacrifice and contributions, something that is still being denied them. There was a force deep inside of me that needed to pay homage to those who played a pivotal role in the early history of this city, and the spaces in which they existed. I wanted to uncover those places where a tangible link to the past exists. Being a documentarian at heart I wanted you to feel and see those spaces, let your mind wonder. What does a Black body look like today in the place where they sold human beings 250 years ago? No other medium but photography and film could do that.

Hidden Treasures Now Online: Archive Of Radical Posters

July 4, 2015 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Create! Art, History, Revolution

By the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. We are excited to share with everyone these Labadie Collection posters. Acquired over the past 100 years, they range in topics from anarchism (our strongest collecting area) to civil liberties, anti-colonialism, anti-war/pacifism, feminism, labor, youth and student protest, ecology, Occupy, and more. Due to their format, until now, we have only been able to provide very limited access. Our hope is that they will get more use now that everyone can view them. This was a joint effort which included highly qualified staff from several units in the Library: Conservation, Copyright Office, Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) and Special Collections.

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