Art

Snowden Statue Freed, Here’s A 3D File To Print Your Own

May 8, 2015 Prachi Gupta, www.animalnewyork.com Educate! Art, Creativity, New York City (NYC), Snowden

The Edward Snowden bust that was illegally affixed to a war monument in Fort Greene Park has been recovered from the NYPD. The statue, which sat on a column in the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument for just a few hours on April 6 before park officials took it down, had been in police custody for exactly one month. “We are pleased that we could resolve this matter without litigation, and appreciate the City’s commitment to artistic expression, even though the artists failed to dot every ‘i’ and cross every ‘t’ when initially erecting their sculpture,” said Ronald L. Kuby, the civil rights lawyer representing the artists behind the sculpture. Kuby successfully argued that the artwork, while illegally placed,was not inherently contraband. The artists, who installed the piece at dawn, were fined $50 each for entering the park after hours.

Jazz As A Force For Peace & Freedom

May 4, 2015 A. D. McKenzie, www.ipsnews.net Create! Art, Baltimore, Justice, Music

Against the backdrop of civil unrest in Baltimore, Maryland, the fourth annual International Jazz Day was celebrated with events around the world and appeals for peace, unity and dialogue. “Each of us is equal. All of us inhabit this place we call home,” said American jazz legend Herbie Hancock. “We must move mountains to find solutions to our incredible challenges.” “Each of us is equal. All of us inhabit this place we call home. We must move mountains to find solutions to our incredible challenges" – American jazz legend Herbie Hancock. Although the organisers of the event held on Apr. 30 did not refer directly to the protests that have followed the funeral of Baltimore resident Freddie Gray, an African-American who died in police custody, Hancock told IPS in an exclusive interview that musicians were conscious of this and other cases.

Uruguayan Writer Eduardo Galeano Dies Age 74 In Montevideo

April 14, 2015 teleSur, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Art, Eduardo Galeano, History, Latin America, Literature

He began his career at a very early age. At 14, he was already drawing political cartoons and began his career as a journalist as an editor for the weekly Marcha and later for the daily Epoca. After the 1973 coup in Uruguay, Galeano was briefly jailed and immediately after fled to Argentina, where he founded a cultural magazine called Crisis. According to The Most Famous People website, Galeano is one of Latin America’s most cherished and admired literary figures, particularly because he raised his voice incessantly for human rights and social justice. He was a severe critic of globalization and highlighted the dehumanizing facets of globalization in the contemporary world, the website added.

4 Potent Lessons In Creative Cultural Activism From Myanmar

March 12, 2015 Nadine Bloch, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Art, Creative Resistance, Fun, Myanmar

The legacy of the brutal Burmese regime that kept glamorous challenger Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest and its tightly controlled society closed off to outside influences had seemed poised for real change. Just a month ago, as the early sunlight spread across the Bagan plain lighting up hundreds of ancient pagodas and warming up a sizable gaggle of tourists (including myself) perched high on one of the structures to witness the sunrise, it seemed clear that a new day was dawning. As part of the inaugural Beautiful Rising workshop, we had gathered in Yangon the week before to hear stories of resistance and begin to tease out the shared lessons that these events held for frontline activists.

“Zuccotti Park” Musical Shines Light On Occupy & Economic Justice

February 28, 2015 Michael Levitin, www.occupy.com Create! Art, Occupy

It's not easy writing a play about injustice in America today – much as it's not easy telling the complex, multi-layered story of the Occupy movement. But that's what writer Catherine Hurd set out to do with her new musical "Zuccotti Park," which premieres in New York City on Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Venus Adonis New York Theater Festival. For starters, when tackling something as sprawling as Occupy, what issues get addressed first? "One was obviously the mortgage crisis, where people were pushed into these shady purchase agreements by [companies like] Countrywide, when they didn't have the money to buy a house in the first place – some who didn’t even have $1,000 in savings," says Hurd, speaking last week from her home near Davis, Calif.

Bansky’s New Work In Bombed Out Palestine

February 27, 2015 Kali Holloway, www.alternet.org Resist! Art, Palestine

Street artist Banksy posted photos and a short film on his website of works he recently put up in the streets of Palestine. In the aforementioned mini-documentary, the artist offers a satirical travelogue of Gaza’s bombed-out ruins. One photograph depicts a Banksy mural of a kitten. The UK artist includes a caption: "A local man came up and said 'Please - what does this mean?' I explained I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens." The video, satirically titled “‪Make this the year YOU discover a new destination,” features onscreen text welcoming viewers to Gaza and observations such as “Locals like it so much they never leave (Because they’re not allowed to)” and “Development opportunities are everywhere (No cement has been allowed into Gaza since the bombing).”

More Than 700 UK Artists Pledge To Boycott Israel

February 19, 2015 Sarah Living, www.electronicintifada.net Resist! Art, Israel, Palestine, United Kingdom (UK)

More than 700 creative professionals living in the United Kingdom – including writers, visual artists, actors, musicians and many others – have signed up to a pledge to boycott collaboration with Israeli state-funded projects. Disclaimer: I have the privilege of being one of them. The announcement marks a significant step for the UK cultural boycott campaign. There have been many open letters and other statements of support for Palestine from UK artists, but the website and pledge bring together a huge number of creatives in one coordinated effort. Songwriter and children’s author Leon Rosselson, a signatory to the pledge, posted the video (see top of this post) of him performing the song “The Ballad of Rivka and Mohammed” as his statement. The full range of artists’ statements can be found on the pledge website.

Letter: Over 100 Artists Announce A Cultural Boycott Of Israel

February 16, 2015 Artists For Palestine, www.theguardian.com Organize! Art, BDS, Israel, Palestine

Along with more than 600 other fellow artists, we are announcing today that we will not engage in business-as-usual cultural relations with Israel. We will accept neither professional invitations to Israel, nor funding, from any institutions linked to its government. Since the summer war on Gaza, Palestinians have enjoyed no respite from Israel’s unrelenting attack on their land, their livelihood, their right to political existence. “2014,” says the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, was “one of the cruellest and deadliest in the history of the occupation.” The Palestinian catastrophe goes on. Israel’s wars are fought on the cultural front too. Its army targets Palestinian cultural institutions for attack, and prevents the free movement of cultural workers.

Youth Food Justice Zine: Call For Submissions

February 12, 2015 Youth Food Justice, www.youthfoodjusticezine.wordpress.com Organize! Art, Food and Agriculture, Media, Youth

We want to include as many voices in this zine as possible! Send us your art (drawings, lyrics, slam poetry, photos, collages, rhymes, reflections etc.) and writings around food justice work. Know of any amazing youth groups doing work around food justice? Know of someone in your community that needs to be interviewed? This is your opportunity to do some multimedia investigations and send us your results. You can also help us out by sharing this call for submissions in your social media networks and in person to friends who might be interested in submitting. The goal is to make a zine that lifts up the voices of youth food justice activists as well as intergenerational narratives around youth power within the context of the United States.

Rolling Monday Mourning Protests Begin At Mayor’s House

February 11, 2015 Rebecca Rivas, www.stlamerican.com Resist! Art, Ferguson, Michael Brown, police brutality, Politics

Carrying a coffin and tombstones with the names of those shot and killed by police, protestors led a funeral procession down Mayor Francis Slay’s street in South St. Louis at 6:45 a.m. on Monday, February 9. They left the coffin on his doorstep, rang the doorbell and began making loud mourning cries in front of his house on the 3800 block of Robert Avenue. Frederic Chopin’s Funeral March played in the background, as the group of about 25 – all dressed in black – stuck the fist-shaped tombstones in Slay’s front lawn. “This is Monday Mournings,” said Elizabeth Vega, leader of the activist group called the Artivists. “We are here because the mayor has repeatedly locked us out of City Hall. So we know need to come to his house. This is putting all people in power on notice.”

Changing Domestic Violence Culture One Quilt Square At A Time

January 26, 2015 Victoria Law, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Art, domestic violence, Florida

Two hundred years ago, quilts were an integral part of the Underground Railroad. Abolitionists sewed patterns into the squares of their quilts. They then hung the quilts in their yards, ostensibly to air them out. Runaway slaves could use the squares to identify friendly people, possible guides, preparations and directions towards freedom. This Tuesday, January 27, quilt squares will once again serve as a beacon towards freedom. In Jacksonville, Fla., the lawn outside the Duval County Courthouse will beblanketed with quilt squares. The reason: to bring attention to and protest the continued prosecution of Marissa Alexander, a black woman, mother of three and domestic violence survivor. Collected by the Monument Quilt, an ongoing project that crowd-sources stories of domestic and sexual violence, each of the 350 four-foot by four-foot squares contains a message about domestic violence or sexual assault.

Why Movements Should Care About Azealia Banks

December 28, 2014 Kate Aronoff, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Art, Hip Hop, Politics, Racism

The #BlackLivesMatter movement is quickly creating a national context whereby celebrities across industries are being forced to take sides. To date, sports stars have been the most active in their support of the movement. As it grows, more TV, movie and music personalities are likely to follow suit. Iggy Azalea’s racism, then, isn’t just in poor taste, but also beginning to fall out of step with a new mainstream of dialogue on race in the United States, one being crafted by organizers both online and in the streets. It’s a context, like that of the 60s, which gave artists like Harry Belafonte an even wider audience, and made his messages — not dissimilar from those of King and other movement leaders — resonant with increasingly broad swaths of the American public. Hip-hop artists have kept a critical consciousness on race alive in the United States, even as other genres — and a number of mainstream hip-hop artists — have drifted back towards a detachment from politics.

Art Broadens Conversation About Police Brutality

November 1, 2014 Geoff Gilbert, www.indypendent.org Resist! Art, Ferguson, New York City (NYC)

Millennial Activists United and Lost Voices, two youth activist groups operating on the ground in Ferguson. Through poetry, graphic art, film screenings and music, the participants explored connections between recurrent police brutality and larger problems of systemic racial inequality and state and economic violence that, in today’s supposedly ‘post-racial’ America, affect communities of color. The #NYCStandsWithFerguson showcase is part of a growing movement of black youth organizing according to a common experience, a process that has begun in the aftermath of the high-profile killings of unarmed black youth like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Renisha McBride. For the artists, some of whom traveled from Philadelphia and New Hampshire, and their audience of close to 70 people, art functioned as the means to articulate and engage with an experience of systematic racial profiling, mass incarceration, educational deprivation and chronic economic underinvestment.

The Art Of The Indigenous Protest Movement

October 27, 2014 Lisa Sproull, www.cultmontreal.com Resist! Art, Canada, Colonialism, indigenous

These issues are so large it can be hard to know what action to take for individuals invested in anti-oppressive politics. Sometimes it’s a matter of creating spaces for dialogue to occur among our own peers and communities. Back in August, a group of Montreal based artists have done just that by organizing a convergence called Decolonizing Street Art, which brought together artists, activists, youths and community members from Montreal and beyond to engage in making art and in conversation with a focus on decolonization. The artworks created during the convergence can be found in the Petite-Patrie neighbourhood in the general area bound by Beaubien to Jean-Talon and Parc to St-Urbain, and include works by organizers and Montrealers Cam and Zola, Swarm (Toronto), Jessica Sabogal (San Francisco), Bandit (L.A.), lmnopi (Brooklyn), Chris Bose (Kamloops) and Nigit’stil Norbert (Yellowknife).

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