Sentences with phrase «as the activist art»

In celebration of the Guerrilla Girls» 30th anniversary as an activist art collective, several Twin Cities arts and cultural organizations are thrilled to announce the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover in 2016.

In celebration of the Guerrilla Girls» 30th anniversary as an activist art collective, the Walker and a consortium of Twin Cities arts and cultural organizations are pleased to announce the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover, a weeklong festival to be held February 29 through March 6, 2016.

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2010 — Bruce Cockburn, a celebrated Canadian folk - rock musician and activist who uses his art as a podium to draw attention to important environmental issues such as oil spills and deforestation.

The Dept. of Public Art, a self - described «committed group of artists and activists who are creating public art in Binghamton», is a clever misnomer as the city of Binghamton has no official art departmeArt, a self - described «committed group of artists and activists who are creating public art in Binghamton», is a clever misnomer as the city of Binghamton has no official art departmeart in Binghamton», is a clever misnomer as the city of Binghamton has no official art departmeart department.

Eliot Spitzer and Scott Stringer, the two Democrats locked in an increasingly personal battle over who will serve as New York City's next comptroller, brought their duel for progressive hearts and minds to The Tank, a performing arts space in Hell's Kitchen on Tuesday evening, where liberal activists sipped beers as the two men were grilled in back - to - back policy discussions.

, the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Krystal Portalatin, a co-founder of the youth empowerment group FIERCE, Ed Garcia Conde, a blogger who founded Welcome2TheBronx as well as that borough's first HIV support center, longtime transgender and Democratic Party activist Melissa Sklarz, and the legendary diva Barbara Herr.

The Senate President described the late Gbadamosi as a multi-talented economist and industrialist who was also an arts activist in his life time.

Success vs. selling out debates follow, as do takedowns of corporate exploitation, billionaire bros, mass media, wage - slave labor, the celebrity co-opting of activists, racial strife, pretentious performance art, our viral age and anything else that wanders in to the movie's crosshairs.

Redford was acknowledged for his work as actor and director, his decades long involvement in nurturing independent voices in film and the arts through the Sundance Institute, Sundance Film Festival, and overall advocacy on behalf of artists, as well as his work as an environmental activist over 40 years.

Learning Objective To give students a background into art as being a statement to reform society, to see an artists who works as an activist to make statements about the corruption in the Chinese Government.

As schools shift away from students as active participants in their own learning, museums and the arts become places where activist learning can happen.&raquAs schools shift away from students as active participants in their own learning, museums and the arts become places where activist learning can happen.&raquas active participants in their own learning, museums and the arts become places where activist learning can happen.»

According to McGregor (2012), both internationally and nationally there is a growing practice to adopt art - based teaching strategies as more and more social activists, cultural workers and educators realise their benefits to learning and their social impact.

Perhaps leaders of the NAEA push an activist agenda not because they want arts teachers to become activists themselves, but because they believe that high - sounding epithets such as «social justice» and noble visions of «equity» will advance the cause of arts education.

A lively biography of the young black playwright who achieved success and recognition for her contribution to the arts and her hard work as a civil rights activist.

Founded by long - time animal activists Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan, Our Hen House serves as a central clearinghouse for ideas and opportunities to create positive change for animals ranging from grassroots activism to advocacy through the arts.

Today, Rhizome and the New Museum jointly released the online premiere of The Art of Dissent — a new film by Laura Poitra documenting a 72 - hour collaboration in Beijing between Ai Weiwei and WikiLeaks / Tor Project activist Jacob Applebaum — as part of the New... Read More

Donald Moffett, whose paintings and prints are currently on view at the Blanton, discusses growing up in San Antonio, and his career as an artist and an activist based in New York with acclaimed novelist and art critic Jim Lewis.

Pieces ranging from early -»60s paintings incorporating casts of manhole covers to brand - new sculptures made of resin and horsehair variously bring to mind Sue Coe's activist art, Robert Rauschenberg's indexical work of the 1950s, Bruce Nauman's casts of animal bodies and Jack Pierson's early installations, as well as fiber art and African artifacts.

While Johnson's works are grounded in a dialogue with modern and contemporary art history, specifically abstraction and appropriation, they also give voice to an Afro - futurist narrative in which the artist commingles references to experimental musician Sun Ra, jazz great Miles Davis, and rap group Public Enemy, to name just a few, with various symbols including that of Sigma Pi Phi (also known as the Boulé), the first African American Greek - letter organization, and writings by civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, among others.

Building on Artists Space's history as an institution whose program has increasingly emphasized community participation and political organization (see last year's Decolonize This Place, which turned the gallery into a weekly activist meeting hub), Coop Fund foregoes traditional media like painting or sculpture in favor of video, art - science hybrids, updated junk sculpture, and institutional critique, making an implicit statement about these media that, for their associations with high - modernist seriousness, are appropriate to a politically engaged exhibition.

The exhibition, which will examine the artist's pioneering social, relational and activist approach to art, will include more than 100 artworks from the artist as well as rarely - seen materials from his archive and immersive film projections.

Campbell, who studied in Belfast and completed the master of fine art programme at Glasgow, is best known for creating fact and fiction mixed documentaries about people such as the Republican activist and politician Bernadette Devlin and the maverick carmaker John DeLorean.

A group of artists and activists known as the Chinatown Art Brigade — established in 2015 by Tomie Arai, ManSee Kong, and Betty Yu — have called out what they perceive to be racism in the current exhibition at James Cohan Gallery's Chinatown location in New York.

It features essays by BMA Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman; art historian and activist Jonathan David Katz; and critic, curator, and artist Robert Storr; as well as an interview with Waters by artist Wolfgang TillmaArt Kristen Hileman; art historian and activist Jonathan David Katz; and critic, curator, and artist Robert Storr; as well as an interview with Waters by artist Wolfgang Tillmaart historian and activist Jonathan David Katz; and critic, curator, and artist Robert Storr; as well as an interview with Waters by artist Wolfgang Tillmans.

Gaspar is the recipient of a Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award, a Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant, and a Sor Juana Woman of Achievement Award in Art and Activism from the National Museum of Mexican Art.

This past Sunday, a group of protesters, including representatives from the activist collectives Chinatown Art Brigade and Decolonize This Place as well as Chinatown residents, occupied the James Cohan Gallery's space in the neighborhood.

Ato Malinda's work as a performance artist and activist has been featured at venues like the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, the National Museum of African Art and the Smithsonian.

SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015

Of specific note is the artist talk Wynter will be giving on July 5 where she will be discussing her personal practice as well as her involvement with the recent campaign, movement and activist group, WHEREISANAMENDIETA, who have recently protested in London over the exclusion of women of colour within art history.

The group were also activists for equal representation of women in institutional art, and highlighted artist Louise Bourgeois in their «Advantages to Being a Women artist,» poster in 1988 as one line read, «Knowing your career might not pick up till after you're 80.»

About MECA (Middle East Center for the Arts) Conceived as a cultural hub for artists, activists, and scholars, MECA's diverse initiatives serve as mechanisms for discourse and collaboration.

Organized as an A-to-Z guide, it delightfully makes neighbors of such disparate aesthetics as the socially - conscious work of Morocco - based artist Yto Barrada and the pastel - toned installations of Karla Black, and the affecting paintings of Marlene Dumas and the activist art of Jimmie Durham.

He urged the Los Angeles art world to take New York as a cautionary tale and pay «close activist attention to itself».

JIMMIE DURHAM: AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD Art can be activist, and vice versa: Jimmie Durham's involvement in the American Indian Movement, downtown New York in the 1980s and identity politics in the 1990s serve as touchstones for an exhibition of more than 200 objects.

Titled ASSEMBLY, this section of the fair includes many activist - minded projects, which Adrienne Edwards say she hopes «will serve as a platform to help us imagine what is possible today through the poetics of protest by breaking down boundaries between galleries and the street, the artist and their audience and making new propositions that open up conversations about the role of art in today's society.»

2017 Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Power, Sprueth Magers, Los Angeles, CA Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Dialogues in Drawing, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA No burden as heavy, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Women Painting, Martin and Pat Fine Center for the Arts, Miami - Dade College, Miami, FL American African American, Phillips Auctioneers, London, UK Innovators and Activists: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts / New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, Traveling Exhibition 2017 - 2020: SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY; SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY; Alfred University, Alfred, NY; SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY; SUNY Plattsburg, Plattsburg, NY; Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Westchester Community College Center for the Arts, Valhalla, NY Soldary & Solitary: The Pamela J. Joyner & Alfred Gieffrida Collection, Traveling Exhibition 2017 - 2020: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC; Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL

She was one of the first artists involved in the Black Art movement in the 1980s and continues to create activist art which is shown in galleries in Britain, as well as worldwiArt movement in the 1980s and continues to create activist art which is shown in galleries in Britain, as well as worldwiart which is shown in galleries in Britain, as well as worldwide.

Titled ASSEMBLY, this section of the fair includes many activist - minded projects, which Adrienne Edwards say she hopes «will serve as a platform to help us imagine what is possible today through the poetics of protest by breaking down boundaries between galleries and the street, the artist and their audience and making new propositions that open up conversations about the role of art i

United Motion, a long - term activist project, focuses on art world distributions of labour and self - regulation as well as the conditions of its practitioners within which the issue of gender is a continuous concern.

Although Ms. Buchanan came to art as a second career, after a decade as a public health educator in East Orange, N.J., she sought out professional instruction and made many insider connections, taking classes with the abstract painter and activist Norman Lewis at the Art Students League of New York and finding another mentor in Lewis's friend Romare Beardart as a second career, after a decade as a public health educator in East Orange, N.J., she sought out professional instruction and made many insider connections, taking classes with the abstract painter and activist Norman Lewis at the Art Students League of New York and finding another mentor in Lewis's friend Romare BeardArt Students League of New York and finding another mentor in Lewis's friend Romare Bearden.

Jo Kreiter, choreographer and 2017 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artist as Activist Fellow: Racial Justice and Mass Incarceration Megan Metcalf, Art History PhD candidate, University of California, Los Angeles

The participants used her hour on the plinth in most different ways: There were activists, raising awareness for causes such as animal welfare, the environment, and human rights; creatives from painters to dancers who brought their art to the plinth; people who promoted themselves or their companies; and participants who simply did nothing.

Instead and pressingly, even with wild up and downs, flaws and all, the 2017 Whitney Biennial is the best of its kind in some time for the multiple ways it reveals how — selected as it is, without overdetermined political and aesthetic dogma, and curators remaining open to the exigencies of pleasure and the mysterious ways that art mutates but doesn't play catch - up — a show of artists simply at work, whether making expressionistic paintings, idiosyncratic functional constructions, casting the further shores of socially activist conceptualism, or documenting collapsing ecosystems or family dynamics — that artists are always addressing and channeling issues of the day.

The Dreams section presents future - oriented and activist art through political posters and graphics, the publication as conceptual art project, cinematic protest, and the legacies of utopian architecture.

One of the first exhibitions of contemporary art from Bangladesh at an American museum, the two - person show The Artist as Activist confirmed the South Asian country's place in the world as it surveyed the politcially engaged practices of artist couple Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman.

Complementing the residency and exhibitions will be panel discussions intended for the general public, university students, and faculty in which the exhibiting artists, art historians, and activists will explore topics such as attitudes toward feminist art among women of different generations; the role of artists as agents of change; and the representation of women in the contemporary art world.

«I've known Walter for at least a couple decades as an artist, writer and activist in the art world, who was very involved on the lower east side of Manhattan in the»70s and»80s when many (contemporary) artists were coming of age,» King says.

Powell is the recipient of many awards citing her lifetime of achievements in art, as a dedicated teacher, community leader and art activist.

Bearden's achievements as an artist were matched only by his energy as a scholar and arts activist at a time when art history was defined almost exclusively in terms of whiteness.

McCarthy provides a historical overview of the continuities and changes in antiwar art from the 1930s until today, while Kozloff and Rosler contextualize this broader history with their experiences as artists and activists since the 1960s.