Sentences with phrase «as activist»

As an activist builder, Dana buys distressed properties for major restoration and renovation.

Sheilah has spent over 30 years as an activist, working with organizations dedicated to developing and advocating for grassroots - developed solutions to social problems, ranging from environmental issues to sustainable agriculture to public school reform to improving school food.

Would you like to share your story about what Planned Parenthood means to you as an activist, patient or supporter?

As activist investors push for board diversity and even pay equity, new pay equity laws bring severe consequences for non-compliance.

One alleged victim told us that he had apologized to her, but had done it — either coincidentally or on purpose — through an ephemeral messaging app, one of the very technologies he had advocated for as an activist.

Would you share some of your memories of Justice Brennan, and do you think that it is unfair to malign the Warren Court as activist without acknowledging that the Rehnquist Court has also been activist in its own way?

As an activist, that came easily to me.

Rick also has significant experience in representing both corporations as well as activist shareholders in proxy contests and governance disputes.

Jim Turner will give a talk on insights he has gleaned from his years as an activist attorney.

«People may try to label certain candidates as activist or conservative, but I don't think those or other labels are helpful,» he says.

As the activist himself says, «If I don't do this, who will?»

Ultimately, I wrote the guidebook I wish I had found when I started my own journey as an activist, in college, and had no idea how to get started and really have a meaningful impact on the issues I cared about.

Few people are as controversial as activist Paul Watson, coming to a TV near you on Whale Wars.

Yet he didn't see himself as an activist.

Count me as an activist.

The WWF, for example, invites people to join its «environmental campaigning community,» therefore characterizing it as an activist group.

Deriving energy from the Sun is not «free» as activist proponents of non-fossil fuel sources claim.

She spent the 15 years as an activist and movement leader working for progressive change, specialising in large - scale advocacy campaigns that disrupt politics, culture, and polluting industries.

In all honesty, I didn't care about the journalistic ethics involved here because what Gleick did was done as an individual, as an activist, and a citizen.

After receiving his MBA at the University of Lagos, Odigha pursued a political career, experience that has served him well as an activist.

If everyone agrees, what role do you play, as an activist / scientist?

Carson would not have classified herself as an activist or pioneer, yet her book launched the environmental movement.

Solomon used the same links here in a 2010 short piece that does not refer to Connolley as an activist, Green or otherwise.

At least Joe Romm makes it clear he is behaving as an activist on his blog, and at least he is an actual scientist.

I have in the past, called for Dr. Hansen's firing after his arrest episodes where he acts as an activist and protestor.

For many years he has been and remains active in marine conservation as an activist and philanthropist for the benefit of the marine environment and fishers.

Today we announced the ten artists and artist collectives selected for the 2016 Artist as Activist Fellowship — the Foundation's two - year grant program designed to support independent artists and artist collectives who tackle important social challenges through their creative practice.

The Foundation's Artist as Activist program, provides game - changing resources to artists of all disciplines who address important global challenges through their creative practice.

After a highly competitive process, in which more than 600 artists applied to the foundation's call for proposals, the inaugural cohort of Artist as Activist Fellows, as well as Travel and Research Grantees, has been selected.

He is often referred to as an activist, community organizer, and performer, among other things.

As a fixture on the SoHo - based experimental art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, Argentine - American video / television - art pioneer and conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich (born 1936) has worked in a broad variety of mediums throughout his long career, including video, painting and installation, while also establishing himself as an activist and TV producer.

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.

From his early days as a leader of the Chicano art movement and as an activist, Gamboa has sought to correct the historic imbalance of power and visibility that Chicanos and Mexican Americans have long experienced.

Gamboa first hit the Los Angeles art scene as an activist and member of the arts collective Asco, creating work to combat the invisibility, imbalance of power and injustices experienced by Chicanos and Mexican Americans.

The Broad presented visual artist and world renowned filmmaker Shirin Neshat in conversation with Christy MacLear, executive director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, in The Un-Private Collection: Artist as Activist.

aims to educate, entertain and ultimately transform our audiences into identifying as activist / artists.

His experience as an activist informs his work as an artist and as an educator.

Highlights include interviews with distinguished artists Mira Schor and Janine Antoni, several panels that examine the artist's role as activist, a selection of «Meta - Mentor» panels that tackle the business of being an artist, and a roster of innovative videos in the Media Lounge curated by Micol Hebron, Conrad Gleber, and Cindy Smith.

When she wrote those words they were closer to a manifesto than an artist's statement, foretelling the surging power of women in art, a development for which she can take a certain degree of credit as an activist.

In 1986, Jimmie Durham, a young conceptual artist who had spent much of the 1970s as an activist with the American Indian Movement, was asked by the Kenkeleba Gallery in the East Village to do a self - portrait as part of a group show.

Amit Kumar Jain reflects on The Artist as Activist, a joint exhibition by Bangladeshi artists Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman

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.

Yoko Ono has dedicated her life to promoting peace as an activist, philanthropist, and artist.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago aims to canonise the Color Field painter Howardena Pindell as an activist artist dedicated to her era's social and political causes while equally committed to the serious art of abstract painting.

Highlights of recent Broad MSU exhibitions include: Trevor Paglen: The Genres; the final installment of the exhibition series The Genres: Portraiture, Still, Life, Landscape, featuring works by social scientist, researcher, and writer Trevor Paglen; Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965 - 2015, one of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development of video art from its earliest presentation, currently on view at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Material Effects, which brought together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materials; and The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman, the first major museum exhibition to bring together a comprehensive body of work by two of Bangladeshi's foremost contemporary artists.

As an activist she's been involved in the «80s and «90s with local squatters and transnational queer, indigenous, and women's movements, incl.

As an activist, she sees the capacity of arts spaces to activate ideas and people around critical issues in ways that traditional modes of activism do not.

Robert Rauschenberg Foundation 2017 Artist as Activist Two - Year Fellowship New York, NY Deadline: December 7, 2016

Her work is also heavily influenced by her long time community engagement as an activist in the Lower East Side.

A film drawn from Smith's research on the influence of the music and life of Alice Coltrane (1937 - 2007), with recordings from signal Coltrane compositions, joins three works drawn from an area of Smith's work best described as activist response, a multiplicity of work rooted in Chicago, where Smith has lived since 2011.