This exhibition of paintings and drawings is a tribute to Bill Ainslie as a vigorous artist, a gentle man who loved life and a charismatic
cultural activist with a crucial legacy.
En Foco provides its photographers, curators, critics &
cultural activists with forum to advocate on behalf of an inclusive cultural policy that historically has been lacking in substance.
Not exact matches
«I think it's a concerted effort that there is too much money to be made here and (they're) not going to be deterred by the structural or
cultural defences (anymore),» said Chris Young, who works
with companies on the receiving end of
activist campaigns at Credit Suisse in New York.
When it comes to young boys, parents have the final say, not the gay rights
activists who pressured the BSA to fall in line
with their agenda and have turned Scouting into yet another
cultural battleground.
Together
with parents, local
activists, and business people, we will create this
cultural shift one baby at a time.
► Luis Tejada, a community and tenants» rights
activist, is running for the second consecutive time
with what he describes as a «candidate for tenants» platform, using his work as the founder and executive director of the Mirabal Sister
Cultural and Community Center in Washington Heights.
Social
activist who thinks beyond capitalism and socialism
with a mindset aimed at building a sustainable economy based on increasing equality, and the preservation of our natural wealth and
cultural diversity...
Working
with the Education Redesign Lab, mayors of each city will create and lead «Children's Cabinets» composed of superintendents, heads of health and social services, recreation,
cultural and arts
activists, and other key community leaders.
With a strong devotion to her
cultural heritage, Brauen is an
activist in the Tibetan Freedom movement, seeking to bring attention to the suffering and the violation of...
Solas Festival encourages challenging debate
with activists, writers and thinkers from across the political,
cultural and religious spectrum.
Kobena Mercer has appropriately referred to this generation of «cinematic
activists» as being engaged
with the
cultural struggle that takes place within the «domain of image - making» through self conscious cinematic strategies.6 In each instance, the individual filmmakers and voices that make up the collectives, workshops, and groups that formed in this tumultuous period in Britain's
cultural history give shape to an image of race otherwise mediated by outside entities.
Michael Piazza's death in 2006 robbed Chicago of one of its most persistent
cultural and social
activists, an artist and teacher who believed that creativity could be a corrective and redemptive force
with the potential to ameliorate the conditions...
Cutting Copper: Indigenous Resurgent Practice, a collaborative project between grunt gallery and the Belkin Art Gallery that I co-organized
with Shelly Rosenblum, aimed to bring together a cross-disciplinary group of artists, curators, writers, educators, scholars, students and
activists to explore the embodied theory of Indigenous resurgence and
cultural representation — from the perspectives of their own disciplines and one another's.
Activists who have been working to draw attention to labor practices in connection
with the Guggenheim's planned expansion in Abu Dhabi — and who last week briefly occupied the loading dock of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice during the 2015 Biennale — said this week that their tactics seemed to be generating more overt resistance from the government of the United Arab Emirates, which oversees
cultural construction projects.
The stories of displaced and dislocated communities across the globe form the basis for Tomie Arai's collaborations
with historians,
activists and
cultural organizations.
Author,
activist and Baltimore native Ta - Nehisi Coates will be at the Baltimore Museum of Art on May 17 to talk about Afrofuturism — the intersection of African and African - American culture
with technology — and its role in today's
cultural landscape.
Their presence is balanced by seasoned
cultural purveyors, including Hungarian - Syrian artist Róza El - Hassan (INDA Gallery, Budapest), who represented Hungary in the 1997 Venice Biennale and enjoyed a major retrospective In - Between at Kunstmuseum Basel in 2012, in addition to her ongoing project Syrian Voices
with activist Shadi Al Shhadeh; veteran color theorist Siri Berg (Hionas Gallery, New York), whose 1986 seminal show Black & White 1976 - 1981 at the American Swedish Historical Museum (Philadelphia) was recently restaged at the gallery.
2008 Word: Spoken, Snug, Seen, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Parsons New School for Social Research, New York Proyecto Cívico, Centro
Cultural Tijuana, Baja, Mexico Artists and
Activists, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA University of Southern California, Los Angeles (
with Rick Lowe) In Dialogue
with Emory Douglas, San Francisco Art Institute, CA.
La Kunsthalle Mulhouse presents Sous nos yeux («Before our eyes»), a three parts project proposed by Abdellah Karroum, associate curator featuring works by Adel Abdessemed, Gabriella Ciancimino, Badr El Hammami, Pedro Gómez - Egaña and Younès Rahmoun, and an intervention by the group LMDP (l'Autre moitié du paysage) in collaboration
with social
activists and
cultural organisations.
Inspired by a diverse array of visual artists, actors, musicians, writers,
activists, and philosophers, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Joseph Beuys, Joseph Cornell, Parliament Funkadelic and Sun Ra, Johnson engages
with questions of personal, racial, and
cultural identity through his work, producing an amalgamation of historical and material references grounded in art and African - American history.
Marking Britain's historic status as a place of sanctuary for threatened European artists, this evening of films, sound - works and readings marks the creative contributions to the UK of the remarkable film - makers Robert Vas and Werner Kissling, the indomitable artist Kurt Schwitters and singular poet Ivan Blatny,
with a special appearance by film - maker and
cultural activist Andrea Luka Zimmerman.
«I enjoy working
with folks who need support in managing a wide variety of issues from self - esteem and identity concerns to the stress of dealing
with multiple roles, relationships, and life demands (as students, partners, friends, parents, new professionals, family members, community
activists, etc.) My clinical interests include multicultural and women's issues, racial / ethnic identity development (especially among biracial / multi - racial / ethnic /
cultural individuals), sexual and gender identity development, adjustment and transition issues, and building healthy relationships through assertive communication and positive self - esteem.»