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Creative Activism Thursdays with the Yes Labs
Announcing the Yes Lab’s Spring 2012 lineup! Stay tuned for additions. All lectures are at 7pm at 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor, unless otherwise noted. Come meet the revolutionaries who have changed or are changing the world, and those who … Continue reading
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CAA Awarded $75,000 Grant by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations
For Immediate Release Contact: directors at artisticactivism-dot-org CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM AWARDED $75,000 GRANT BY GEORGE SOROS’S OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS Grant to expand CAA’s School for Creative Activism after Successful Inaugural Year The Democracy and Power Fund, an initiative of the … Continue reading
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“‘Political Expressionism’ & Other Fallacies of Political Art” at Carnegie Mellon
Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert are directors of the new Center for Artistic Activism. Stephen Duncombe is an Associate Professor at the Gallatin School and the Department of Media, Culture and Communications of New York, where he teaches the history … Continue reading
The CAA Announces West Coast Branch
MEDIA ALERT Contact: Steve Lambert and Stephen Duncombe directors at artistic activism.org CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM LAUNCHES WEST COAST BRANCH Larry Bogad Introduced as Founding Director The Center for Artistic Activism is proud to introduce Larry Bogad as the Founding … Continue reading
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NYU Launches “Artistic Activism” Research Group
MEDIA ALERT Contact: Stephen Duncombe sd47 at nyu.edu NYU Launches “Artistic Activism” Research Group Awarded 10K Funding For Two Years New York University awarded $10,000 to support research in Artistic Activism beginning this fall. The research group will be headed … Continue reading
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The CAA supports Beautiful Trouble. Will you?
Beautiful Trouble will be a book & web toolbox that puts the best ideas and tactics of creative action in the hands of the next generation of change-makers, connecting the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest to the popular … Continue reading
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SCA New York participants announced
The School for Creative Activism is excited to announce the participants of our 2011 workshop training in New York,NY. (this is a partial list) Amita Swadhin Amita Swadhin is dedicated to fighting interpersonal and institutional violence against young people. Her … Continue reading
School For Artistic Activism: ”Re-Teaching” at the Super G
From Lee Walton’s site: School For Artistic Activism: ”Re-Teaching” at the Super G Recently, Lee Walton and Donovan McKnight were invited to participate in a the School For Artistic Activism in Mebane, NC. Taught by Steve Lambert and Stephen Duncombe, … Continue reading
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SCA North Carolina Participants Announced
The School for Creative Activism is excited to announce the participants of our 2011 workshop training in Mebane, North Carolina. LaWana Mayfield My name is LaWana Mayfield and I reside in Charlotte, NC. I am a community activist working in … Continue reading
Q&A with the Art Newspaper
We were asked these questions by the folks at The Art Newspaper… Is political art more relevant today? Stephen: Political art, or at least artistic politics, have been around for a long time. Think about the Bible: it’s a story … Continue reading