Tag: democracy

• Midwest Student Voting Summit!

  I will be speaking along with representatives from the Center for Artistic Activism at this year’s Midwest Student Voting Summit hosted by the Campus Vote Project and the Fair Elections Center on Friday March 24th. Rachel Gita Karp, the Unstoppable Voters Program Director, and Krystal Barrett, the Programs Coordinator, and I will be speaking about…

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  March 22, 2023

  Political Art, Presentations, Projects, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

  Art & Creative Democracy, Campus Vote Project, Center for Artistic Activism, democracy, Fair Elections Center, St. Norbert College, Voting, Wisconsin

• Democracy Exhibition at the Overture Center for the Arts!

  The Democracy Exhibition is on display through Sunday, June 4 in the Playhouse Gallery at the Overture Center for the Arts! President Abraham Lincoln described democracy in his Gettysburg Address as a form of “…government of the people, by the people, for the people…” An ideal democratic system would listen to and serve all its…

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  March 14, 2023

  Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art

  Art in a Democratic Society, Contemporary Art, democracy, Overture Center for the Arts, Political Art, Wisconsin

• Art & Democracy Fall 2022

  This fall, I organized a series of exhibitions and events at St. Norbert College associated with an arts-based service-learning course called Art & Creative Democracy. The exhibitions and events were open to the campus and the community. The students in the Art & Creative Democracy course also participated in artistic activism workshops led by the…

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  November 17, 2022

  Collaborations, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations, Projects, Publication, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

  Aram Han Sifuentes, Art & Creative Democracy, Art Education, art exhibition, Bun Stout, Center for Artistic Activism, Chto Delat?, Contemporary Art, democracy, Jonas Staal, Moki Tantoco, Oliver Ressler, Service Learning, Social Practice, Socially Engaged Art, U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC)

• Art in a Democratic Society Lecture Series

  As a part of my ART 285: Art in a Democratic Society course at St. Norbert College, I am hosting a lecture series that was supported by the Faculty Mini-Grant Program through the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, and Public Understanding. The schedule is as follows: Tuesday, September 8th – Center for Creative Citizenship…

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  September 1, 2020

  Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

  Amanda Lovelee, Art in a Democratic Society, Center for Creative Citizenship, Contemporary Art, democracy, Girl Child Art Foundation, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Norman Miller Center for Peace Justice & Public Understanding, Social Practice

• To Share – Greenham Women Against Cruise Missiles

  To Share – A Statement The piece “To Share” considers the ethical implications of the act of sharing between the real and the virtual world. The ease of replication and transfer in digital forms creates a crisis within the culture of ownership. This ethical confrontation has existed in the notions of the public and private…

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  May 28, 2013

  Books and Zines, Contemporary Art, Downloads, Political Art, Projects, Publication, Releases

  archival materials, Arms Race, artifacts, Cold War, democracy, Greenhan Women Against Cruise Missiles, history of nuclear weapons, libraries, net-art, nuclear artifacts, nuclear disarmament, Nuclear Disarmament Policy, Nuclear Weapons, PDF, peoples movements for the abolition of nuclear weapons, Political artwork, Post-Internet, Protest, Virtual Verbs

• Where is Ai Weiwei?

  Ai Weiwei in Tiananmen Square in 2009 (the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre) On January 11, 2011 the studios of Ai Weiwei were demolished by the Chinese government. He was arrested April 3, 2011 and has not been heard from since. Here is an excerpt from a recent article in the Global Post:…

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  April 7, 2011

  Contemporary Art, Political Art

  activism, Ai Weiwei, art in the public sphere, China, Contemporary Art, democracy, Political Art, political detention