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1 day ago

Finally Free, Leonard Peltier Offers Intergenerational Wisdom for Resistance | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Thank you...for being able to fight for my freedom. But what's more important than that is that you continue to fight for your land and to continue to fight for your people and all people.
Social justice
SF music
fromFuncheap
2 days ago

Dandelion Dancetheatre "Parable of Belonging - Cycle 1"

Interdisciplinary performance 'Parable of Belonging' explores future life in the Bay Area through creativity and collaboration.
#portrait-photography
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago
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The African Diaspora Pictures Itself

Portrait photography across African and diaspora contexts reclaims agency, rejects Western colonial frameworks, and fosters Pan-African subjectivity and solidarity.
#art
#photography
History
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

How can you forget me': show details Filipino Americans' rich history

The exhibition showcases the lives and stories of Filipino migrants, emphasizing their humanity beyond labor history.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 week ago

Humans only! This website invites artists to animate anti-AI disclaimers for everyone to use

Artists created disclaimers against AI-generated content, showcasing diverse styles and emphasizing the human journey in art creation.
Photography
fromColossal
5 days ago

Street Artists Take On Monumental Infrastructure in 'Impossible' Photos

Joseph Ford's Impossible Street Art series combines photography and street art to engage with monumental infrastructure and energy production sites.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 weeks ago

Statues at Queen's Park to be wrapped to protect against vandalism, house speaker says | CBC News

Ontario Legislature statues will be wrapped to prevent vandalism during anticipated spring protests over post-secondary funding cuts.
World news
fromThe Walrus
3 weeks ago

Where Do the Disappeared Go? | The Walrus

Enforced disappearance is an extreme human rights violation where state security forces abduct individuals and deny responsibility, leaving victims vulnerable to torture, death, and families in anguish without information.
Arts
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 week ago

'A Division of Vision': H. Eliz Snowcarp's art for people who see things differently * Oregon ArtsWatch

H. Eliz Snowcarp's installation challenges exclusion in the art world by promoting tactile interaction and inclusivity for those with different abilities.
Fashion & style
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

Wendy Red Star Gets Her Bag

Canal Street vendors sell counterfeit luxury goods at steep discounts, operating informally despite recent policy changes decriminalizing unlicensed vending.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
3 weeks ago

Tribal sovereignty and civil rights focus of free 250th anniversary discussion on March 19 * Oregon ArtsWatch

The issue is really relevant now because the issue is being argued again in terms of things like states being able to pass rules to suppress votes that have been used before. For example, if a physical address is required to vote, many Indian lands have only recently gotten streets with addresses.
Social justice
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Iranian Artist Speaks Her Heart

The Lower East Side institution's OMA-designed, $82 million expansion debuted this week to mixed reviews, reflecting a range of opinions on its new look and functionality.
Arts
fromPortland Mercury
3 weeks ago

At Cooley Gallery, Pop Art by a Nun, Plus Portland-Made Sculptures and Textiles

Upon entry, Kent's "IF" (1965) lures the eye upward. The serigraph-a silkscreen print in fine art parlance-hangs high on the wall with a subtle vulnerability. Two orange letters hover toward the composition's top edge, as if pushing to transcend the picture plane. A feeling of possibility emerges through the conjunction and its visual form.
Portland
#contemporary-art
Arts
fromBerlin Art Link
3 weeks ago

An Interview with Igshaan Adams | Berlin Art Link

South African artist Igshaan Adams translates memory into physical matter through installations, textiles, and performances that weave spirit and remembrance into materials like cotton, plastic, and stone.
#outsider-art
Online Community Development
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 year ago

Powwows: Celebrating the culture and community of Indigenous people

The Dix Park Inter-Tribal Powwow brings together Indigenous communities from North Carolina's eight state and federally recognized tribes for cultural celebration, competition dancing, and traditional music.
Arts
from48 hills
2 weeks ago

For Iranian artist Shiva Ahmadi, 'ornamentation becomes a form of resistance' - 48 hills

Shiva Ahmadi's interdisciplinary art practice channels personal experiences of displacement, political upheaval, and immigrant anxiety into visually seductive works that address brutal global issues affecting marginalized communities.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

They found Indigenous ancestral remains on their property. They say doing the right thing shouldn't cost them | CBC News

A couple's property renovation in Ontario halted after discovering ancestral Indigenous remains, potentially costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars in unexpected expenses.
Toronto startup
fromBrooklynVegan
1 month ago

Cootie Catcher's Nolan Jakupovski tells us about 5 Toronto artists he loves

Toronto band Cootie Catcher releases their album Something We All Got on February 27 via Carpark and begins a North American tour in March including SXSW.
Portland
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

100 Posters: A photographic response to ICE takes to the walls and streets * Oregon ArtsWatch

DE-ICE:PDX distributed 100 posters across Portland featuring photojournalist images promoting family unity and providing Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition contact information for ICE detention support.
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

When a Palestinian Artist Asserts Her Own Humanity

There is a scene in "Morgenkreis | Morning Circle" (2025), a 16-mm film by Berlin-based Palestinian artist Basma al-Sharif, that unfolds at the threshold of a daycare center. A young boy clings to his father, his fists locked into the fabric of his coat, his arms wrapped tightly around him. The father gently tries to pry himself free while a daycare worker crouches nearby, attempting to distract the child and coax him inside. It is an ordinary moment, one that anyone who has ever been a child - or cared for one - recognizes instantly, as well as the gut-wrenching feeling it provokes.
Arts
fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 weeks ago

"Always Were" by Artist Opal Mae Ong

Ong's work contains a deep reverence for the otherworldly, combining the remnants of ancestral knowledge with speculative visions to form a kind of personal myth-making. The title of their latest series, "Always Were", is intentionally fragmentary suggesting a temporal and grammatical ambiguity that points to the liminal nature of Ong's figures and the time and place they inhabit.
Arts
#native-american-art
Portland
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

Rick Bartow Art Studio at Yakona Nature Preserve nearing completion * Oregon ArtsWatch

Rick Bartow's salvaged studio materials are being reconstructed into a new art studio at Yakona Nature Preserve to honor the prominent Native American artist's legacy and educational contributions.
Portland
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

Rick Bartow Art Studio at Yakona Nature Preserve nearing completion * Oregon ArtsWatch

Rick Bartow's salvaged studio materials are being reconstructed into a new art studio at Yakona Nature Preserve to honor the prominent Native American artist's legacy and educational contributions.
Arts
fromForbes
3 weeks ago

The Art Fair Zohran Mamdani Would Love: NYC's Affordable Art Fair

New York's Affordable Art Fair democratizes art ownership by making art accessible and affordable to everyone, challenging the wealthy gatekeeping that has historically dominated the art world.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
3 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way @ Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Fifty-eight contemporary Latinx artists innovate within painting traditions, challenging historical exclusion and interrogating boundaries while celebrating personal, culturally specific expressions that enrich American and contemporary art.
fromwww.pressdemocrat.com
1 month ago

As Dances With Wolves' actor Nathan Chasing Horse faced justice, these two Bay Area women built a network of survivors

When a Las Vegas jury on Jan. 30 found Nathan Chasing Horse guilty of 13 felony counts, most of them related to child sexual abuse, it sent reverberations through tribal communities across North America. One of the most powerful tremors passed through Sonoma County. I don't have the words to describe what it feels like to have this conviction come through, and to know this process started on a bench in (Santa Rosa's) Howarth Park, said Kathryn Lombera, who lives in Windsor.
US news
#repatriation
Miscellaneous
fromThe Walrus
1 month ago

How Portraiture Gives Us Permission to Stare | The Walrus

Portraiture restores Indigenous and diverse presences to a national visual history previously dominated by depopulated romantic landscapes.
Education
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

Portland Art Museum's Bold New Vision for Youth and Community Education and Engagement * Oregon ArtsWatch

Portland Art Museum transformed spaces to prioritize K–12 education with transparent, tech-enabled learning studios and youth galleries integrated visibly into the museum.
Design
fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

Between Worlds': Musah Swallah art exhibit in Chelsea shows the transformation of surface into message amNewYork

Musah Swallah uses canvas, wood, and cork to foreground material history while making saturated color the structural, inheriting and advancing modern and African painting lineages.
Music
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

"What is My Hand in This?": A powerful call for a better world * Oregon ArtsWatch

Davóne Tines and Ruckus delivered a powerful, multi-genre concert pleading for a better world, blending spirituals, opera, and rock-infused period instruments.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Real Fight for the Smithsonian

"The object of the Museum is to acquire power," announces a crusty old archaeologist in Penelope Fitzgerald's 1977 satire, The Golden Child. It isn't a goal he respects. He wants the museum where he's settled into semiretirement to genuinely devote itself to educating its visitors. Instead, he correctly charges, its curators act like a pack of Gollums, hoarding "the art and treasures of the earth" for their own self-aggrandizement and pleasure.
Books
Law
fromMission Local
2 months ago

People We Meet: The art professor at S.F.'s immigration court

Michelle Wilson sketches immigration court proceedings, protects respondents' identities in her images, and shares the artwork and captions with thousands of online followers.
fromWashingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
2 months ago

Dave Malloy's OCTET Explores the Entanglement of Technology and Humanity - Washingtonian

In a dimly lit, dusty church basement, eight people meet and place their cellphones into a wooden box. Each member of the octet struggles with a dependency upon the very tool that enables us all to enjoy a level of historically unprecedented convenience - the internet. Like the characters, audiences are called to unplug and immerse themselves in the world of Studio Theatre's production of Dave Malloy's unique a capella musical, Octet.
Digital life
US politics
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Native Activists Launch Prayer Camp Outside MN Immigration Detention Center

Native activists established a prayer camp at Fort Snelling to reclaim Bdóte, confront historic Dakota and Ho-Chunk imprisonment, and protest nearby immigration detainment.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4 weeks ago

Influential collection of Indigenous art hires former Whitney curator, will open exhibition space in New York

I've been aware of the Gochman Family Collection for a number of years through my work with artists in the collection, including during the organisation of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map. What drew me to the role was the chance to focus on the parts of curatorial work that excite me most--supporting living artists and helping them realise their visions.
Arts
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

Ford 'doesn't know what he's talking about' when it comes to basket weaving, Indigenous artist says | CBC News

Indigenous basket maker Spencer Lunham Jr. defends basket weaving as cultural, valuable, and a viable full-time livelihood, rejecting claims that it lacks market demand.
#indigenous-art
Arts
fromColossal
4 weeks ago

Mirrors, Iron, and Stone Conjure Ancestral Healing in Olayami Dabls' Detroit Museum

Olayami Dabls founded MBAD African Bead Museum to present African culture through ancestral creation and spiritual healing, rejecting European colonial perspectives in African American historical representation.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago

Sexual assault lawsuit against the estate of artist Norval Morrisseau is dismissed

In the lawsuit filed last year, Jacobson sought C$5m ($3.6m) from the estate in general, aggravated and punitive damages. He alleged Morrisseau reached into his pants and touched him on the buttocks after Morrisseau's assistant suggested he could heal Jacobson's back pain. In an affidavit filed last September, Jacobson acknowledged that Morrisseau suffered from Parkinson's disease, but claimed he was "still able to use his arms and hands in 2006, with assistance".
Miscellaneous
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Aldon Chen's exploded infographics challenge our "assumptions of sight"

In his graphic design work, Aldon transforms periodic tables and dense masses of information into maximalist pieces of design, expressing information whilst also challenging the impossibility of taking it all in. Data sprawls across screens and pages, overlapping in overloads and feedback loops, communicating more the aesthetic of information rather than its substance, playing with images we have all seen in science classes or colour palettes. These are exploded infographics.
Design
Photography
fromHigh Country News
1 month ago

The little-known photographer who documented a changing Okanogan, Washington - High Country News

Frank Matsura, a Japanese immigrant photographer in early 20th-century Okanogan County, produced personable black-and-white portraits that remain fondly remembered by local communities.
US news
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Indigenous-Led Collectives Are Keeping Minnesotan Communities Safe From ICE

Indigenous-led patrols and a community hub in Minneapolis mobilize to keep ICE off streets, supply residents, and maintain safety after recent violence.
Arts
fromCornell Chronicle
1 month ago

Renowned artist Jeffrey Gibson to give public talk March 24 | Cornell Chronicle

Jeffrey Gibson, an Indigenous artist, uses layered materials and cultural references to explore belonging, representing the U.S. at the Venice Biennale and speaking at Cornell's spring 2026 visiting artist lecture series.
#nan-goldin
Miscellaneous
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Anti-ICE protest art is popping up at the Olympics

Graffiti at Rome's CONI shows an ICE agent aiming at an Olympic ski jumper, protesting planned ICE presence at the Olympics and recent police shootings.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash

DePaul University will close its art museum on June 30 due to projected budget deficits, prompting over 2,000 faculty and students to oppose the decision.
Canada news
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 months ago

Indigenous Hub / BDP Quadrangle

A 40,000 m development in Toronto integrates health, housing, training, civic plaza, and gardens to serve and strengthen the urban Indigenous community.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Squeak Carnwath Paints Her Own Path

Squeak Carnwath rejects the idea that painting is exhausted and continues to produce expansive, vital work within the oil painting tradition.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Marigold Santos Takes Root

The only thing most people know about epiphytes, if they know about them at all, is that they're rootless. That's not quite true - they develop highly specialized root systems adapted to wherever they land. In Epiphytic Elucidations at Patel Brown Gallery, Calgary-based artist Marigold Santos takes this fact as more than a metaphor. The exhibition uses epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants without harming them - as a framework for the expansive ways diasporas form through material labor.
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fromThe Washington Post
1 month ago

In a stunning Smithsonian exhibit, artist Nick Cave uses stuff to excavate life

Nick Cave's 'Mammoth' exhibition assembles found objects, wearable sculpture, video and installation into a 700-square-foot light-table self-portrait that evokes memory and bodily performance.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

We Must Do More Than Simply Depict Our Lives

The Bronx Museum biennial spotlights representational works that center urban youth and marginalized identities, challenging mainstream narratives through sincere, everyday portrayals.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

A Somali-American Artist Speaks Out

Amid the savagery of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration - culminating in the killing of Renee Nicole MacklinGood - everyday Americans have shown incredible courage in pushing back against ICE's takeover of their cities. Joining them today are several Minnesotaart institutions that will close their doors to protest against the cruel treatment of their neighbors. You can read all about that today, plus a moving personal essay by Ifrah Mansour, a Somali-American artist based in Minnesota.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

On Being a Somali Artist in Minnesota

Minnesota’s multicultural refugee communities, communal kindness, and artistic storytelling sustain resilience and rebuild hope amid violence and loss.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Art for Dignity

As if demolishing the East Wing, gutting arts agencies, and slapping his name and face on several federal buildings weren't enough, the US president now wants to do away with a DC building known as the "Sistine Chapel of New Deal art." This week, we reported on a burgeoning campaign to save the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, which houses murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, Seymour Fogel, and other major American artists. We will continue to follow this story.
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fromThe Mercury News
2 months ago

Redwood City art installation depicts cradle of resistance

An installation juxtaposes motherhood and political imprisonment, while a nonprofit has served 10,000 free meals to Bay Area community college students.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

'It's Not All About Me': Three Portland icons make a winning show * Oregon ArtsWatch

With most of us, 90 minutes of reminiscing wouldn't make for scintillating theater. Gert Boyle, as played by Wendy Westerwelle, is the exception to that rule. The late Gert came to fame when she took the reins of Columbia Sportswear after her husband's death in 1970 and also became the "One Tough Mother," with gray hair and glasses, of its comedic '80s and '90s ad campaigns. In one, she put her son, Tim, through a carwash to test the durability of a coat.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

VizArts Monthly: Existential Journeys * Oregon ArtsWatch

February exhibitions center on universal human experiences—happiness, grief, cultural resilience, and connection to nature—expressed through contemporary, site-specific, and group exhibits.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Remembering Harvey Pratt, Roger Allers, and Robert Burleigh

Several notable artists and cultural figures recently died, including the designer of the National Native American Veterans Memorial and prominent animators, illustrators, and educators.
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