Social Justice

In a recent review in Elle Decor, art critic Kimberly Drew surveys the first-of-its-kind period room that presents an imagined Black home in New York City. "The exercise coined by [Saidiya Hartman, Ph.D.] is the work of overlaying historical gaps with imaginative narrative building," Drew writes. "This practice stems from the reality that the everyday lives of Black people have often been underdocumented or plainly ignored."

A recent episode of When We Fight, We Win!: The Podcast, centers on "Sam Jacobs and a network of donors who use lessons and inspiration from social movements to reclaim a new narrative around philanthropy."

Instead of fundraising for its own budget, this year's Laundromat Project’s annual “People-Powered Challenge” campaign "will 'pay it forward,' distributing $50,000 to support the work of other orgs led by people of color," states a recent article in Hyperallergic.

3Arts, the Chicago-based nonprofit grantmaking organization, recently expanded funding in response to increasingly stringent times for women artists, artists of color, and Deaf and disabled artists.

This is the fifth session of a series of presentations held in 2021 by art.coop as a "study into-action cohort."

This session took place on Friday, October 1.

The Center for Story-Based Strategy (CSS) recently published a piece by Lenina Nadal with a question for artists, rebels, activists, nonprofit workers, propagandists, creators, makers, innovators, practitioners, organizers and trainers: "How did you wake up your radical imagination today?"

This is the fourth session of a series of presentations held in 2021 by art.coop as a "study into-action cohort."

This is the third session of a series of presentations held in 2021 by art.coop as a "study into-action cohort."

This is the second session of a series of presentations held in 2021 by art.coop as a "study into-action cohort."

This is the first session of a series of presentations held in 2021 by art.coop as a "study into-action cohort."

This session took place on Friday, September 3, hosted by Rad Pereira with a performance by Xenia Rubinos.