In this interview, C4AA co-founder Steve Duncombe talks with Favianna Rodriguez, prolific art activist and Executive Director of CultureStrike. She shares her creative process behind the “Migration is Beautiful” butterfly, an image that has been widely adopted as a symbol of the migrant rights movement. They also discuss Rodriguez’s theory of change, which involves a strategic focus on cultural change over policy change, as she argues that policy is “the final manifestation of an idea,” that stems directly from culture.
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By Center for Artistic Activism, 330 contributed posts View all Center for Artistic Activism's posts. About the author: There is an art to every practice, activism included. It’s what distinguishes the innovative from the routine, the elegant from the mundane. One thing that can help the “art of activism” is applying an artistic aesthetic tactically, strategically, and organizationally. The practice of artistic activism has only accelerated in recent times, as savvy organizers learn to use the increasingly mediated political terrain of signs and symbols, stories and spectacles to their advantage. From Jesus’ parables to the Tea Party’s protests, working artfully makes activism effective. Until now there has not been a singular space to share, discuss and analyze tactics and strategies of artistic activism. There has not been a place where researchers across a range of disciplines can gather to share their investigations and their challenges, a place where skilled practitioners in artistic activism can share their expertise and cultivate new tactics through cross-disciplinary collaboration. The Center for Artistic Activism fills this important need. Visit CAA's website HERE. January 12th, 2019 | Tags: activist art, Art & Social Justice, art for social change, art for social transformation, Artist-Activist Interviews, artistic activism, arts and social change, arts-based social justice, Center for Artistic Activism, culture, migration, Myth, news, political art, protest art, Research Blog, social action, social activism, social benefit, social change, social commentary, social impact, social intervention, social movement, social transformation, social value of art, socially conscious art | Category: Activist Art, Art From the Heart, Center for Artistic Activism, Contributed Posts | Comments are closed By Center for Artistic Activism, 330 contributed posts View all Center for Artistic Activism's posts. About the author: There is an art to every practice, activism included. It’s what distinguishes the innovative from the routine, the elegant from the mundane. One thing that can help the “art of activism” is applying an artistic aesthetic tactically, strategically, and organizationally. The practice of artistic activism has only accelerated in recent times, as savvy organizers learn to use the increasingly mediated political terrain of signs and symbols, stories and spectacles to their advantage. From Jesus’ parables to the Tea Party’s protests, working artfully makes activism effective. Until now there has not been a singular space to share, discuss and analyze tactics and strategies of artistic activism. There has not been a place where researchers across a range of disciplines can gather to share their investigations and their challenges, a place where skilled practitioners in artistic activism can share their expertise and cultivate new tactics through cross-disciplinary collaboration. The Center for Artistic Activism fills this important need. Visit CAA's website HERE. This month we get a meal at the TGI Friday’s in New York’s Union Square. Started as a single restaurant near the Queensboro Bridge in Manhattan, TGI Friday’s now has over 900 restaurants in 61 countries. Known for kitchy decor, potato skins, and alchohol – but what makes this restaurant so popular? And what can […] April 9th, 2015 | Tags: activist art, Art & Social Justice, art for social change, art for social transformation, arts and social change, arts-based social justice, Center for Artistic Activism, culture, food, news, Patricia Jerido, podcast, political art, pop culture, pop culture salvage expeditions, protest art, social action, social activism, social benefit, social change, social commentary, social impact, social intervention, social movement, social transformation, social value of art, socially conscious art, Sound, stephen duncombe, Steve Lambert | Category: Activist Art, Art From the Heart, Center for Artistic Activism, Contributed Posts | Comments are closed By Center for Artistic Activism, 330 contributed posts View all Center for Artistic Activism's posts. About the author: There is an art to every practice, activism included. It’s what distinguishes the innovative from the routine, the elegant from the mundane. One thing that can help the “art of activism” is applying an artistic aesthetic tactically, strategically, and organizationally. The practice of artistic activism has only accelerated in recent times, as savvy organizers learn to use the increasingly mediated political terrain of signs and symbols, stories and spectacles to their advantage. From Jesus’ parables to the Tea Party’s protests, working artfully makes activism effective. Until now there has not been a singular space to share, discuss and analyze tactics and strategies of artistic activism. There has not been a place where researchers across a range of disciplines can gather to share their investigations and their challenges, a place where skilled practitioners in artistic activism can share their expertise and cultivate new tactics through cross-disciplinary collaboration. The Center for Artistic Activism fills this important need. Visit CAA's website HERE. In our first expedition we will watch the highest grossing worldwide movie of 2014, and one of the worst. Not to make fun of it (though that can not be helped) but to learn. This was the most popular movie last year and Patricia, Steve, and Steve try to parse out why people saw it […] March 12th, 2015 | Tags: activist art, Art & Social Justice, art for social change, art for social transformation, arts and social change, arts-based social justice, Center for Artistic Activism, culture, movie, news, Patricia Jerido, podcast, political art, pop culture example, pop culture salvage expeditions, protest art, social action, social activism, social benefit, social change, social commentary, social impact, social intervention, social movement, social transformation, social value of art, socially conscious art, Sound, stephen duncombe, Steve Lambert | Category: Activist Art, Art From the Heart, Center for Artistic Activism, Contributed Posts | Comments are closed By Center for Artistic Activism, 330 contributed posts View all Center for Artistic Activism's posts. About the author: There is an art to every practice, activism included. It’s what distinguishes the innovative from the routine, the elegant from the mundane. One thing that can help the “art of activism” is applying an artistic aesthetic tactically, strategically, and organizationally. The practice of artistic activism has only accelerated in recent times, as savvy organizers learn to use the increasingly mediated political terrain of signs and symbols, stories and spectacles to their advantage. From Jesus’ parables to the Tea Party’s protests, working artfully makes activism effective. Until now there has not been a singular space to share, discuss and analyze tactics and strategies of artistic activism. There has not been a place where researchers across a range of disciplines can gather to share their investigations and their challenges, a place where skilled practitioners in artistic activism can share their expertise and cultivate new tactics through cross-disciplinary collaboration. The Center for Artistic Activism fills this important need. Visit CAA's website HERE. A monthly podcast about the most popular, highest grossing, mainstream culture. How we can use all that bad stuff for good? In each episode an an academic, an activist, and an artist from the Center for Artistic Activism will help navigate through the garbage looking for treasure. Coming soon, subscribe now and don’t miss a […] Continue reading Coming Soon: The Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions March 7th, 2015 | Tags: activism, activist art, Art, Art & Social Justice, art for social change, art for social transformation, arts and social change, arts-based social justice, Center for Artistic Activism, creativity, culture, news, philosophy, podcast, political art, pop, pop culture, pop culture salvage expeditions, protest art, social action, social activism, social benefit, social change, social commentary, social impact, social intervention, social movement, social transformation, social value of art, socially conscious art | Category: Activist Art, Art From the Heart, Center for Artistic Activism, Contributed Posts | Comments are closed By Arts Alliance <br />of Southern Oregon - Blog, 4 contributed posts View all Arts Alliance <br />of Southern Oregon - Blog's posts. About the author: We hovered around the table. Brooke Nuckles Gentekos has most of the text compiled. We played a bit with numbers and a budget. It’s funny to come up with 750 characters including spaces. It actually makes some things harder to read. It’s nice to have bullets but then you have spaces. We did get the grant application in on time. We have bonded as a group. I am so pleased that art is finally becoming noticed and acknowledged as an economic driver in […] September 11th, 2014 | Tags: Art, artist, Artists, collaboration, Community, culture, Economic driver, news | Category: | Comments are closed By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1616 contributed posts View all Southern Oregon Artists Resource's posts. About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world. We found this review by Frank Bures in the February 2013 issue of The Rotarian magazine. Since it resonates with a previously published interview with anthropologist Ellen Dissanayake and helps to explain how and why the arts are so ingrained in our collective psyche, we thought readers with the same fascination might also be interested. Continue reading Book Review: A History of How People Cooperate – And Why February 7th, 2013 | Tags: adaptation, adaptive value, Art, art and cooperation, art and human development, art and human evolution, art matter, collaboration, copperation, culture, Ellen Dissanayake, evolution, human, human history, instinct, Mark Pagel, primitive culture, survival, what it means to be human, why, why art matters | Category: Art Benefiting Community, Art From the Heart, Art Matters..., Arts Advocacy, Cultural Exchange, Musings, Native & Indigenous Art, Reviews, to Artists, to Residents, to Visitors | Leave a comment By Americans for the Arts ARTSBlog, 439 contributed posts View all Americans for the Arts ARTSBlog's posts. About the author: ARTSblog is published by Americans for the Arts. Americans for the Arts' mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. We are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and to creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. View all syndicated posts from Americans for the Arts blogs under the "Art World News" tab. 
Imagine this scene: there is a band playing as you walk in. As the musicians wrap up their piece and take their seats, a large choir pops up, featuring top-notch a cappella performers. This performance segues into rousing solo performances from vocalists backed up by beautiful orchestrations. Great writers are celebrated. Poetry is recited. And […] February 5th, 2013 | Tags: Americans for the Arts, animating democracy, architecture, Art, Art Advocacy, art news, ARTS, Arts Education, ARTS USA, ARTSblog, community and the arts, culture, Emerging Leaders, international, local arts agency, national, news, Obama Arts Policy, poetry, President Obama, Private Sector | Category: Americans for the Arts, Art From the Heart, Art Matters..., Art Matters...to Everyone!, Art World News, Arts Action Fund, Arts Advocacy, ARTS USA: ARTSblog, Music, Resources, The Business of Art, to Artists | Leave a comment By Americans for the Arts ARTSBlog, 439 contributed posts View all Americans for the Arts ARTSBlog's posts. About the author: ARTSblog is published by Americans for the Arts. Americans for the Arts' mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. We are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and to creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. View all syndicated posts from Americans for the Arts blogs under the "Art World News" tab. 
The door of the Sid-Yaha, one of Timbuktu’s three 15th-century-era mosques, was supposed to open on the day of reckoning, signaling to all that the end had arrived. Instead, it has been broken down as part of a larger campaign of destruction. The perpetrators of these demolitions are the Ansar-Dine, a group of Islamic radicals […] Continue reading War Crimes: A Disdain for History & Culture in Timbuktu July 23rd, 2012 | Tags: Africa, Americans for the Arts, Art Advocacy, art news, ARTS USA, ARTSblog, culture, heritage, international, Mali, national, news, Timbuktui, Uncategorized, UNESCO | Category: Americans for the Arts, Art From the Heart, Art Matters..., Art Matters...to Everyone!, Art World News, Arts Advocacy, ARTS USA: ARTSblog, Resources, The Business of Art, to Artists | Comments are closed By Americans for the Arts ARTSBlog, 439 contributed posts View all Americans for the Arts ARTSBlog's posts. About the author: ARTSblog is published by Americans for the Arts. Americans for the Arts' mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. We are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and to creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. View all syndicated posts from Americans for the Arts blogs under the "Art World News" tab. Culture equals jobs. This was the theme of the 2012 World Cultural Economic Forum hosted by New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who is one of the most enlightened and empowered elected leaders that this nation has ever seen regarding strategically investing in his city’s cultural economy in order to move it forward. As chief counsel […] May 9th, 2012 | Tags: Americans for the Arts, Art Advocacy, art news, ARTS, arts policy, ARTS USA, Arts Watch, ARTSblog, cities, community and the arts, creative economy, creativity, cultural economy, culture, economy, employment, international, local arts, local arts agency, Louisiana, Mitch Landrieu, national, New Orleans, news, Research, Uncategorized, workforce development | Category: Americans for the Arts, Art From the Heart, Art Matters..., Art Matters...to Everyone!, Art World News, Arts Advocacy, ARTS USA: ARTSblog, Resources, The Business of Art, to Artists | Comments are closed |
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Favianna Rodriguez
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About the author: There is an art to every practice, activism included. It’s what distinguishes the innovative from the routine, the elegant from the mundane. One thing that can help the “art of activism” is applying an artistic aesthetic tactically, strategically, and organizationally. The practice of artistic activism has only accelerated in recent times, as savvy organizers learn to use the increasingly mediated political terrain of signs and symbols, stories and spectacles to their advantage. From Jesus’ parables to the Tea Party’s protests, working artfully makes activism effective. Until now there has not been a singular space to share, discuss and analyze tactics and strategies of artistic activism. There has not been a place where researchers across a range of disciplines can gather to share their investigations and their challenges, a place where skilled practitioners in artistic activism can share their expertise and cultivate new tactics through cross-disciplinary collaboration. The Center for Artistic Activism fills this important need. Visit CAA's website HERE.
In this interview, C4AA co-founder Steve Duncombe talks with Favianna Rodriguez, prolific art activist and Executive Director of CultureStrike. She shares her creative process behind the “Migration is Beautiful” butterfly, an image that has been widely adopted as a symbol of the migrant rights movement. They also discuss Rodriguez’s theory of change, which involves a strategic focus on cultural change over policy change, as she argues that policy is “the final manifestation of an idea,” that stems directly from culture.
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