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Flint water crisis

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As Flint’s Water Crisis Endures, the Water Remembers

by Sarah Rose Sharp January 22, 2023January 20, 2023

In their MLK Day performance inspired by LaToya Ruby Frazier’s photo series, Sister Tour explored the relationship between Black women and water.

Posted inArt

The Politics of Adversity in Pope.L’s Flint Water Project

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad October 28, 2017October 27, 2017

Flint Water Project politicizes the readymade, positing the bottles as symbols of gross negligence and misconduct on the part of city and state officials, and the dire consequences.

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Pope.L’s Conceptual Bottled Water Project Calls Attention to the Crisis in Flint

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 17, 2017October 17, 2017

The famed social practice artist sells bottled water out of a Detroit gallery to highlight the continuing emergency.

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Pipes Stream Poetry in an Interactive Response to Flint’s Water Crisis

by Jessica Holmes March 2, 2017March 3, 2017

In the absence of a properly functioning political system, it is ever more vital for art to bestow parity.

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An Artist Draws Out America’s Buried and Fenced-off Toxic Sites

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 15, 2017

The artist Joan Linder makes exhaustive, panoramic drawings of toxic and radioactive sites in the United States, gathering a record of government indifference as she goes.

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In a City with Polluted Water, Flint’s Artists and Cultural Organizations Help Cope with the Crisis

by Janet Tyson May 26, 2016May 26, 2016

FLINT, Mich. — When President Obama visited Flint a few weeks ago and took note of peoples’ feisty attitude, I was relieved to have my own perceptions echoed by someone I trust, who probably has spent about as much — or more accurately, as little — time in the city as I have.

“Monumental Concerns” Symposium With Carrie Mae Weems, Hank Willis Thomas, and More
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“Monumental Concerns” Symposium With Carrie Mae Weems, Hank Willis Thomas, and More

Scholars, artists, curators, activists, and historians will convene at Syracuse University in October to consider the role of monuments and their contested place in contemporary society.

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