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A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest Art
Harvard University's Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB have created a free guide for making protest art while navigating intellectual property law.
Protest Art
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The Ebbs and Flows of Resistance in the Art World
After a moment of incredible unity around the #J20 Art Strike, the art community's protest movements have fragmented as the reality of everyday life under Trump has set in.
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Signs of Creative Resistance at the 2018 Women’s March
Over a million people around the world protested the one-year anniversary of the Trump administration, and many showed up with great signs, the greatest in fact, these are definitely some very very great signs.
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Activists Project Messages of Resistance and Solidarity on Border Wall Prototypes
"We're really here to point that out that this is not an appropriate use of American technology," said a member of Artcolectivist, a binational group involved in the light graffiti-project.
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A Lending Library for Handmade Protest Banners
Artist Aram Han Sifuentes has created a roving archive of fabric protest signs, which anyone can check out at no charge.
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Artists Stage Protest Performances in Trump Tower
Some two dozen performers took over the building's public garden on June 14 to protest President Trump's plan to eliminate the NEA.
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On Memorial Day, an Artist Burns and Buries a Confederate Flag
At Detroit's N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, John Sims conducted a two-hour-long Confederate flag funeral.
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Anti-Trump Protests Are Boosting Art Supply Sales
A new report by the market research company NPD Group shows how the Women's Marches directly increased sales of sign-making material.
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Woody Guthrie and His Fascist-Killing Guitar Projected on Oklahoma State Capitol
On a Monday night in February, an image of Woody Guthrie was projected on the façade of the Oklahoma State Capitol, his guitar reading: "How Did It Come to This."
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The Women’s March: The First 28 Hours
A drawing report from Day 1 of the resistance movement.
Art
An Artist Seeks Women's Used Underwear for Sewing into Quilts
Send her your old drawers, and Coralina Meyer will sew them into one of her "Cunt Quilts," the first of which will fly at this weekend's Women's March on Washington.
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Artists Channel Lady Liberty in Signs, Costumes, and Torches for the Women’s Marches
We Make America, a group formed after the election, has been crafting art inspired by the Statue of Liberty for the January 21 marches in Washington and New York.