At the Center for Artistic Activism, we know that progress is always possible — even in challenging times. 2024 left many people feeling burnt out and done. But 2024 is over! Bye! Welcome to 2025, when we’re as committed as ever to working hard with you to keep advancing social justice worldwide.
Our 2024 programs showed that we help activists stay motivated, artists increase their impact, faculty and students transform their work and views, and so much more. So this year, we’re doubling down on what we know matters most in this moment. Read on for a peek at how we’ll Inspire, Guide, and Innovate — and how we want you to join us.
We worked with artists, activists and investigative journalists to combat corruption in Ghana, Senegal, Guinea, Albania, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia through our Regional Creative Hubs project. Their inventive cultural campaigns rallied thousands, and their stories of working in repressive societies bring insightful lessons to the work ahead.
This year, we’ll inspire you with stories of success from around the world.
We’ve worked with thousands of change-makers in repressive regimes and we’ve seen major wins. Despair is the ultimate success of authoritarianism, and it’s easy to despair if you think winning is impossible. We’ll make sure our communities keep hoping and keep fighting by showing you just how much we can do — because of how much we’ve done.
Get involved → Keep an eye on this newsletter for opportunities to join us for inspiring programs in the months ahead. If you have a story of creative activism that you’d like to share with us, email us about it and add it to Actipedia.org, our user-generated database of global artistic activism.
Our Faculty Fellow Kristin Hughes worked with her students at Carnegie Mellon to create an impactful interactive art exhibit to encourage students to vote.
In 2025, we’ll guide activists, nonprofit leaders, and faculty through training and mentoring opportunities.
We’ll also partner with grassroots groups to run campaign accelerators to majorly increase impact and with international organizations to lead multinational in-person workshops.
We’re starting this month, when we’re going to Indonesia to train staff at Greenpeace and Amnesty International to help them tap into local culture and creativity to activate their climate campaigns.
Get Involved → If your organization or activist group wants world-class training or mentoring to plan and implement innovative, impactful campaigns, get in touch.
Our alumni at Fandom Forward worked with us to experiment (successfully!) with turning gaming influencers into voting champions.
Last year we launched our first Artistic Activism Test Kitchen. This year we’ll continue to collaborate with our alumni to experiment with what really works in protecting our freedoms and supporting the most vulnerable communities. We’ll share all we learn so that everyone can benefit.
Get Involved → Are you fighting for equity and justice in your locality and need some help dreaming up creative and innovative ways to win? We’d love to hear about it.
Do you need a motivating talk, an artistic activism workshop, a longer training course, or another program that inspires, guides, and innovates? Fill out our new Work With Us form and we can get started.
