Guide to art activism in 2010

Featured Site

• Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). Great site for one of the most important public art centers in the world. Learn about the hundreds of community murals SPARC has created, preserved, and recorded.

Key Sites

• African American Music and Culture Archive. Fine resource on jazz, blues and other AfAm cultural/political forms.
• Art in the Public Interest. Fine resource on community art movement(s).
• Art and Revolution. Organization dedicated to overcoming the blandness of most demonstrations through puppetry and other imaginative forms of art for change.
• Black Cultural Studies Web Site. Compiled by Tim Haslett, Nimmy Abiaka, and Paula Lee. Includes information about Manthia Diawara, Arthur Jafa, bell hooks, Paul Gilroy, and a host of other black cultural critics.
• Black Film Center.
• Brown Pride.
• Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia. 101 ways to subvert mainstream culture.
• Chicana/o murals in LA. with a brief history.
• Cyber Vato:CyberSpace Conquered CyberBarrio. A performance space from Chicano political artistGuillermo Gomez-Pena and friends.
• Cybergrrl Webstation. Lookout keyboard cowboys, Cybergrrls are here!
• Day With(out) Art project (Visual AIDS). Art world response to AIDS deathtoll.
• Drawing the Line at Place: Environmental Justice Project by Mat Schwarzman. Fine article on an art project linking toxic waste and the old plantation system in Louisiana.
• EnviroArts page. Visual, verbal, and dramatic environmental arts.
• Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia. An excellent, extensive resource.
• Guerrilla Art. Great, imaginative site that makes Nike sweat, among other things.
• Frameline. National organization supporting gay and lesbian filmmaking.
• Guerilla Girls. Feminist conscience of the art world.
• High Performance. Online art and social action magazine.
• Labor movement cartoons. Carol Simpson Design Works.
• Mirror Images: a woman-positive art gallery.
• Movies, Race and Ethnicity. Fine resource from University of California, Berkeley library.
• Names Project AIDS Quilt.
• ThePraxis Group. Radical performance art.
• Rebel Art. Dual language English and German site.
• Re-Visions Magazine. Women Talk Back.
• Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). Vital public art resource, particularly on murals in Southern California.
• South Asian Literature Chai Room. Interesting site on Asian and Asian American literature from University of California, Berkeley.
• Third World Newsreel.
• Women Artists Archive. Fine resource from Sonoma State University.
• World's Women On-Line. International women's art site.

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