CULTURE IS POWER PROJECT
The Culture is Power Project empowers and collaborates with local artists and cultural partners to redistribute cultural power by uplifting or reshaping narratives and stories of the local community. This project honors the creative power of local artists and empowers artists to create art connected to a social issue in their community. For this project we are collaborating with Drive Michigan Forward, a coalition of immigrant rights advocates fighting to restore driver licenses for all Michiganders, regardless of immigration status. By engaging with creatives to advocate for a social issue in their community through their artwork, we are providing a platform for real, on-the-ground voices to be represented. We hope that by creating this project at the intersection of art and politics, we will reach communities in a way that touches their heart by allowing them to see themselves in the works of art to motivate them to action. Finally, we are grateful to have partnered with community-rooted cultural organizations like Inside Southwest Detroit and Garage Cultural.
CREATIVE PIECES
FUND OUR FUTURE ART SERIES
In partnership with Amplifier this series was created calling for our futures to be intentionally invested in! in times of uncertainty, art serves as a bridge that can unite movements with shared values in ways other mediums cannot; it is a catalyst for shaping change. It gives us symbols to gather around to activate our folks. With this series, we uplift our shared values and point to the future we need for future generations. These art pieces are meant to spark the imaginations of our communities and affirm that we know what is best for us because we have lived experience. We hope you use this artwork for community events, digital outreach, protests, rallies, and more!
ARTWORK BY @NICOLASLAMPERT + @AMPLIFIERART
Image description: beige background with the city of Detroit as the backdrop and farmland. A woman with a soft smirk looking confidant holding a gardening hoe and wearing a black tee-shirt with the words “hope” and a button on the shirt that reads “fund our futures” The bottom part of the poster reading “gardening hope together”.
ARTWORK BY @NICOLASLAMPERT + @AMPLIFIERART
Image description: medium blue and baby blue background with an urban farm as the backdrop. The words “we need all of us” on the middle-upper part of the poster surrounded by a black solid rectangle. A button in the middle of the poster that reads “fund our futures”. A woman and young child with long hair holding a potted deep green plant.
ARTWORK BY @NICOLASLAMPERT + @AMPLIFIERART
Image description: gray and white background with a street map as the backdrop. The upper part of the poster reading “our people have the solutions” surrounded by a solid black rectangle. A man standing wearing a black sweater and cap with a great smile and holding a potted green plant in rich brown soil. On the lower right a button that reads “fund our futures”.
Civic Engagment Cultural Project Art Series
In our Civic Engagement Cultural Project artists from across Michigan came together to uplift The People’s agenda as a way to provide a vision for the upcoming 2020 election. From now until Election Day artists across the state are uplifting important social & political issues such as migrant rights, climate change, racial & gender justice, and voting.
ARTWORK BY @JOJORDDAN
Image description: a collage of diverse people holding signs that say our votes matter, we demand justice + change, Black Lives Matter, and liberty and justice for all. A “I voted” sticker, a mailing envelope, a blue mask, a newspaper, and white and black dots as the background. the left upper corner reading “vote for a better future” and the lower right side reading “elections 2020 vote and be heard” in white font.
ARTWORK BY @JOJORDDAN
Image description: medium blue and baby blue background with an urban farm as the backdrop. The words “we need all of us” on the middle-upper part of the poster surrounded by a black solid rectangle. A button in the middle of the poster that reads “fund our futures”. A woman and young child with long hair holding a potted deep green plant.
ART BY @SHORIN_NICK
Image description: a collage representing different human basic needs to survive and a hand in the middle holding a voting ballot with text on the bottom reading “your community is depending on your vote”.
ART BY @SHORIN_NICK
Image description: a comic book illustration of a globe falling on a hand and turning into a voting ballot with red, white. and blue lightning bolts surrounding the hand. poster test includes “the power to change the world” on the top and “is in your hands” on the bottom.
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