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According to her website, "Chang created a deck of thirty flash cards that translates New York state’s official Tenants’ Rights Guide into a more accessible and engaging format. The boxed set covers major topics from security deposits and subletting to paint and privacy. 10,000 decks of flash cards were sold by the tenant advocacy non-profit organization Tenants & Neighbors and all proceeds went towards their work (now sold out)." The idea of gamifying the process of raising awareness about an issue could be an effective approach in spreading a message to a wider audience, as it includes participation, art, and information.

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Candy Chang " Tenants' Rights Flash Cards

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After years of renting apartments with dubious landlords and an unclear understanding of her rights, Chang created a deck of thirty flash cards that translates New York state's official Tenants' Rights Guide into a more accessible and engaging format. The boxed set covers major topics from security deposits and subletting to paint and privacy.

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Through an exhibition displayed in Rubin Museum of the Art, Candy Chang asks visitors to write their hope and anxiety in a card and hang it on a wall. In her website, Chang calls this a "living catalogue", which allows visitors to participate and engage with the art.

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Candy Chang " A Monument for the Anxious and Hopeful

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A Monument for the Anxious and Hopeful is a living catalogue of the ways in which we relate to the uncertainty of tomorrow. Located at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, the participatory installation is a collaboration between Candy Chang and James A.Reeves that invites visitors to share personal anxieties and hopes on vellum cards and hang them on the collective wall.

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This Brooklyn-based artist places portraits of women in public places to reduce street harassment. "Fazlalizadeh recruited friends and colleagues to help make STWTS a reality, drawing her subjects in strong, even confrontational poses that are meant to “humanize” the faces of women in the public space. The portraits are accompanied by lines of text that speak to the harassers and offenders who aren’t often called out. “My name is not Baby,” one caption reads. “Women are not seeking your validation,” quips another. "

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Most people who've spent time in a major city are familiar with the uninvited cat call. Whether you have been the target or you've watched the event unfold, many of us have heard one individual or another solicit a passerby -- most often a woman -- to "give them a little smile" or "cheer up, baby."

While some may combat the unsolicited attention with a cold stare, Brooklyn-based artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh has an alternative way of addressing the problem. In a project titled " Stop Telling Women to Smile," Fazlalizadeh places portraits of women in public spaces, encouraging victims of gender-based street harassment to fight back.

The series began last year when Fazlalizadeh was finishing a mural project in Philadelphia. She'd been contemplating how to address the issue of street harassment for some time, having experienced years of daily occurrences herself. After considering the medium of oil painting -- her primary practice -- she eventually decided to channel her ideas through public art.

Fazlalizadeh recruited friends and colleagues to help make STWTS a reality, drawing her subjects in strong, even confrontational poses that are meant to "humanize" the faces of women in the public space. The portraits are accompanied by lines of text that speak to the harassers and offenders who aren't often called out. "My name is not Baby," one caption reads. "Women are not seeking your validation," quips another.

"I asked [friends] if they'd like to participate in the project, and all of them having street harassment as a consistent issue in their lives agreed and were happy to be a part of it," Fazlalizadeh explained to The Huffington Post. "For most of them, we sat and had a conversation about their experiences and what it is they'd like to say back to harassers. I used those conversations as inspiration for the text underneath their portraits."

Fazlalizadeh first posted her drawings in Philadelphia and Brooklyn, but has since created a Kickstarter campaign to help fund a broader endeavor. She wants to travel to Baltimore, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco, Miami, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Chicago to meet and draw women living in the rest of the country, using sites like Hollaback and StopStreetHarassment.org to help navigate the various communities.

Thus far she has primarily focused on the experience of women, but she's open to expanding the project to men who have encountered street harassment based on their gender or sexual orientation as well.

"As the work gained attention, I realized how many different types of people can relate to this and have stories to tell. I've had conversations with men at STWTS related events who wanted to talk about their experiences with street harassment," Fazlalizadeh recounted. "I know it happens, and it's important, and it's something I may take on in the future. Right now though, I want to focus on women -- of varying backgrounds -- to really tackle the ways in which our bodies are sexualized and mistreated in the public space."

The STWTS Kickstarter campaign has 26 days to raise the $15,000 Fazlalizadeh seeks. According to the site, a portion of the funds will be allocated to working with a filmmaker to document the project.

As for those individuals who might not believe that gender-based street harassment is a problem, Fazlalizadeh had the following to say:

"There are always those who want to tell women that their experiences are not valid or not important whenever they speak up. For me, as a black woman, this is particularly true. Wanting the basic right of feeling comfortable and safe and not sexualized as I walk out of my house is very much worth prioritizing."

"There's also the point that gender-based street harassment easily lends itself to more conspicuous issues such as rape and domestic violence," she added. "It's a matter of control over women's bodies. And it's a serious issue to address."

This story appears in Issue 67 of our weekly iPad magazine, Huffington, available Friday, Sept. 20 in the iTunes App store.

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Most people who've spent time in a major city are familiar with the uninvited cat call. Whether you have been the target or you've watched the event unfold, many of us have heard one individual or another solicit a passerby -- most often a woman -- to "give them a little smile" or "cheer up, baby."

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This is a project by artist Lisa Link, who combines Google Map with oral history. She interviewed "people who lived in New Haven about the urban renewal project in the 1950s that resulted in the dispersal of the Jewish Community in the Legion Avenue area to make way for the "connector" and what was to be America's model city." This is a good example of utilizing publicly available digital source for artistic activism.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?msa=0&ved=0CAwQmwU&ei=B5jOSrryGZXOyQSaxszqCQ&ie=UTF8&source=embed&ll=41.305568999999984%2C-72.93544300000002&spn=0.01657%2C0.028367&z=15&mid=1tFfyDSa1hP_dbIGd28QTdh9EBq0

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This cooperative defines itself as "a decentralized network of 30 artists committed to social, environmental, and political engagement.

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With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods. We believe in the transformative power of personal expression in concert with collective action.

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Draw the Line is campaign driven by The Center for Reproductive Rights to advocate for safe and legal abortion through storytelling. Anyone can anonymously share their stories through the platform and celebrities sometimes would tell the story of another woman. This is an excellent strategy to amplify the message of a story to a wider audience.

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Draw the Line is a campaign in which people from all walks of life-celebrities, activists, artists, homemakers, business people, anyone who believes in reproductive freedom-step off the sidelines and speak out.

Opponents of abortion are continuing to unleash an onslaught of restrictions across America, placing countless women at risk of harm. This despite the fact that for more than 40 years, the Supreme Court has said the Constitution protects a woman's right to make her own decisions about her health and family, including abortion.

The majority of Americans support the right to safe and legal abortion. Now's the time to show that you're one of them.

The Draw the Line campaign consists of three elements:

Personal Stories: Anyone can share their story of why reproductive rights has mattered to them.

Draw the Line Monologues: Celebrities read real women's stories about the importance of safe, legal abortion care.

Take the Challenge: Show that you agree it's time to draw the line. Share the message on social media with the hashtag #DrawTheLine.

We're asking you to stand with us against political attacks on reproductive health care and say: This is where I draw the line.

The Center for Reproductive Rights

The Center for Reproductive Rights is the only global legal advocacy organization dedicated exclusively to the advancement and protection of reproductive rights as fundamental human rights. For 25 years, we've been on the front lines of the most important battles for the future of reproductive freedom across the globe.

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Draw the Line is a campaign in which people from all walks of life-celebrities, activists, artists, homemakers, business people, anyone who believes in reproductive freedom-step off the sidelines and speak out. Opponents of abortion are continuing to unleash an onslaught of restrictions across America, placing countless women at risk of harm.

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Artists for Social Justice bring the Nasty Women Art Exhibit to Columbia

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Artists for Social Justice bring the Nasty Women Art Exhibit to Columbia

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After Hillary Clinton's defeat in the 2016 election, Artists for Social Justice was formed, which seeks to raise awareness for marginalized people through exhibits and workshops. They created this Nasty Women Art Exhibit and the money raised from art sales will be donated to planned parenthood.

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As Hillary Clinton answered a question about social security during the third presidential debate in October, Donald Trump leaned into the mic, rolled his eyes and interrupted: "Such a nasty woman."

"(That) really hit hard," says local artist Lisa Bartlett. "And I think women as a whole stood up and said, 'Yeah, that's us.' And with that comes being strong and resilient and smart and witty."

Due to this comment, as well as many other comments Trump made during his campaign, Bartlett and fellow artist Ivy Case say they believed there was no way he would win the election.

"It wasn't going to be a possibility, because how could it be?" Case says.

"There were so many instances of things happening where you thought, 'This is it. This is the game-changer,'" Bartlett says. "There is no way that someone could say these horrendous things and be our president."

After Trump won the Electoral College vote, Bartlett and Case were shocked and numb at the outcome. But two months later, they came together with 11 others to form Artists for Social Justice, a local group dedicated to raising awareness for underrepresented people through exhibits and workshops.

The first of these events is the Nasty Women Art Exhibit, which is on display at ARTlandish Gallery from Feb. 3 to March 7. The money raised from art sales will all be donated to Planned Parenthood.

Artists for Social Justice drew inspiration from the National Nasty Women Art Exhibit in New York City, which ran Jan. 12-15 and raised over $42,000 for Planned Parenthood. Sister exhibits have popped up in smaller cities throughout the U.S., and Artists for Social Justice of Columbia wanted to join the "nasty" cause.

As the original exhibit had done, Artists for Social Justice put out a call on Facebook for artists to submit their work. The responses rolled in, and over 50 pieces were donated - drawings, paintings, photographs, ceramics, gourds, stained glass, yarn and unconventional media using Scrabble pieces and googly eyes. There are depictions of vaginas, uteruses, abstract female forms and Trump-grabbing cats.

Gennie Pfannenstiel, a member of Artists for Social Justice, contributed "The Crucible Calls Me to Rise," a stained glass collage representing how recent political events, such as the election and Women's March, feel like a call for her to rise.

Tory Kassabaum, another member of Artists for Social Justice whose work will be on display at the exhibit, says she was inspired by the election to make art to help heal and inspire others. This is her first time ever sharing what she has created.

"Art can say things to people that words can't," Kassabaum says. "Art can reach you deeper."

Since the organization is so new, it is still forming into what it's meant to be. Bartlett and Case have danced around the idea of doing an event to benefit food insecurity this spring with food-related art, but now they might do something with immigration after Trump signed an executive order banning refugees from entering the U.S. They're planning to pay attention to what's pressing and be fluid about the causes they address.

"Ideas are bubbling up and we're gathering supporters," Case says. "We're not really sure what is going to take place, (but) as artists we want them to come and have a visceral experience with the art. We want to provoke thought and we want to raise money for the cause."

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Artists for Social Justice bring the Nasty Women Art Exhibit to Columbia

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As Hillary Clinton answered a question about social security during the third presidential debate in October, Donald Trump leaned into the mic, rolled his eyes and interrupted: "Such a nasty woman." "(That) really hit hard," says local artist Lisa Bartlett. "And I think women as a whole stood up and said, 'Yeah, that's us.'

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Beauty in Blood is a project by artist Jen Lewis and her partner Rob Lewis. Together they capture Jen's menstrual blood in photographs to break the taboo of menstruation and highlight gender inequality. In her statement, she wrote, "Beauty in Blood asserts that menstruation needs to be seen to help normalize the female body and to acknowledge this part of the female experience by inviting the viewer to take a closer look and reflect on their personal gut reactions to the subject of “menstruation.”
http://www.beautyinblood.com/index.html

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The Repeal Hyde Art Project was initiated by artist Megan Smith which seeks to raise "awareness and creates dialogue about the Hyde Amendment, which blocks people from using Medicaid to pay for abortions." The project seeks to achieve this goal by creating collaborative arts and shareable graphic content.
In addition to doing social media campaign, this project also encourages participation by providing a template that anyone can download and install in public places.

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Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective.
According to its website, SisterSong is "SisterSong is a Southern based, national membership organization; our purpose is to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities."

One of its flagship program is the Artists United for Reproductive Justice, which "convenes women of color artists (including trans* women) diverse in ethnicity, age, background, and artistic medium, to participate in RJ training and create collaborative artwork to advance the RJ movement. Our aim is to create easily replicable artwork that is spread throughout the nation by SisterSong and by allied groups."
https://sistersong.net/arts-culture-programs

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Monica Raye Simpson's TEDx talk "What If... We Could Couple Our Activism with Our Artistry

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Monica Raye Simpson's TEDx talk "What If... We Could Couple Our Activism with Our Artistry

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Monica Raye Simpson is the Executive Director of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, an organization that advocates for the reproductive rights of women of color. One of their programs is called Artists United for Reproductive Justice, where they gather women of color artists to participate in trainings or create collaborative arts to support their activism and advance their mission.

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Preconception Health Care Initiative PCHHC

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Aaron Koblin is a programmer and designer who often utilizes data as a foundation for his visual art. In his TED talk, he demonstrated how data can be transformed into a piece of art. In some cases, he obtained his data through crowdsourcing. Although his project is not directly related to the topic of my project, I think that his approach is an interesting one as he combines data, participation, and art in his work.

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Aaron Koblin: Visualizing ourselves ... with crowd-sourced data

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Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data -- and at times vast numbers of people -- and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the "Wilderness Downtown" video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human.