Wondering Around Wandering Pop-Up Community Art Space Hopes to Revitalize & Celebrate Crown Heights
[CROWN HEIGHTS, NY] Brooklyn artist Mike Perry’s recent endeavor, Wondering Around Wandering (WAW) is a 7,000 sq-ft creative wonderland nestled away amidst rows of former industrial spaces lining Dean St. in Crown Heights [938 Dean St, Brooklyn, NY 11238]. Conceived and Designed by Perry, WAW doubles as both a free exhibition space and community free space for life-long […]
Occuprint & OWS: Notes on Art as a Weapon for Non-Violent Insurrection
On the evening of February 16, a group of about 20 artists, designers, muralists, art historians and activists gathered at Interference Archive in Gowanus, Brooklyn, to discuss a selection of posters that have emerged out of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The event was organized by Occuprint—a collaborative project that curates, collects, prints and distributes various posters and […]
The Art of Insurrection: An #OWS Creative Roundup
At the heart of insurrection, beneath both good and ugly, is something eerily beautiful. This beauty sits with the unbridled passion of the insurrectionaries. With such passion creativity explodes …on canvasses, in printed materials, on film, scrawled on the walls of public places, etched across ad-spaces, or braided into songs. The exponential growth of the […]
Week 2, a New Layout
So after two full weeks of recovering old files, pulling all-nighters on the phone with our hosting service, and with a whole lot of help from Nate from Vegan Corner & Matt Mitchell of InteractiveOne our databases have been restored, and we are well on our way to website that far-exceeds the reach of our […]
Calling All Designers! – New Book, Designing For Social Change, Makes Call For Submissions
Calling all community-based graphic designers! Author Andrew Shea is looking for projects to feature in his upcoming book. Have you used a graphic design to help a community in need? Do you have insights into this process? If so, visit andrewshea.com/book.html and submit your work. From the website: “This book will emphasize strategies to help […]
Speak With It Too
The following video has been circulating around activist communities in the past few weeks, it’s a brilliantly animated typographic depiction of a poem by Taylor Mali. The artist, Ronnie Bruce, made it as a class project over a year ago and later posted on his vimeo page. Without over analyzing, this video is a prime […]
50%50 Solidarity Shirts
For those visiting from SuperVegan.com Please be sure to check out our new online store here. It’s exciting news to say that after a lot of saving up money, designing, and signing contracts the Sparrow Project is proud to announce that this Spring 2010 we will be launching a line of benefit shirts, that are […]
Street Heart Benefit, an Inspirational Success
On December 3rd, The Sparrow Project joined Rawthentix.com, Special Sauce and the Guardian Brian Foundation in presenting “Street heART,” a unique benefit art auction aimed at raising awareness & much needed funds for individuals with severe brain injuries, brain cancer, and prolonged brain trauma. What started as an idea shared by Vanessa Diaz of RAW […]
The Re-Branding of Blackwater
Xe Marks The Spot by Debbie Millman In 2007, Blackwater Worldwide, the world’s largest private security company, made the wrong kind of headlines when Blackwater contractors allegedly shot and killed 17 Iraqis in a crowded square in Baghdad. This resulted in protests, congressional inquiries and the Iraqi government refusing to allow the organization to operate in […]