The Painting
Thirty-two years after Willem de Kooning's Woman-Ochre was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art, it was discovered in the bedroom of a deceased woman in rural New Mexico. Only the painting knows how it got there.
Explore the Series
ArtsEverywhere is a platform for artistic experimentation and exploration of the fault lines of modern society.
Long Hauling
Long Hauling is a series of essays highlighting the stories of “long COVID” survivors and community efforts to use the lessons learned from other viruses to provide care for patients during the early months of the outbreak and into the uncertainties of late-pandemic years.
Rewilding Borikén
A series of educational workshops and creative gatherings in the urban gardens and squats of Borikén presented in collaboration with local artists, scientists, farmers, healers, and community activists.
Extractivismo: Oaxaca
A series of dispatches from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, documenting the social, political, and environmental impacts of Transistmico, a planned interoceanic railway corridor to rival the Panama Canal.
Polity of Literature
This series asks how writing and reading can become the site of politics, especially for those excluded from state politics (such as prisoners, refugees, or children).
Four33: An Improvisation Podcast
Four33 is hosted and produced by Carey West and Stephen Donnelly in partnership with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI).
Artistic Practice
A collection of artistic works that show the broad range of contemporary practices in the world today.
Curse of Geography
Investigative reports on the relationship of geographic proximity/isolation to social justice, human rights, and public policy in under-reported locations around the world.
Quarantine
As COVID-19 travel restrictions in 2020 brought our international projects to a halt, ArtsEverywhere commissioned artists, writers, and activists to explore parallels and intersectionality between the varied experiences of social distancing and quarantine.
Latest Articles
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Afectos Cromáticos: Chromatic Affects
The first workshop in the Rewilding Borikén series, “Chromatic Affects” details natural dyeing techniques and how to make watercolors with local mineral pigments.
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Making the Horseshoe Crab Cello
Enter the studio of cellist Jacob Cohen as he builds an electric cello from a horseshoe crab exoskeleton and brings it to life in a performance with drummer, kora player, and vocalist Ismaila Diarra.
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The Gift of Gab
Whether improvising their careers as black women in theatre or improvising in the artwork itself, Pat Dillon Moore and Rhoma Spencer employ creativity towards dynamic practices.
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BLM = BAM
The Black Lives Matter = Black Artists Matter series centres the voices of Black artists on the territory called Canada. BLM = BAM is the aggregated weaving of their artistic responses.
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Samir Mansour’s Bookshop
In a vibrant urban neighbourhood the loss of a beloved bookshop is always hard to bear—worse when it’s destroyed by enemy missiles.
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Reading and Writing (from The Unpunished Vice)
“I’ve always associated reading and writing with sex,” Edmund White reports.
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The Roads of Yemoja: The podcast
A character-based documentary series on Cuba’s African spiritual heritage, with a focus on the water deity Yemoja (“Yemaya” in Cuba).
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Transatlantic Echoes
In this essay from “The Roads of Yemoja,” Laeïla Adjovi examines how a West African deity survived the Middle Passage from Benin and Nigeria to Cuba and became venerated on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Growing Up Among the People of the Book
A Catholic man who loves Morrissey moves to Israel to study writing. Among his neighbours he finds five remarkable people—three students, a teacher, and a rabbi—who show him the ways that young lives blossom and stray among the people of the Book.
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Graphic Scores
How do musicians, composers, and audiences use graphic scores to re-imagine their roles?
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Dvizhenie Dèla: Yulia Tsvetkova’s First Solo Exhibition
The entangled artistic and activist contexts of these drawings reveal the complex political regime under which artists are working in Russia today.
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Why I am going on a hunger strike
The starving person must have some kind of demand. My demand is simple. I ask the state to “come out and fight.”
Current Projects
Our projects are community-led creative and social justice initiatives rooted in deep, personal connections and rigorous local storytelling. We publish work from the projects as part of their related Series.
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AXS Film Fund
Film production grants for underrepresented voices
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Arte Transistmica
Arte Transistmico is a multidisciplinary collaboration between filmmakers, poets, musicians, performing and visual artists from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec who are united in defense of territory (land, sky, sea).
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Bidi Bidi Media Lab
An ArtsEverywhere-supported project run in collaboration with Rise Up & Talk to provide refugees in northern Uganda access to equipment and expertise to build the skills to become visual storytellers.
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Fay Chiang Fellowship for Artistic Journalism
ArtsEverywhere's annual fellowship award supports experimentation and innovation in artistic journalism.