Black Carnation: Male Homosexuality in Interwar Latvia
In Latvia, the black carnation is much more than a flower. Kārlis Vērdiņš traces the symbol from private gay gatherings to tabloid scandals to contemporary pride.
Explore the Series
ArtsEverywhere is a platform for artistic experimentation and exploration of the fault lines of modern society.
Life & Language: the Dictionary of the Queer International
This series on queer language gathers personal stories, linguistic histories, creative writing, and cultural narratives that gesture toward the realization of an internationalist solidarity infused with the struggles, histories, desires, and exuberances of queer life and language everywhere.
The Roads of Yemoja
ArtsEverywhere proudly presents "The Roads of Yemoja," a multidisciplinary project documenting the travels of a Yoruba deity from West Africa to Cuba during the Transatlantic slave trade for the Fay Chiang Fellowship in Artistic Journalism.
Breathing
The pandemic becomes inspiration as Chinese artist Zhao Rongjie focuses her two-decade-long Breathing project on the natural world in a ground-breaking blend of documentary film, conceptual art, and field work in the mountains of southwest China.
Bidi Bidi Media Lab
An ArtsEverywhere-supported project that provides refugees living in Bidi Bidi settlement, West Nile, Uganda with equipment, expertise, and a platform to share their stories with the world.
Art-Life Rituals for Radical Tenderness
A series by artists whose work travels between physical, social, and metabolic bodies, to create intimate art-life ritual responses to the text, Co-sensing with Radical Tenderness.
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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Here Comes the Future: Learning from Zimbabwe
How will we read and write—how will we make literature—after the global economy has collapsed? Nyasha Bhobo tells us how they get it done in Zimbabwe.
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Squatch: A Big, Hairy, American Metaphor
In the redwood forests outside Santa Cruz, author Sidd Joag’s childhood curiosities are awakened when he meets cryptozoological archivist and founder of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum, Michael Rugg, who life’s work leaves him questioning the relevance of Bigfoot’s existence versus the value of celebrating intellectual curiosity.
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The Secret War in Laos: Tragedy at Tham Piew
During the early years of the U.S. Secret War in Laos, hundreds of villagers hid from the cluster bombs in a deep cave, where they carved out a community over four years until they were detected by a passing U.S. reconnaissance aircraft one afternoon in November 1968.
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Waterline / Linha D’Água
Working with indirect and non-human languages, telepathy, noise, spectrums of light, and material residues of vibrant matter that keep occult memories from others’ point of view, Rubiane creates visibility for the lines of forces and (almost) invisible energies acting in the gaps.
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Good News for African Writers
Provoked by blind spots in a recent New York Times piece about “the African literary scene,” Zimbabwean writer Audrey Simango reports on the conditions she finds on-the-ground for millennial African writers today. The conditions look good.
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On Text, Weaving, and Healing
For our last workshop in the Rewilding Borikén series, we made cordage with local cattail leaves and plantain bark––hands-on exercises that were accompanied by a selection of spoken word readings on the history of weaving and text.
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MAID in Canada: a radical response to changes in medically assisted dying
New legislation in Canada is making it easier than ever to receive medical assistance in dying, but disability activists are sounding the alarm.
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Nowhere to Hide
Vocal improvisers share their perspectives on the unique functions of voice within musical performances, being at once both vulnerable and powerful.
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Our Boxy Circle: Writing in an Emergency Shelter
Facilitating a writing group at a temporary emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness during a pandemic has its ups and downs.
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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.
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Decolonizing Natal Care in Trinidad & Tobago
Medically-managed birthing practices in Trinidad and Tobago are bound to the country’s colonial history. A contemporary resurgence of home births attended by midwives marks an important period in contemporary health care in the country.
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“A Forest Called Amazon”: The Last-Warning Campaign
Brazilian Indigenous peoples’ lives are on the line to defend our chance to have a future. They need our help now; we need to wake up. It is time to take a last stand for Indigenous rights, for the Amazon, for the climate, and for the planet.
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 that provides refugees living in Bidi Bidi settlement, West Nile, Uganda with equipment, expertise, and a platform to share their stories with the world.
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Fay Chiang Fellowship for Artistic Journalism
ArtsEverywhere's annual fellowship award supports experimentation and innovation in artistic journalism.