https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Art en https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/10/art-activism-robert-liu-trujillo Artist Robert Liu-Trujillo speaks with PRA about this issue’s cover image, graffiti and political art, and connected global resistance. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Political Research Associates 45dfea51-e29e-47c8-b1c0-2eb8d98100b4 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/06/26/art-activism-micah-bazant Artist Micah Bazant talks to PRA about organizing and chronic illness. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 02:14:59 EDT Political Research Associates 7b449999-a773-497b-842a-034e4dcbe46c https://politicalresearch.org/2024/12/13/art-activism-dio-cramer An interview with artist Dio Cramer on resistance, art, and inspiration. Fri, 13 Dec 2024 01:35:36 EST Political Research Associates e0fcce26-980c-4b07-90aa-7fb99f9294d3 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/10/30/art-activism-gabi-hawkins An interview with Gabi Hawkins on resistance movements and inspiration. Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:48:38 EDT Political Research Associates 7393f052-b95d-4084-b084-77e246031bdf https://politicalresearch.org/2024/06/04/art-activism-vicky-shahjehan A Q&A with Fearless Collective ambassador, Vicky Shahjehan on solidarity, and the role that art plays in activism. Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:19:32 EDT Political Research Associates 56477656-aa9a-4026-8dee-03f1a64444fc https://politicalresearch.org/2024/02/14/art-activism-zoe-newton Artist Zoe Newton is also PRA’s Communications Coordinator. Zoe is a visual storyteller and creative problem solver. Their work centers around community and cultural competency. In 2021, Zoe graduated from the Sam Fox School of Art and Design at Washington… Wed, 14 Feb 2024 08:31:53 EST Political Research Associates 2c319e51-8903-48ce-8a5b-0314948f3bc2 https://politicalresearch.org/2019/05/21/art-activism-danbee-kim Danbee (Deb) Kim is a Chicago-based artist who supports social justice movements and organizations through visual storytelling and design. Originally on the path to become a social worker, Kim now focuses full-time on centering art in movement building. Getting involved in local art communities in Chicago as an adult helped her to reconnect with a creativity she’d practiced since childhood. Tue, 21 May 2019 01:21:51 EDT Gabriel Joffe dee05c52-6ae7-4f7e-a9be-b2d079bb18d6 https://politicalresearch.org/2018/08/06/art-activism-rae-senarighi Rae Senarighi is a painter, designer, and muralist based in Portland, Oregon. The front cover of the Summer 2018 issue of The Public Eye features a piece from “The Love Series.” Mon, 06 Aug 2018 11:33:19 EDT Gabriel Joffe 1f3c220d-87b2-4bda-869b-cbea74a80527 https://politicalresearch.org/2018/02/23/art-activism-karl-orozco As a Filipino-American printmaker, illustrator, comic artist, and educator, Karl Orozco’s work often grapples with the legacy of colonialism, seeking to “challenge assumed notions of race, family, migration and power.” Fri, 23 Feb 2018 06:25:57 EST Allison Puglisi ad3b775d-9e1a-4666-9fd7-bd8bad2a1ef8 https://politicalresearch.org/2017/10/31/art-activism-jennifer-luxton Our fall cover artist, Jennifer Luxton, describes herself as a “journalist by training, designer by profession, illustrator by passion, and amateur taxidermist by moonlight.” Tue, 31 Oct 2017 05:53:05 EDT Gabriel Joffe 05fe5a53-9376-434e-a94c-d0b6f4553943 https://politicalresearch.org/2017/07/31/art-activism-ashley-lukashevsky The cover artist for the summer issue of The Public Eye, Ashley Lukashevsky, was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she was involved with activism from a young age. Mon, 31 Jul 2017 05:41:25 EDT Eve Feldberg b977f654-403a-4509-a155-5477ffa591b8 https://politicalresearch.org/2017/06/16/art-activism-erik-ruin This spring’s Public Eye cover artist, Erik Ruin, is a Philadelphia-based printmaker, shadow puppeteer, and paper-cut artist whose work has been called “spell-binding” by The New York Times. Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:30:34 EDT Gabriel Joffe 5d1f14d0-93d2-4daf-9d5e-08bea5994347 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/04/11/warpaint-what-does-george-w-bush-see-his-portraits-courage There’s an explosion on nearly every other page of George W. Bush’s Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors. Mortar attacks. IEDs. Suicide bombs strapped to children. Bush wrote short essays to accompany each of his… Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:20:37 EDT Sarah Sentilles c0ef6c52-9189-48d6-a224-9d6c6706bf74 https://politicalresearch.org/2017/04/03/art-activism-nansi-guevara Nansi Guevara, a visual artist and activist based in South Texas, has been creating art for as long as she can remember. Mon, 03 Apr 2017 02:02:56 EDT Gabriel Joffe d7f8729a-c9c9-4275-9c1a-cf9f3b00ae05 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/03/02/can-art-save-us-fundamentalism In his new book, religious studies scholar Philip S. Francis uses personal stories from young evangelicals to explore how one’s experiences with art can dramatically reorient Christian beliefs and practices. Thu, 02 Mar 2017 04:57:26 EST Philip S. Francis c4ba7ec7-afd1-4487-8d22-6a9da315ea1d https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/04/wikileaks-october-surprise-spirit-dinners-conspiracy-goes-mainstream Conspiracists have long believed that Hillary Clinton is a member of a Satanic cult. Fri, 04 Nov 2016 03:35:59 EDT Carmen Celestini 5eb84bb1-c78b-4d70-a8a4-b1a117828fd6 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/27/pair-exhibitions-demonstrate-how-biases-color-history-jerusalem For many, Jerusalem has always been less a window on the past than a kind of magic mirror on the present. Thu, 27 Oct 2016 02:42:44 EDT Gordon Haber 203fa24f-8b11-4e70-89ff-d079c47a7ce9 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/08/11/i-met-god-shes-black-exhibit-makes-black-female-body-temple The moment I entered the Black Woman is God exhibit in San Francisco’s SOMArts gallery, I knew I was on sacred ground. I found myself treading gingerly, trying not to disturb the spirits of ancestors that seemed to repose in… Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:06:43 EDT Anita Little da16f093-f338-4182-90c6-74a4927c99eb https://politicalresearch.org/2016/02/19/art-activism-joshua-mcphee Joshua MacPhee, our Winter 2016 cover artist, didn’t go to a traditional art school to learn his craft, but rather what he calls “the punk rock school of art.” Fri, 19 Feb 2016 03:18:48 EST Kathryn Joyce 030929a7-fb0b-4a43-84be-75cabcd97e65 https://politicalresearch.org/2015/11/19/art-activism-amelia-spinney Spinney’s art appears on the cover of the Fall 2015 edition of The Public Eye magazine. Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:23:11 EST Political Research Associates 49236705-f2a9-40ed-9894-257e7ec6e338 https://politicalresearch.org/2015/06/20/art-activism-asad-badat Asad Badat, the artist behind the cover of the Summer 2015 issue, says he’s always seen himself as “a passionate observer who has romantic eyes for beauty.” Recently, though, he’s departed from this observatory position. Sat, 20 Jun 2015 01:04:44 EDT Aviva Galpert 4af37064-3d23-49c8-a454-169a1d3b628d https://politicalresearch.org/2015/04/20/art-activism-helen-zughaib Helen Zughaib came to her longtime home in Washington, D.C., by way of many other nations. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, she also lived in Iraq, Kuwait, Greece and France, before coming to the United States to earn her BFA at… Mon, 20 Apr 2015 01:09:26 EDT Kathryn Joyce be7a2b3f-8807-4cba-b5d6-6fc59fefdb99 https://politicalresearch.org/2015/01/20/art-activism-meredith-stern When Meredith Stern (whose artwork is also featured on the front cover) chooses where to live, she embraces the “act locally, think globally” ethos. That’s why, once she put down roots in Providence, Rhode Island, the printmaker and collage artist began naturally forming collaborations with fellow artists for social justice. Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:11:27 EST Political Research Associates d462f916-3e51-4c7c-8866-519f76120693 https://politicalresearch.org/2014/11/19/art-activism-david-bacon For more than 30 years, David Bacon has been writing about and photographing people who are displaced by poverty in Mexico and choose to cross into the United States in search of a better life. Wed, 19 Nov 2014 03:26:33 EST Political Research Associates 044bfc7b-d717-42a7-86e0-5b2a9bc8c333 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/10/02/whats-wrong-virgin-mary-depicted-barbie-doll Catholic and Hindu leaders—two religions that normally appreciate religious statues and images—have decried “Barbie: The Plastic Religion,” a new exhibit by Argentinian artists Pool Paolini and Marianela Perelli, featuring 33 Barbie and Ken dolls dressed as saints, prophets, and deities… Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:12:01 EDT Joseph Laycock 826514ab-7b61-4dac-ad0d-bf9ec61c237f