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Author Archives: Art in Odd Places

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Dandelions-We Don’t Die, We Multiply! #RISEOFTHEDANDELIONS and the voices of the Freedom Harvest Collective, Part 1.

By Matthew Morowitz “Dandelion Wishes.” Photo courtesy of Ashley Blakeney. As mentioned in the previous feature on Patrisse Cullors, March 9, 2013 saw the premier of “Freedom Harvest Presents: #RISEOFTHEDANDELIONS,” a performance/installation created in response to the excessive force and brutality by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD). Presented at the Pieter Performance Space in […]

The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space: Activist History Tours of the East Village

by Evalynn Rosado In the East Village near the corner of Avenue C and 10th Street is a museum that calls itself “a living archive of urban activism” — The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS). On its walls hangs documentation of defining moments of activist protests and information on the many transformations of the […]