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Former Marine and graduate of Adelphi’s Criminal Justice and Anthropology departments, Julian McBride BA ’17, BS ’17 is the founder of the non-profit Reflections on War (R.O.W. Initiative).

Alina Bloomgarden: Jazz for Justice Top Musicians Playing It Forward

Stephanie Lake & Cynthia Tobar “Reclaiming the Hall” 2021

An overview of the initiative and Spring 2021 projects.

Melissa Subin: Founder of Bake Back America

Marissa Gutiérrez-Vicario is the Founder and Executive Director of Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE), based out of New York City. As a committed human rights activist, artist, educator, and advocate for youth.

Argie Moutafis-Agelarakis, painter and illustrator, earned her BFA at The School of Visual Arts, her MA at Adelphi University, and is a Part-Time Faculty member at both Universities.

In this presentation, we will introduce four women, indigenous poets, who will present poetry in their native language: Nahuatl, Quechua, Zapotec and Aymara.

The Clothesline Project honors survivors as well as victims of intimate violence.

Artists play a key role in every social movement, lifting our voices, pens, brushes, and bodies to inspire, provoke, unite, and heal.

The artist will share images and text from “Borderlands,” a limited edition accordion book from the VSW Press that documents her travels, both real and virtual, at the U.S. southern border.

The presenters will briefly outline the history of the Deaf Music Project at Teachers College, and provide a summary of the music concert and conference events over the past 2 years, the recent deaf music research collaborative, and showcasing a documentary about music classes at a school for the deaf.

This presentation describes the experience of the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Ecuador in the implementation of augmented and virtual reality to facilitate art exhibitions accessible to all at any time and from any place.

Multiple risks of sensory overload make a museum visit for people with low sensory threshold and hypersensitivity difficult if not impossible. This talk will introduce the concept of sensory safety for museum inclusion and present the ways to ensure a safe visit for individuals with autism and other conditions that can be associated with sensory challenges.

The vision of this workshop is that all attendees leave with the new ways to integrate the arts into their fundraising mechanisms and programs as wells conversations with broader philanthropy about funding and fueling the arts for social change.

The lives of the indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest have become increasingly desperate due to long-standing and persistent environmental contamination in various sectors of the Amazon territory. This has led to intense social mobilization on the part of the indigenous population, who argue the State has abrogated its responsibility to protect its people from extreme environmental contamination caused by companies that extract natural resources.

The Occupy Art Project took its roots in New York, in 2020, when Eirini Linardaki invited about 28 artists to explore and invest the spaces of the Consulate General of Greece in New York, as a form of physical and dialectical occupation.

The vision of this workshop is that all attendees leave with the new ways to integrate the arts into their fundraising mechanisms and programs as wells conversations with broader philanthropy about funding and fueling the arts for social change.

In our discussion we will present how artists, curators, and their initiatives explore collaborations with community synergy and foresee the impact and life of the art projects within our society.

Artivists discuss current projects and engage the audience through thought-provoking topics that inspire action towards social change via the arts.

This project demonstrates how art is used to construct national mythologies, but also how it can confront and refute them. The project vindicates the individual struggles of women to build their own independence through artistic practices, building diverse sound stories, like themselves and their communities.

Art Jones, Award-winning Filmmaker

Dr. Cristina Zaccarini, Professor, Adelphi University

Nashon Jackson, Outreach Coordinator of Network Support Services

Presenters discuss the making of Art Jones’ documentary featuring Dr. Cristina Zaccarini’s “History, Mindfulness, & Prison Reform” Class as both artistic work & amplifier of social justice.

Dr. Cindy Maguire and Dr. Ann Holt present:

ArtsAction Group (AAG), is an international community-based arts collective of arts educators, art therapists, artist teachers, and educators focused on global partnerships with populations in conflict-affected environments.

The understanding of Growth Mindset, or the concept that our capacity to learn is not fixed, is a significant equalizer for underserved or underrepresented students. The Talisman Project was developed as a way to engage students with new technology and to provide a platform for them to access their awareness of learning.

Since 2008 MIO has organized and supported system-impacted young people through art programs inside Maine’s youth prison and in the community. MIO’s art and advocacy has changed the culture and policy of youth incarceration in Maine in tangible ways including support of youth-led advocacy which saw the population of incarcerated youth drop from over 200 in 2008 to under 20 youth in 2021.

Dr. Yolanda Sealey- Ruiz discusses the writing of two full-length books of poetry as a way to deal with pain and joy, journey to self-love, affirm her love of equity and ancestors’ legacy.

Highlights from the Fall 2021 season of Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation.

Melissa Leaym-Fernandez will share some thoughts regarding giving ourselves permission to be creative and art making on both micro and macro levels to survive/thrive after trauma, COVID, or just to get centered as people.

Artivism: Season 3 (SP 2022) Inaugural Presentation featuring Keynote Speaker CaSandra Diggs, RING Greece (Marina Sgourou, Despina Sakoulogeorga, and Garyfalia Terizaki), Yiannis Kaminis, and Charles Herman.

Recording of an event hosted February 17, 2022 by the UUA Office at the UN. Using art as advocacy in times of chaos can build community, inspire social change, and provide healing for those impacted. Art can result in profound political progress when used as a tool by those who live or work outside the political space. This webinar explored how art can be used as advocacy for climate justice. Guest artists shared their work and how they have joined the conversation and inspired others to get involved.

What impact does sustainable design practice and art education have on society? Based on Sustainable Leather and Holistic Education, 2020, the author expands the discussion to sustainable consumption and Artivism for new times, and its potential influence on society.

Media Used for Justice Equity and Respect (M.U.J.E.R.) is a program launched in 2020 by Loisaida, Inc. that provides an opportunity for emergent or pre-emergent creators, artists, media enthusiasts, makers/inventors, entrepreneurs, and creatives, to learn about independent media production, how to share personal stories, develop strategic messaging and work on script writing, video editing, film and more.

International opera and concert singer, takes us on a journey with her ongoing environmental art project “Earth Singing”. Mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Sadej’s international, eclectic career spans concert, opera, film, chamber music, oratorio, recital and voice over performance.