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Let me ask you a question...

Have you ever looked around your house and thought to yourself something like, “How can I use a rubber duck, this shoebox full of paints, and my mailbox costume from last Halloween for the betterment of my community?” — The answer to that question and so many more is something we all know and love: Artistic Activism!


My name is Tracy and I want to tell you all about the Learning Lab. It is a 6-week online course that is designed to provide you with the tools you need to effect change in your community, your nation, and the world.


You will have the opportunity to learn not only the foundational concepts of Artistic Activism, but also how to apply them to your work. This is not a studio art class but it is designed to help your studio practice be even better with the inclusion of Artistic Activism.

Don’t consider yourself to be an artist? No worries! Participation in the Learning Lab can help you discover that creative energy that lives within all of us and to see how you can apply it to your work as a changemaker.


I will be teaching the next Learning Lab and I can assure you that it will be packed with interesting insights, rich examples of Artivist projects and access to a roster of dynamic artistic activists from around the world.


As much as we love doing this work, we politely pass the proverbial hat and invite folks to pay what they will. You can even support our future work by setting up regularly scheduled automatic donations and then, to quote infomercial king Ron Poppeal, “Set it... and forget it.”

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I hope to see y’all soon!

Learn More About Tracy and Apply for Her Learning Lab!


Workshop leader Tracy Brown is an Independent Curator, Artivist (Artist Activist), community-based business Consultant, seasoned visual artist and community worker who was born and raised in San Francisco.


She received her MA in Arts Politics (Art and Public Policy) from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She participated in the takeover of the New Museum with the Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter collective. (That’s her below, in the red skirt with the colorful circles.) Tracy curated the Same Game Different Smokers exhibition, which is an exploration of the aggressively pernicious relationship the tobacco industry has had with the Black Community over the last 400+ years.

Tracy also founded and led the effort to stop US government agencies from using rubber Black men as shooting targets and created the breathtaking installation, Decommissioning Stage 4, as a creative response to the troubling issue. As a result of her work she was able to compel the world's largest purchasing body, the General Services Administration, to remove the rubber Black man from their catalog. She has also spent more than a decade documenting the memorialization and funerary practices of people of the West African Diaspora and has taught and presented photography and visual culture in remote villages and urban centers.

Today, Tracy lives in Oakland, CA, with her 88 years young father and dapper rescue bulldog named Brixton Optimus Prime Manchester. She enjoys discovering new birdsong in her environment, making good trouble in her studio, and celebrating beauty and creativity with her daily fashion choices.


As Tracy mentioned, she is teaching our next Learning Lab, which begins on May 10th! Applications close on May 3rd, though, so apply today!

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You can help keep Learning Labs going!

Can’t attend but want to help? This is the last Learning Lab we have scheduled, until we can raise enough funds for more. If you love this idea of courses on artistic activism that help hundreds of global activists and artists, please consider donating a few dollars.

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Images: (1) Yolanda M. James for the San Francisco Chronicle and (2) the New Museum Digital Archive.