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A group of wāhine Māori using spoken word poetry to spotlight Indigenous language revitalization and issues affecting Māori in Aotearoa. They incorporate waiata and te reo Māori to express their connection to culture.
New Zealand
Oceania
Ngā Rangatahi Toa is an organization that promotes the idea that all young people in New Zealand (“Aotearoa”) deserve the opportunity to explore their potential through education and the reawakening of cultural memory.
New Zealand
Oceania
Niñas Furia is a collective of female-identifying artists advocating for women’s rights in Guatemala, where femicide rates are some of the highest in the world.
Guatemala
C. America
A collaborative initiative formed to bring more accessibility to the arts for the residents of “ger” districts of Ulaanbaatar, densely populated areas on the outskirts of the city, the majority of which are typically comprised by rural-urban migrants and very low-income families.
Mongolia
Asia
The Oklahoma Mural Syndicate (OMS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and advocating for public art across Oklahoma, notably through initiatives like the Plaza Walls mural project in Oklahoma City.
United States
N. America
Onaman Collective is a group formed by Indigenous artists and environmentalists that focuses on arts and language revitalization.
Canada
N. America
Out North is a progressive multi-arts organization that offers a vibrant mix of contemporary visual, performing, literary, and media art, and engages in arts activism, human rights, community development, and life-long education.
United States
N. America
Transmedia nonprofit that celebrates the bold originality and creative nonconformity of LGBTQ+ communities through the presentation of provocative, overlooked, and out-of-the-box film, dance, theater, performance art, music, writing, and visual art.
United States
N. America
Known for their multidisciplinary arts practice and fashion activism, the mana wahine (women of strength) who comprise the Pacific Sisters collective, founded in Auckland in 1992, have embraced Māori, Pacific, and queer identities to weave Moana-based customary art and cultural practices into contemporary art.
New Zealand
Oceania
Pangrok Sulap is a Malaysian collective of artists, musicians and social activists who use collaborative print-making techniques to empower rural communities in Borneo and marginalized peoples through art.
Malaysia
Asia
Papunya Tula Artists (also known as Artists of the Western Desert) is a collective of Aboriginal artists from the Western Desert region of Australia. The collective is one of the most significant and influential Aboriginal art groups in Australia, playing a central role in the Western Desert art movement and often credited with bringing contemporary Indigenous Australian art into the global spotlight.
Australia
Oceania
An artist-run space where people and communities come together to talk, think, learn, and do.
Australia
Oceania
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