N+T Asks: Is arts activism enough?

On May 8, 2020, we hosted our sixth N+T Asks conversation. This week Executive Director Kate Gilbert asked you, Nia Evans, Director of Boston Ujima Project, and Steve Lambert, artist and Director + Co-founder of The Center for Artistic Activism, "Is arts activism enough?" Together we examined issues around how art and artists intersect with grassroots activism, considered the significance of both individual advocacy and collective action, and imagined ways to employ art as a change-making tool during times of physical distance and after. Click to watch, read, or listen to the full conversation. And in the comments, please drop your thoughts on the art of protest, artistic labor, and if organizing for social change is, itself, an art.

Banner photo: Steve Lambert, Capitalism Works For Me! True/False, 2011, aluminum and electronics, 9 x 20 x 7 feet. Photo courtesy of the artist.