In their MLK Day performance inspired by LaToya Ruby Frazier’s photo series, Sister Tour explored the relationship between Black women and water.
Flint water crisis
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The Politics of Adversity in Pope.L’s Flint Water Project
Flint Water Project politicizes the readymade, positing the bottles as symbols of gross negligence and misconduct on the part of city and state officials, and the dire consequences.
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Pope.L’s Conceptual Bottled Water Project Calls Attention to the Crisis in Flint
The famed social practice artist sells bottled water out of a Detroit gallery to highlight the continuing emergency.
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Pipes Stream Poetry in an Interactive Response to Flint’s Water Crisis
In the absence of a properly functioning political system, it is ever more vital for art to bestow parity.
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An Artist Draws Out America’s Buried and Fenced-off Toxic Sites
The artist Joan Linder makes exhaustive, panoramic drawings of toxic and radioactive sites in the United States, gathering a record of government indifference as she goes.
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In a City with Polluted Water, Flint’s Artists and Cultural Organizations Help Cope with the Crisis
FLINT, Mich. — When President Obama visited Flint a few weeks ago and took note of peoples’ feisty attitude, I was relieved to have my own perceptions echoed by someone I trust, who probably has spent about as much — or more accurately, as little — time in the city as I have.
