WNW Members Ben Wagner and Isabel Castillo Guijarro teamed up to curate 25 New York-based LGBTQIA+ designers, illustrators, and artists to feature on LinkNYC screens throughout the month of June. The list includes some real heavy-hitters, many of whom are WNW members.
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SUBSET Is Simultaneously Challenging Dublin’s Public Art Laws & Helping Its Homeless Crisis
This Friday, SUBSET will be hosting street artists from all over Ireland, the UK, and Europe to raise awareness and funds for Ireland’s homelessness crisis. The event will simultaneously build awareness around the handcuffing regulations stifling street art in Dublin.
Read MoreFuck Your Manners: Shawna X Critiques the Western Gaze in Multimedia Exhibit
Shawna X's new exhibit "Fuck Your Manners" is a multimedia outpouring of artistic inspiration that packs both Shawna's signature palette & a well-deserved punch. "I focused on eating habits that are deemed impolite by the western gaze, but accepted in my culture.”
Read MoreLaShun Tines Spotlights The Art of Blackness
There's a growing movement for inclusive policies in a wide range of fields. But Art and Design, while typically more progressive, are not where they need to be as industries. And Advertising is lagging even further behind. It's what initially lead WNW Member and AIGA Chicago Diversity Lead LaShun Tines to start The Art of Blackness exhibition in Chicago five years ago. And it's still one of the few, if not the only, national group art shows dedicated to furthering the presence of African Americans in the fields of art, design, and advertising. One of its key goals is highlighting potential heroes for younger creatives. "Familiarity and exposure to our heroes in the art and design space is an unspoken issue affecting African American artists. As a result, the aspirations of our artists can be limited. We try to introduce our audience to African American trail-blazers to serve as inspiration and as an example that the possibilities for African American artists and designers are endless."
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