By Caitlin Howle || August 5, 2020 ||| Art + Activism = artivism. And these artivists are coming from The Womxn Project, a non-profit organization focused on building a feminist, community-based movement to further human rights. Their form of artivism is to display words on businesses around Rhode Island to send a message – one that the community is feeling and one that others need to hear.
The Womxn Project hosted their first artivism display piece in 2018. Their goal? To bring an immediate recognition to inaction with a “big, non-intrusive response.” Jocelyn Foye, director of The Womxn Project, says of the project’s beginnings, “We did it because we wanted to make a big splash that also invited folks who would be running the event to say a few words. It was a one-two punch. We organized it in less than 48 hours. We are a bunch of artists and know of this model [of art] happening for the last 20 years in the art world and beyond.”
