# The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/the-art-of-activism-your-all-purpose-guide-to-making-the-impossible-possible/
- Published: 2021-12-16T07:07:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**_The Art of Activism _is an all-purpose guide to artistic activism, combining 
the creative power of the arts to move us emotionally with the strategic planning
of activism necessary to bring about social change.**

With contemporary case studies and historical examples, chapters on cultural and
cognitive theory, sections on what can be learned from unlikely sources like popular
culture and marketing techniques, along with investigations into ethics and evaluation,
explorations of the creative process and the importance of utopian thinking, and
an attached workbook with over fifty exercises to practice, the co-founders of the
Center for Artistic Activism take readers step-by-step through the process of becoming,
or becoming even better, artistic activists.

![The Art of Activism, by Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert (cover)](https://wfay6x.
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## About Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert

Stephen Duncombe is an associate professor at New York University’s Gallatin School
in the department of Media, Culture and Communications and is a lifelong political
activist. He is the author and editor of six books.

Steve Lambert is a member of the New York-based artist group Free Art and Technology
Lab. He has won several awards including from Turbulence, the Creative Work Fund,
Rhizome/The New Museum, Adbusters Media Foundation, and the California Arts Council.

Duncombe and Lambert are co-founders of The Center for Artistic Activism.

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## Reviews

“Artists and Activists who want to collaborate often find they are separated by 
different languages. Steve and Steve bring them together and draw out the strengths
of both to achieve beautiful and powerful results.”
**Nathan Santry**, Actions Director,
Greenpeace USA

 * R**ead [Why activists need art to create social change](https://wagingnonviolence.org/2021/12/why-activists-need-art-to-create-social-change/)(
   Waging Nonviolence, 20 December 2021)**