https://www.sjcinitiative.org/artforsocialjustice daily 0.75 2026-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1698182107441-SXXI7BT3MY38AEIA0PHE/Poetry+of+Resistance+2024+%283%29.jpg Art for Social Justice Contest - Poetry of Resistance 2024 (3).jpg https://www.sjcinitiative.org/artforsocialjustice/2026/5/31/there-is-no-art-contest-scheduled-for-2026-2027 monthly 0.5 2026-08-05 https://www.sjcinitiative.org/artforsocialjustice/2023/10/23/poetry-of-resistance monthly 0.5 2026-08-05 https://www.sjcinitiative.org/artforsocialjustice/2022/2/8/1wz5txejqnwdcwxk17bquqtlkvmgg2 monthly 0.5 2026-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1dd3f6b0-5366-41ba-b188-6300d316a4e9/Untitled_Artwork+%2817%29.jpg Art for Social Justice Contest - Writing Contest on Justice and Human Rights Results! We are looking for personal stories of justice, friendship, courage, patience, perseverance, kindness, forgiveness, humility, or sacrifice that help our readers question the fairness of categorizing and discriminating any social group or a person based on what they see in the media, social platforms or hear in daily conversations. SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/5d8066a6-f701-49f4-bee5-e51fa23edcc2/AI_logo_candle_yellow.jpg Art for Social Justice Contest - Writing Contest on Justice and Human Rights Results! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sjcinitiative.org/artforsocialjustice/2020/2/22/gg3ip75ggwkas7kay1dkdrwj6uemxg-37H3V monthly 0.5 2026-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1621871783848-JB8KTB7YZWX4OR9Y42QL/Gender+Injustice+%281%29.jpeg Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - Gender Injustice by Damour Yuna “I chose this photo because it is powerful on so many levels and could be interpreted in many ways which is what creates a strong work of art. I see gender inequality in this piece and the composition is beautifully depicted with the lack of interaction between both figures.” Sarah Weber https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1621871780441-62ZP0WTCXQ4U2JWMLQBZ/Behind+the+Landscape+%281%29.jpeg Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - Behind the Landscape by Giovanna Ribeiro ”Behind the Landscape is an enticing image with wonderful contrasting values of dark and light in relation to the buildings and sky. The sky appears to offer hope with radiant light cast from the sun while the neighborhood below is overshadowed. Uneven systematic opportunities within low-income communities is imperative for others to understand and I was pleased to see this picture shedding light on such an important social justice issue.” Sarah Weber, artist and judge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1621871784627-ECX43S1H4BVB1QYP3UHJ/Smashing+the+world+around+us+%281%29.jpeg Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - Smashing the World Around Us by Megan Allan “When initially viewing this photograph, I was drawn to the color, texture and cropping of the image. As I investigated it further, the concept became clearer with deterioration of ice and climate change as an evident message. I appreciate the abstraction initiated and analogy of earthy toned handheld tool and blue hues resonating as ice.” Sarah Weber, artist and judge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1621871874342-J0XJIGHA46KA8UASC5DC/11A+Sayna+Zahrai+%282%29.jpg Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - #Educationisnotacrime by Sayna Zahrai ‘I chose this piece because the screen message and symbolism of a blindfold over their eyes is very powerful. The prohibition of knowledge and education in various parts of the world speaks volumes in this work and I appreciate the artist's intent to shed light on this subject.” Sarah Weber, artist and judge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1621871874358-6ZN69KUIKH9QA90TFFZC/10B+Helena+Rosa+Amado+%282%29.png Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - "You Don't Know" by Helena Amado “The concept of this photograph is powerful regarding concealing one’s identity of gender, race and social position and how this affects societal perception. The dark mood of this piece and achromatic values enhance the message as do the words presented.” Sarah Weber, artist and judge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1621871874982-73O4NNFZPYA826UK0K23/Rallying+Cry+-+Claire+Smith+%281%29+%282%29.jpg Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - "Rallying Cry" by Claire Smith “I admire the spontaneity and viewpoint captured in this photograph. There is energy and passion exhibited which demonstrates the strength of each individual voice. The foreground figure expresses intense emotion, almost as if I can hear her yelling while the surrounding women are actively engaged, inspired and equally supportive.” Sarah Weber, artist and judge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1621900164944-BDJBYZOLMTFXXWIRI76P/The%2Bpursuit%2Bof%2Beducation.jpg Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - "The Pursuit of Education" by Mariamawit Girmay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1621871987241-73I3QHKZNK1O096J6HXG/N%C3%A3o+me+silencie%21+%281%29.png Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - "Don't Silence Me" by Daylla Cristine Santos Silva https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1621871983547-66FSHGVJ6U4S9W26N6XX/beauty+is+pain+%28but+not+your+pain%29+%281%29+%281%29.jpg Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - "Beauty is Pain (but not yours)" by Denis Marchitan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1582416437517-5CAYBUURIMRFGYQ9V2GH/Elephant2+%281%29.jpg Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - Thank you to all who participated in our Art for Social Justice Contest. We had a hard time choosing only 3 winners, among the 216 submissions we received, so we chose 5! See the finalists who received honorable mention Connie Creek, Kansas City artist who chose the winning artworks, shared these words with the participants: "I want to congratulate each student who entered the contest for finding the courage to address such difficult topics. There are many pieces that impact the viewer in meaningful ways. Although I found these five works very much equal in the artists' abilities to represent an important social issue through visual means, here are my reasons for the order.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1602723837414-IZB1FPNEKP1CB1C8KEJG/Aquecimento+Global.jpeg Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - First place: “Aquecimento Global” (Global Warming) by Altiery Silva, age 18. Colégio Estadual João Dias Guimarães, São Fransisco, Brazil. “I chose the piece Global Warming because although it is also an environmental issue it is, as the artist states so well, an issue that affects our entire planet--every single being on earth. It is a social concern that requires all societies in all countries to work together to protect our earth. The artist combined symbols representing time and nature with thought and skill to deliver the message.” Connie Creek “The social issue that inspired me was global warming. I tried to represent the chosen theme in a broad way. I used the hourglass, which represents time, as the basis of the illustration and how it affects us. I also tried to show how our actions can harm us and harm everything around us: animals like the polar bear that depends on glaciers, which at the moment are melting quickly thanks to warming. At the bottom I represented pollution, which contributes to increased warming, harming all of us.” Altiery Silva https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1602723696059-2WDG1PDJDHQJTH8225B9/6+-+Violence+against+women+in+times+of+Pandemic.jpg Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - Second place: “Não ao Silêncio” (No to Silence) by Pedro Luiz, age 16. Centro de Excelência Vitória de Santa Maria, Aracaju, Brazil. “A very close second is the piece, No to Silence. The photograph is powerfully graphic in delivering information almost too graphic for us to witness. The layout of the image adds to its emotional impact. Eliminating violence against women, as well as against many other groups, is an injustice that every country must grapple with and strive to eliminate." Connie Creek “The art of photography represents here one of the greatest social injustices: violence against women's lives. The woman is a victim of violence inside and outside the home. The proliferation of this injustice is confirmed by statistics that point to alarming rates in this period of social isolation due to the pandemic. The art of photography in the philosophy of spaces screams for equality and respect!” Pedro Luiz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1602724871276-0LXG4BQAH3NS5QY5SSEJ/image-asset.jpeg Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - 3rd Place: “Social Justice needs Change” by Manoela Moura, age 17. School of the Nations, Brasília, Brazil. “For my art for social justice piece I chose to depict a protest inspired by the Black Lives Movement that started in the United States this year due to the case of George Floyd. Nonetheless, I decided to show in my work not only people protesting against racism, but also against various injustices that are faced daily in the reality we currently live in. Social Justice is the idea that everyone deserves equal economic and political rights and opportunities, and the populations I depicted in my artwork are commonly deprived from it. Each protest board in my drawing represents a group that commonly face social injustice, due to factors such as sexism, racism, homophobia, religious discrimination, and social class inequality. Therefore, the piece shows people fighting to stop this reality, with the intent of gaining their rights and access to the same opportunities as more privileged groups.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1602726166857-1Y3KJHB0F7T6QKIHCGDU/4%2B-%2BGoodbye%2Bto%2BEducation%2B%25281%2529.jpg Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - 3rd Place: “Adeus à Educação” (Goodbye to Education) by Maria Eduarda Carvalho Silva Aragão, age 16, Ação Fraternal de Itabuna, Itabuna, Brazil. “In my work, I represented this scenario of digital exclusion and difficulty in accessing distance education in an intense and clear way. The girl on the floor represents all the students who are missing their opportunities. I chose a black woman because it is black women who find it most difficult to study in Brazil, I thought it would be representative. School supplies that are flying with their wings represent education. The girl also has wings, but they were cut off, which can be seen from the bloody scissors on the floor and their plucked feathers. This girl's wings are the opportunity, the scissors that removed her feathers, the digital divide.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1602724572250-J6J58MLYPIOHVA67H7BY/10+-+Dysphoria+-+Transgender+Rights.jpg Art for Social Justice Contest - Focus on Justice (2021) and Art for Social Justice (2020): Winners Announced! - 3rd Place: “Dysphoria” by Wesley Sterbach, age 15, Shawnee Mission West, Overland Park, Kansas, United States. “My social justice issue is transgender rights/awareness. As a trans man, people don’t understand the pain we feel on our day to day life. The feeling of imprisonment to our own bodies. My artwork shows the feelings I feel as a trans man. The pink (female) face that is splitting apart shows my outer appearance that is entangling the blue (make face) to show I feel trapped due to my dysphoria. The male face is to show the true person I am on the inside. And that my appearance does not define me and it will fall apart. In the end, I am a boy no matter my appearance. I painted this oil painting to show my struggle with self acceptance.” https://www.sjcinitiative.org/artforsocialjustice/2016/1/24/guest-speaker-series monthly 0.5 2026-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/566f03912399a37a710422fa/1569248975374-7GNSX8M4KR7HVVFZ0K9H/THE+WORLD+IS+WAKING+UP%2C+front+cover.jpg Art for Social Justice Contest - Poetry of Resistance Book Now Available! - Authors: Painting by Clara Rabbani (age 16). 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