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Omaha Picks: Art and Activism

A list of titles that highlight the intersection of art and political activism.

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  • Acts of Resistance

    the Power of Art to Create a Better World

    Massie-Blomfield, Amber,
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.m 2025 — 701.03 Massie-B 2025
  • Art in the After-culture

    Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy

    Davis, Ben, 1979-
    BookChicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2022. — 709.052 Davis 2022
  • Funny Weather

    Art in An Emergency

    Laing, Olivia,
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2020] — 701 Laing 2020
  • A Land With a People

    Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism : a Collection of Personal Stories, History, Poetry, and Art

    BookNew York : Monthly Review Press, [2021] — 320.54095694 Land 2021
  • BookPasadena, CA : Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art (MOTHA) ; Munich, Germany : Hirmer Publishers, [2024] — 306.768 Trans 2024
  • Crip Kinship

    the Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid

    Kafai, Shayda,
    BookVancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2021] — 704.087 Kafai 2021
  • Graphic NovelNew York : Seven Stories Press, [2024] — GRAPHIC NOVEL 305.409 Woman
  • The Mother Artist

    Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity

    Ricketts, Catherine,
    BookMinneapolis, MN : Broadleaf Books, [2024] — 700.852 Ricketts 2024
  • When Harry Met Pablo

    Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art

    Algeo, Matthew,
    BookChicago : Chicago Review Press, [2024] — 973.918 Algeo 2024
  • Acts of Creation

    on Art and Motherhood

    Judah, Hettie,
    BookLondon ; New York : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2024. — 704.9424 Judah 2024
  • Glorious Lessons

    John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution

    Brookhiser, Richard,
    BookNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2024] — B Trumbull Brookhis 2024
  • The Moment

    Changemakers on Why and How They Joined the Fight for Social Justice

    BookAthens : NewSouth Books, an imprint of the University of Georgia Press, [2022] — 303.372 Moment 2022
  • The Free World

    Art and Thought in the Cold War

    Menand, Louis,
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. — 306.0973 Menand 2021
  • Art of Protest

    Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Revolution

    Nichols, De,
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2021. — 701.03 Nichols 2021
  • Stitching Stolen Lives

    Amplifying Voices, Empowering Youth & Building Empathy Through Quilts : the Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project

    Trail, Sara, 1995-
    BookLafayette, CA : C&T Publishing, [2021] — 746.0973 Trail 2021
  • Dangerous Melodies

    Classical Music in America From the Great War Through the Cold War

    Rosenberg, Jonathan, 1958-
    BookNew York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020] — 780.973 Rosenber 2020
  • Marking Time

    Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

    Fleetwood, Nicole R.,
    BookCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020. — 704.08 Fleetwoo 2020