The arts-centered civic activation platform For Freedoms just debuted the first billboards in their 50 State Initiative, a nationwide project aimed at increasing civic engagement in the lead-up to the 2018 midterm elections.
Lindsey Mancini is a digital editor and emerging street art scholar investigating public art's potential as a transformative societal element. She is currently an adjunct professor of contemporary art at Eastern Connecticut State University, and from 2015-2018 served as the digital content editor for the Peabody Award-winning nonprofit Art21. Her blog, the Arrow, is an editorial component of her documentary nonprofit project ArtAround, an original open-source web platform archiving the art in our shared spaces.