Activist Artist Scholarship
$5,000
Introduction
The Activist Artist program highlights the vital role artists play in advancing human rights worldwide. While human-rights defenders come from many walks of life, creative professionals — filmmakers, writers, performers, visual artists and others — are a uniquely powerful, but sometimes underappreciated, force in raising awareness and prompting change.
Purpose
Artists communicate urgency and emotion through many forms — film, prose, theater, dance, music, painting, poetry, and drawing — and can motivate communities to understand, accept, and act on human-rights concerns. As part of its Global Citizenship work, the Lantos Foundation supports and honors artist-activists whose creative work tells...