Art to the Rescue!

MaxEternity.com - Visual language is the native tongue of painters and sculptors, and it is not uncommon for a visual artist to use creative communication to challenge the status quo or something seen as unjust. Generally speaking, we artists are more willing to give up what we have for something greater and long lasting that benefits the whole. And often it is the artist—visual, literary or otherwise—who sacrifices life and limb when others will not, or believe they cannot, all of which makes some artists the ideal activists.

Case in point: after authorities representing the government of Chile announced that due to “financial Irregularities” the Universidad del Mar would be [permanently] shut down at the end of 2014—a move that would affect approximately 10,000 students—an artist/activist named Francisco Tapia, aka Papas Fritas, put on display $500,000,000 of “debt paper” that he took without permission from the university and burned to ashes. From the Santiago Times, a May 21st article:  Read more.