LumenARRT! is a project of the Artists Rapid Response Team (ARRT!). We work through the Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA), a members’ organization that advocates for artists and furthers the work of progressive non-profits in the state of Maine. Our video projections create a visual voice for these organizations and like electronic graffiti, bring awareness to issues of social, political and environmental justice.
Some still images from recent projections:
At Congress Square Park, Portland, our recent projection, Detention Center in a Truck, called attention to the new ICE office and holding cell at One City Center and asked for an end to profiling and deportations of people of color in Maine. #EVICTICE #ABOLISHICE
NEWS FLASH!: Here are links to coverage of the most recent LUMENARRT! projections, about ICE detention center in Portland
Channel 8 (brief but good bites from interview):
Same story on Fox 23 WPFO and CBS Channel 13 WGME:
https://wgme.com/news/local/activists-use-art-to-protest-ice-in-portland
https://fox23maine.com/news/local/activists-use-art-to-protest-ice-in-portland
Channel 6 story from the morning of:
For the 2020 annual NAACP Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at the Holiday Inn in Portland, the Artists’ Rapid Response Team! and LumenARRT! teamed up to provide images and enliven the event!
