Artolution

Artolution We strengthen communities through the power of art. Our projects bring together children, youth, families, artists, educators and community groups.

By facilitating locally-led, collaborative art-making programs around the world, we focus on creating space for communities experiencing crisis to shape their own narrative. Artolution is a community-based public art network that seeks to ignite positive social change through creative, participatory and collaborative art making. We facilitate projects around the world that connect diverse peoples

in order to address common social objectives. Our founding objective is to address critical issues related to armed conflict, trauma and social marginalization by cultivating sustainable global initiatives that promote reconciliation, healing and community empowerment.

05/25/2026

A walkthrough from earlier this year at Wesleyan University, where refugee-made artworks created across Bangladesh, Uganda, Jordan, Ukraine, Colombia, and beyond were installed throughout the campus.

Each piece carries stories of memory, displacement, resilience, and home, created through collaborative art-making with refugee artists, youth, and communities around the world.

More from this traveling exhibition soon.

05/08/2026

In Azraq Refugee Camp, students explored a simple but powerful question: what does belonging mean to you?

Through the Promise Project in Jordan, implemented with GIZ, students from different classes and backgrounds came together to share ideas, listen to each other, and translate their perspectives into a collective mural.

Each student began with their own drawing. Through a collaborative process led by Artolution teaching artists and educators, these individual ideas were brought together into one piece that reflects their voices, values, and sense of community.

This video captures that process. The conversations, the teamwork, and the moments where students begin to see themselves as part of something shared.

Created through the Promise Project in Jordan with Artolution Jordan

We’re part of a session at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford this week: “From Insight to Action: Advancing Youth Mental He...
04/20/2026

We’re part of a session at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford this week: “From Insight to Action: Advancing Youth Mental Health Solutions.”

Our co-founder Dr. Max Frieder will be speaking about Artolution’s work supporting youth mental health through collaborative art-making with communities affected by crisis.

The session brings together voices from across the Youth Mental Wellbeing Co-Lab to share what’s working, where gaps remain, and how we move forward together.

April 23 | 3:00–4:30 PM
Oxford Union

Register: https://lnkd.in/ekx9FyiC

World Art Day 2026A moment someone notices what you made.A moment you decide to come back.A moment something shifts.Thes...
04/15/2026

World Art Day 2026

A moment someone notices what you made.
A moment you decide to come back.
A moment something shifts.

These moments may seem small, but they stay with people.

Across refugee camps, classrooms, and community spaces, Artolution’s teaching artists create space for that to happen every day. Through collaborative art making, people find focus, connection, and a way to express what they carry.

Here are a few moments from across our work.

03/24/2026

Inside the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, these sessions have become part of the weekly rhythm.

Children gathering in classrooms and shared spaces. Sitting together on the floor. Learning how to draw step by step with local artists from their own community.

Across the camps, boys and girls join these sessions regularly, building basic skills like shapes, shading, and composition, but also finding a space that feels calm, consistent, and their own.

The focus is simple.
Create a space where young people can express themselves, feel a sense of stability, and connect with others through art.

A new community mural, “Little Dreamers,” has been completed in the village of Oleksandrivka in the Mykolaiv region of U...
03/16/2026

A new community mural, “Little Dreamers,” has been completed in the village of Oleksandrivka in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine by .

Over the course of a week, local children and community members worked together to create a 150-meter mural on the wall of the village Culture House. Despite constant rain during the week, the children kept coming back to paint what they wanted to leave for the future. Adults joined as well, adding their own ideas and colors to the wall.

The project ended with a small celebration for the village, with tea, treats, and activities for the children.

This is the 8th mural in Ukraine created using the Artolution collaborative methodology, bringing youth voices and community creativity into public space.

Artwork led by

Thank you to and for supporting this project and helping bring these young dreams to life.

At Hittin School in Ajloun, Jordan, a group of students came together to design a mural that captures what connection, i...
03/16/2026

At Hittin School in Ajloun, Jordan, a group of students came together to design a mural that captures what connection, identity, and future dreams look like in their own words and images.

They chose to fill their design with portraits, symbolic gestures, and shared values, creating a bold piece that represents who they are and how they want to grow together. Each part of the mural carries meaning: a gesture of support, a sign of equality, a reminder that every student has something to contribute.

Throughout the project, students opened up some for the first time about the pressures they face and the hopes they hold onto. With encouragement from our teaching artists, , and .sa and one another, they turned reflection into creativity and built something lasting.

The mural now lives in their school as a shared achievement and an everyday reminder that inclusion can be built one idea, and one color, at a time.

On International Women’s Day, we are celebrating women like Luba Winnie.Luba is a South Sudanese refugee living in Bidib...
03/08/2026

On International Women’s Day, we are celebrating women like Luba Winnie.

Luba is a South Sudanese refugee living in Bidibidi settlement in Uganda. She first joined Artolution as a participant. Today, she helps lead murals and creative workshops in her community, supports sewing and handicraft activities, and trains participants to use Virtual Bridges as they connect with others beyond the settlement.

“When we painted, it sparked a hope for happiness and the beginning of a new life again.”

Luba is an artist, a trainer, and a mother helping build a stronger future in her community.

Art Through Crisis is now on view at Wesleyan University.This exhibition brings together collaborative works created acr...
02/18/2026

Art Through Crisis is now on view at Wesleyan University.

This exhibition brings together collaborative works created across refugee camps and crisis-affected communities around the world. Each piece carries stories of resistance, memory, and resilience shaped by artists living through crisis.

Join us for the opening reception and keynote by Dr. Max Frieder on February 18 at 4:30pm in Fisk Hall 201, hosted by the Fries Center for Global Studies.

On view February 18 to May 6
Wesleyan University
Middletown, Connecticut

More details in the flyer.

In the South Bronx, young people from the Community Justice Center recently came together to reimagine their computer la...
01/27/2026

In the South Bronx, young people from the Community Justice Center recently came together to reimagine their computer lab, starting with the walls.

With guidance from artist , they explored what technology meant to them: opportunity, expression, future, connection. They sketched ideas, shared stories, and co-created a mural that transformed the space into something their own.

This project was about giving the room a voice. A space that says: we belong here. We’re ready.

Partners: the Center for Justice innovation (CJI), New York City housing Authority (NYCHA) and Karena Bravo.



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