Steve Lambert has worked alongside artists and activists in 21 countries on 6 continents helping them to effect power. Trained in the arts, he is known for large scale, public projects that engage new audiences on difficult topics through the social sciences, comedy, games, theater, and democratic participation.
Lambert is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Center for Artistic Activism, a research and training institute that helps people use their creativity and culture to effect power.
Steve Lambert has exhibited his work in a wide range of venues, from art galleries to protest marches and Times Square, both nationally and internationally, and has been featured in six documentary films, over two dozen books, and multiple museums. Lambert has presented at the United Nations several times. His research is included in a United Nations report on the impact of advertising on cultural rights and his research is the basis of a book on popular understandings of capitalism.
Over the past five years he’s focused on working with sex workers on campaigns for human rights, fighting for safe consumption spaces with people who use drugs like heroin and methamphetamine, and battling pharmaceutical corporations over pricing and access to life saving medicines.
He is an Associate Professor of New Media at SUNY Purchase College and co-author of The Art of Activism: Your All Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible.
February 16, 2024The Center for Artistic Activism has created two all-purpose toolkits. They guide activists and advocates in building and →
December 01, 2023For the last several years I have made end of year Thank You prints for donors to the →
August 16, 2023Planning your next adventure? Excited to explore new destinations? Hold up! Before booking that dream getaway, make sure →
April 29, 2023
November 01, 2022The Utopia ProjectLocation: Anacostia Community Museum, Washington D.C.Dates: November 1, 2022 – March 1, 2023Admission: Free from the →
I spent last month training in Johannesburg, South Africa, Milwaukee, and Columbus with the Center for Artistic Activism. →
August 08, 2022I spent last week training the inaugural fellows for the Center for Artistic Activism’s Unstoppable Voters program. We →
February 01, 2022
January 17, 2022I’ll be showing Capitalism Works For Me! True/False at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver, British →
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June 19, 2021Could this really be 12 years in the making? Stephen Duncombe and I started research for this book →
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