Steve Lambert has worked alongside artists and activists in 15 countries on 4 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 science of comedy, games, theater, and democratic participation.
Lambert is the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Artistic Activism, a research and training institute to help activists be more creative and artists to be more effective.
As an artist, Lambert’s work has been shown everywhere from art galleries to protest marches to Times Square, both nationally and internationally, featured in four documentary films, and over two dozen books, and collected by museums and The Library of Congress. 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 the basis of a book on popular understandings of capitalism.
He is Associate Professor of New Media at SUNY Purchase College.
March 31, 2018THE MIX on Australian TV did a short segment on my work. You can watch the video on →
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March 11, 2018I’ll be speaking with Emily Sexton at the State Library Victoria in Melbourne. 20 March 2018, 6:30pm–7:30pm Free →
February 25, 2018I published a short Op-Ed for Artnet based on writing I did at the C4AA.org site and the →
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January 19, 2018We’re building a third version of the Capitalism Works For Me! True/False sign to tour Melbourne (and hopefully →
December 27, 2017Stephen Duncombe arranges a Sunday Brunch at Jane Restaurant in NYC. Steve Lambert brings a long his mom as the expert, a former Domincan nun →
December 15, 201711×17 Risograph Created in edition of 100 as thank you for the Center for Artistic Activism end of →
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