Happy Europe Day! 🥳
To mark this year’s celebration, in collaboration with @europeanculturalfoundation , we invited 14 artists from across the continent to share their perspectives – exploring what Europe means to them, and what still feels missing, fragile, or worth fighting for.
All works are published under an open license on TheGreats.co – free to use and adapt in actions for Europe (👀link in bio).
Print them, share them, put them on the streets, bring them into your next campaign – they are yours. 💙
What does Europe mean to you? 💙
Europe is more than a place – it’s a shared project, shaped by people, pressure, and possibility.
Every May 9, we celebrate what has been built and imagine what more Europe can become.
This year, we partnered with the @europeanculturalfoundation to invite 14 artists from across Europe to create illustrations for Europe Day 2026.
In the days leading up to May 9, we’ll be sharing their work – each piece reflecting on the values that connect us and the future we want to shape together.
✨Huge thanks to today’s artists for their amazing work:
@lilykongyuet | United Kingdom
@articokas | Serbia/Croatia
@mrstevemccarthy | Ireland
@zielinska.ada | Poland
All works are published under an open license on TheGreats.co, and are free to use, adapt, and share in actions for Europe.
Want to host an event or do a pop-up exhibition for Europe Day? We’ve got you covered.
Get all ready to print files at the link in our bio! 📬
What does Europe mean to you? 💙
Europe is more than a place – it’s a shared project, shaped by people, pressure, and possibility.
Every May 9, we celebrate what has been built and imagine what more Europe can become.
This year, we partnered with the @europeanculturalfoundation to invite 14 artists from across Europe to create illustrations for Europe Day 2026.
In the days leading up to May 9, we’ll be sharing their work – each piece reflecting on the values that connect us and the future we want to shape together.
✨Huge thanks to today’s artists for their wonderful work: @goh_illustration | Sweden @borillustrations | Slovakia @mattiariami | Italy @backboned_deer | Iceland @4ur3lia | France
All works are published under an open license on TheGreats.co, and are free to use, adapt, and share in actions for Europe.
Want to host an event or do a pop-up exhibition for Europe Day? We’ve got you covered.
Get all ready to print files at the link in our bio! 📬
What does Europe mean to you? 💙
Europe is more than a place – it’s a shared project, shaped by people, pressure, and possibility.
Every May 9, we celebrate what has been built and imagine what more Europe can become.
This year, we partnered with the @europeanculturalfoundation to invite 14 artists from across Europe to create illustrations for Europe Day 2026.
In the days leading up to May 9, we’ll be sharing their work – each piece reflecting on the values that connect us and the future we want to shape together.
✨Huge thanks to this week’s artists for their incredible work: @pepeserra | Spain @tanya.korn | Ukraine @rozalinaburkova | Bulgaria @aninatakeff | Germany @nina.masina | Bosnia & Herzegovina
All works are published under an open license on TheGreats.co, and are free to use, adapt, and share in actions for Europe.
Want to host an event or do a pop-up exhibition for Europe Day? We’ve got you covered.
Get all ready to print files at the link in our bio! 📬
💥 CELEBRATE EUROPE DAY WITH OUR EXHIBITION IN A BOX 💥
For this year’s Europe Day, we partnered up with the @europeanculturalfoundation to create a unique “Exhibition in a Box” – a ready-to-print collection of artworks reflecting on the values that shape Europe today.
📦 This kit is designed to help anyone, anywhere, set up a pop-up exhibition – in galleries, schools, community centers, or outdoor public spaces.
Inside you will find:
🪄14 powerful posters by artists from across Europe
🪄each poster in English + the artist’s native language
🪄2 versions of an opening poster
📬Get your kit today at the link in our bio.
Let’s celebrate Europe Day 2026 together!
Illustrations by @rozalinaburkova , @articokas , @4ur3lia , @backboned_deer , @goh_illustration , @borillustrations , @nina.masina , @lilykongyuet , @tanya.korn , @mrstevemccarthy , @mattiariami , @pepeserra , @aninatakeff , @zielinska.ada
In a world flooded with facts, stats, and noise, we need stories that cut through – making big issues feel human, personal, and full of possibility.
This Earth Day we are celebrating with a video from our short film initiative “Visions for Change”, created in collaboration with @handplayed :
“One Small Cycle” by Deyan Tsvyatkov (@here.is.dino )
Happy Earth Day – for more conscious everyday choices and change that spreads 🌍💛
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“Visions for Change” is an initiative by @fineacts creating short films that reframe urgent issues through stories that hit close to home.
Join us for a Zoom panel discussion called “A Conversation with Activist Artists” led by Rhode Island School of Design President Crystal Williams featuring Tracie Ching (multidisciplinary artist and founder of We Create), Shepard Fairey (Rhode Island School of Design alum and Trustee; founder of Obey Giant), Dread Scott (longtime activist and School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum), and Yana Buhrer Tavanier (creative activist and co-founder of Fine Acts).
Monday, April 27, 7–8:30 pm EDT. Free and open to the public—register for the online discussion at link in profile.
✨ BRAVE NEW FUTURES – Meet the participants (PART 3) ✨
Brave New Futures: MENA Strategic Imagination Labs is a 24-month experiment in bold thinking, radical creativity, and collective transformation.
Rather than a traditional capacity-building program, it is a shared process of co-learning, co-envisioning, and co-creation – shaped by the collective brilliance of the group.
Over two years, we’ll explore how imagination, art, hope, and creative play can unlock new approaches to civic work and systems change.
From a pool of over 100 outstanding applicants, we’ve brought together a cohort of 15 visionary civic organizations from across the MENA region.
Introducing the last five orgs, and their inspiring representatives stepping into our bold experiment:
@wekalet.behna & Omayma Abdelshafy
@karakeeb.co & @rababelrefaee@khateera__ & @ranaaskoul@medrar_ & @raneemelhaddad@tajallaorg & @russol
🔗 Head over to our website to see the full lineup of BRAVE NEW FUTURES participants – link in bio.
✨ BRAVE NEW FUTURES – Meet the participants (PART 2) ✨
Brave New Futures: MENA Strategic Imagination Labs is a 24-month experiment in bold thinking, radical creativity, and collective transformation.
Rather than a traditional capacity-building program, it is a shared process of co-learning, co-envisioning, and co-creation – shaped by the collective brilliance of the group.
Over two years, we’ll explore how imagination, art, hope, and creative play can unlock new approaches to civic work and systems change.
From a pool of over 100 outstanding applicants, we’ve brought together a cohort of 15 visionary civic organizations from across the MENA region.
Say hi to the next five orgs, and the exceptional people behind them:
@sowt.media & Leen Karadsheh
@rummantripoli & @mo_shka@albaladtheater & Muhammad Amireh
@damj_association & @moayed_ben_slimen_saidani@publicworksstudio & Nadine Bekdache
🚀 Check out our Instagram page tomorrow, to meet all the incredible organizations taking part.
🔗 Or visit our website for more details – link in bio!
✨ BRAVE NEW FUTURES – Meet the participants (PART 1) ✨
Brave New Futures: MENA Strategic Imagination Labs is a 24-month experiment in bold thinking, radical creativity, and collective transformation.
Rather than a traditional capacity-building program, it is a shared process of co-learning, co-envisioning, and co-creation – shaped by the collective brilliance of the group.
Over two years, we’ll explore how imagination, art, hope, and creative play can unlock new approaches to civic work and systems change.
From a pool of over 100 outstanding applicants, we’ve brought together a cohort of 15 visionary civic organizations from across the MENA region.
Meet the first five orgs, and the brilliant people behind them:
@interference_light_art & @aymen___gharbi@actforhope & @cindymizher@havenforartists & @dayna_ash@thinktanger & @hhichambouzid@le18marrakech & @kholotista
🚀 Catch our next two posts to see the rest of the amazing organizations joining us.
🔗 Or check out our website for more details – link in bio!
Connection is becoming a luxury.
In “Business as Usual” – @gabebs ’s new solo exhibition created with the support of Fine Acts and currently on view at @c24gallery in NYC – the works unfold like a distorted mirror of contemporary life.
This is not a clean reflection, but a funhouse version: exaggerated on purpose, but unsettlingly familiar.
Straddling the line between warning and prophecy, “Business as Usual” explores connectivity – both collective and personal – as a form of resistance in a system designed to keep us apart.
“The whole point of the internet and capitalism is to divide us in a way to enrich other people. So when you find moments of connection, it’s beautiful. It’s the most important thing in the world, I think, how to connect with people”, says @gabebc .
We sat down with him to speak about disconnection, technology, and why creativity still gives him hope – read the whole interview at the link in our bio.
And see our previous post for more of the exhibition’s works.
📢 If you’re in New York, don’t miss Business as Usual at @c24gallery – on view until April 18.
Photos: Regina Urazayeva and Michelle Higa Fox.
Nothing is usual anymore.
“Business as Usual” by Gabriel Barcia-Colombo (@gabebc ), created with the support of Fine Acts and on view at @c24gallery in NYC, asks a simple but unsettling question:
What does it mean to go about our “business” when the world feels fundamentally out of balance?
Through humor, AI-generated “studies”, looping escalators and fractured commutes, the exhibition examines disconnection, pseudoscience, and the illusion of progress.
Are we moving forward – or just moving?
“I don’t think we should be making rules for art at all. Anybody should be able to make anything they want. But I do think that if you are interested in reflecting on what’s happening in the world today, there’s no better place to do it than by making artwork”, says @gabebc .
Read the whole interview with him at the link in our bio.
📢 If you’re in New York, don’t miss “Business as Usual” at @c24gallery – on view only until April 18.
Photos: Regina Urazayeva and Michelle Higa Fox.
