🌍How can African artists face pressure on artistic freedom? The 2026 PANAF Summit united 80+ leaders in Addis Ababa. ARC partnered to coordinate. #ArtistsUnderThreat #FreedomOfExpression #ArtForChange #SupportArtists #ArtistProtection #ARCinAfrica #ArtisticFreedom #GlobalSolidarity

🌍 Open Call: ASSEMBLE Fellowship for displaced artists, curators & cultural practitioners. Apply by 26 March 2026! 🔗 https://ow.ly/p0zq50YsCGh #Fellowship #Artists #ArtistsUnderThreat #SupportArtists #ArtForChange #AssembleEurope #ArtistOpenCall #ArtistFellowship #ArtistOpportunity

This image by Cinzia Canneri, for Association Camille Lepage, included in the #WPPh2025 Exhibition, shows women finding strength and support in each other despite experiencing trauma, at Um Rakuba Refugee camp, Gedaref, Sudan, on 4 June, 2021. Visit now: worldpressphoto.org/calendar

Thrilled to announce a new partnership between The Grey List and @pagecraft.bsky.social. Together we’re launching a new Screenwriting Fellowship, w/ the winner receiving a seat in the 2027 Concept to Pages Lab in Orvieto, Italy! Sign up to learn more & receive updates: LINK in comments #scriptsky+

💜 When women's voices are threatened, art resists. ARC supports women artists facing censorship and violence. ✊ On #InternationalWomensDay, we stand with them. Read their stories: https://ow.ly/aNoL50YqGR0 #WomensRights #VoicesAtRisk #SupportArtists Dashka Slater

Read our new addition to the Snapshots of Censorship series written by Dr. Leonard Bright. “When academic freedom is attacked…all of our students suffer.” https://pen.org/blog-series/snapshots-of-censorship/

I'm bringing a business mindset to indie film production. Working on a project that needs someone who can protect both the creative and financial side of your project while helping actually get it in front of your target audience... Let's talk. #scriptsky #filmsky

A new Texas law restricting protests on college campuses means that "the theme of this academic year is anxiety and fear,” says Kristen Shahverdian, program director of campus free speech at PEN America. Learn more at: https://pen.org/harsh-penalties-for-protests-on-campus/

#BRISMES2026 | We are deeply grateful to Gaza-based artist Osama Hussein for the official illustration of this year’s conference, "War, Empire and Sabotage in an Age of Genocide." Check out Osama’s work here: instagram.com/os.hussen/ #AcademicConference #MiddleEastStudies #GazaArtists

Despite everything, new projects brewing 📸 Yasmin Shalaldeh

40% of U.S. artists feel unprepared for current threats. Keep an eye out for more results from The National Artist Safety Survey. 👇 Comment below what you're most interested to learn about 👇 #CAA #NASS #ArtistsUnderThreat #ArtistSafety #ArtistSupport

When artists challenge power, censorship follows. Black artists like Dread Scott of Fall of Freedom keep the radical tradition alive. #ArtIsPower #ProtectArtists #BlackHistoryMonth #ArtAgainstOppression https://ow.ly/rHR650YntKW

🚨 Iranian calligrapher Sadegh Mansouri is critically ill after denied medical care despite bail. ARC calls for his immediate medical treatment and release. Full statement: https://ow.ly/PPyp50Yn6Ai #FreeSadeghMansouri #ArtistsUnderThreat #Iran #HumanRights #ArtisticFreedom

On the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we honour voices that bear witness. At the PEN Congress in Kraków, Volodymyr Yermolenko, President of PEN Ukraine, spoke with @smohyeddin.bsky.social on literature’s role in documenting loss. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDL5...

UNDER PRESSURE – the latest reporting on the situation confronting threatened cartoonists worldwide – will be released next week. Published by @cartooningforpeace.bsky.social co-authored by Cartoonists Rights. Register now to receive a free copy by email Monday. cartoonistsrights.org/under-pressu...

4 years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian artists continue to create. ARC has created a safety guide for artists navigating the war. Read & share: https://ow.ly/2hTc50YkPwY Do not look away. #ArtAgainstOppression #ArtistsUnderThreat

ARC highlights "Defending Each Other in the USA" — a collective call to action which distills key ideas shared during the ArtsLink Assembly 2025 at La MaMa in NYC.

“I see myself as a fighter whose weapons are words.” — Mahtab Yaghma Iranian poet Mahtab Yaghma centers women’s experiences and challenges injustice through poetry and digital activism. Forced into exile in 2020, she continues to use her words as tools of resistance against the regime.

ARC – Artists at Risk Connection is hiring an Artist Protection Consultant! This role supports artists and cultural workers under threat through case coordination, research, grant support, and advocacy.

ARC is hiring! We are seeking an International Programs Consultant to support and strengthen our international initiatives.

🎥🌟 If you haven’t seen these extraordinary short films from the Art of Exile series, you still can!

🇺🇦🌻 Last week, ARC’s Executive Director Julie Trébault had the pleasure of joining directors and representatives from French and Ukrainian arts and cultural organizations at Le Voyage en Ukraine at Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille.

“I hope international audiences understand...Afghan women are strong, resilient, and resistant. Even under gender apartheid, they continue to fight for their existence and dignity.” - Zahra Abrahimi, Afghan visual artist and activist

ARC - Artists at Risk Connection stands in solidarity with Minnesota, the undocumented community in the U.S., and all those who are participating in the National Shutdown on January 30th, 2026. Read the Full Statement - artistsatriskconnection.org/statement/ar... #nationalshutdown

⛓🎨 ARC’s latest digital exhibition, The Art of Resistance, is still live! The exhibition features the work of 13 contemporary Russian and Belarusian visual artists who have mobilized against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine through acts of creative resistance.

ARC joins Civil Rights Defenders, PEN International, and PEN Cuba in Exile in condemning the prison sentences imposed on writer and journalist José Gabriel Barrenechea Chávez and rapper, artist, and activist Fernando Almenares Rivera (Nando OBDC).

“My work is not far from political matters, because the geography I was born in and the experiences I lived through have politicized my work.” — Zehra Doğan

✨ Anunciamos con mucho entusiasmo a lxs artistas seleccionadxs para la tercera edición del Programa de Becas de Resiliencia para Artistas Cubanos Migrantes. ¡Felicitaciones a todxs lxs becarixs! Estamos muy emocionados de acompañar y apoyar su trabajo en los próximos meses. 👏

✨ We’re thrilled to announce the selected artists for the third edition of the Cuban Migrant Artists Resilience Fellowship! Congratulations to all the fellows! We’re excited to support and accompany their work in the coming months. 👏

UPDATE: ARC is deeply saddened to learn of the killing of additional artists during the January protests in Iran and calls on the authorities to stop their assault on and detention of protesters, and on the international community to take urgent action to halt escalating human rights violations.

✍️ Open Call: IHRAF – Hannah Arendt Festival (NYC, June 5–7, 2026) The International Human Rights Art Movement invites artists & performers to submit live work (any discipline, 10–20 min) inspired by the ideas of Hannah Arendt.

How are young artists and cultural organizers using creativity to resist authoritarianism, build solidarity, and reimagine participation and justice?

🇮🇷ARC strongly condemns reported killings and attacks against artists in Iran amid nationwide protests that began on 28 Dec 2025.

🇹🇿⛓️ ARC calls for an end to the judicial harassment of Emanuel Mathias, a Tanzanian artist who was arbitrarily detained on 11 Dec in Dar es Salaam and released on bail after a month of being held without charge. He remains under restrictive conditions that limit his freedom.

The U.S. decision to withdraw from numerous international and UN-affiliated organizations, including our partner IFACCA, threatens the ecosystem that helps protect artistic freedom and cultural rights worldwide. #ArtistsAtRisk #CulturalRights #ArtisticFreedom #FreeExpression

“I believe it is regrettable that many Venezuelan artists are not condemning the military intervention of the USA in Venezuela, especially artists addressing geopolitical issues in their work and assuming postcolonial stances...

📢 ARC in the press—Reflecting on last year. As we get started in the new year, ARC is looking back at moments throughout 2025 when we’ve been featured in the press.

“Safety is never a promise. It is just a way to get me to compromise.” — Badiucao Badiucao is a Chinese political cartoonist whose satirical art confronts censorship, authoritarianism, and human rights abuses. Working for years under a pseudonym, he continues to use art as a form of resistance.

🌱✨ Only FIVE DAYS left to apply for Prince Claus Fund SEED Award 2026! Are you an early-career artist or cultural practitioner whose work engages urgent local social or political issues? The 2026 SEED Award is still open for applications!

✨HAPPY NEW YEAR from ARC! As ARC steps into 2026 with determination and hope, we reflect on the immense challenges artists and cultural workers continue to face around the world. Artistic freedom is not abstract. It is a cornerstone of human rights and a global catalyst for change.

🇰🇷📢 ARC joins call to drop all charges against Jung Yoon-suk! We stand with the South Korean filmmaker who has been unjustly prosecuted for his documentary work reporting on civil unrest. ARC has joined ICFR and partners in urging Korean authorities to immediately drop all charges against him.

As we near the end of 2025, ARC is reflecting on moments that reminded us why this work matters. ✨ Today, we highlight the release this year of Alaa Abd El Fatta—after years of unjust imprisonment in Egypt, including continued detention beyond the completion of his arbitrary sentence.

⏰🔥 Últimos 2 días para postular a la Beca de Resiliencia para Artistas Cubanos Migrantes. Accede a acompañamiento profesional, recursos y una comunidad de artistas en la diáspora. Postula aquí: artistsatriskconnection.org/cuban-migran... #ArteCubano #BecaDeResiliencia #ArtistasCubanosMigrantes

⏰🔥 Only 2 days left to apply to the Cuban Migrant Artists Resilience Fellowship. Get professional support, resources, and a community of artists in the diaspora. Apply here: artistsatriskconnection.org/cuban-migran... #CubanArt #ResilienceFellowship #CubanMigrantArtists

🎥“I didn’t plan to become an activist… The artistic products are tools to push for changing laws.” — Zeina Daccache

🌍 The week of #InternationalMigrantsDay, we honor the resilience, creativity, and contributions of migrants worldwide. Migrants, and the artists among them, enrich our cultures, communities, and shared human story.

🌟 Conoce a las dos primeras cohortes de la Beca de Resiliencia para Artistas Cubanos Migrantes. Esta tercera edición permitirá que los nuevos becarios exhiban junto a los ex-becarios.

🌟 Meet the first two cohorts of the Cuban Migrant Artists Resilience Fellowship. This third edition will allow new fellows to exhibit alongside program alumni. 📌 Applications open: artistsatriskconnection.org/cuban-migran... #CubanArt #ResilienceFellowship #CubanMigrantArtists #ARCalumni

🎶 “Reggae is a music that never runs out of breath.” — Elie Kamano Guinean reggae singer and activist Elie Kamano has spent two decades using music to challenge repression and mobilize youth for justice and democracy.

ARC strongly condemns the arrest of Iranian artists & human rights defenders Earlier today, photographer Aliyeh Motalebzadeh, visual artist & activist Sepideh Gholian, and writer Abolfazl Abri were detained during a ceremony marking the 7-day mourning period for human rights lawyer Khosro Alikordi