Paula Meninato

Paula Meninato

Artist, Activist, & Public Speaker

Changing the World Through Art & Creative Dissent

Paula Meninato is an Argentine-born American artist that creates social change through artistic activism.

Since 2011, Paula has exhibited her socially-conscious art at 22 group exhibits and five solo shows in 8 countries, including a solo exhibition at the Embassy of Argentina in Washington, DC. In 2019, Paula curated a panel discussion at Tate Modern through the Tate Exchange program at Plymouth College of Art. In 2017, Meninato published Blueprint for Creative Dissent, an eBook on artistic activism. She is currently preparing for an exhibition at WheatonArts, a museum in New Jersey.

Paula graduated from Tyler School of Art with a BFA in Painting, academic honors and a presidential scholarship. She has a Masters in Arts from Plymouth College of Art, where she focused on practice-led research on how art can be used to dismantle cognitive barriers that enable anthropocentrism.

Work with Paula

Paula Meninato traveling to a speaking engagement in austria
Paula has given over 300 presentations and 10 speaking engagements in seven countries.
Since 2011, Paula has exhibited her socially conscious art in art exhibits and creative projects around the world.

Blueprint for

Creative Dissent

  • Are you passionate about social change?
  • Are you sick of wondering if your endless marching is working?
  • Want to create social change through art?
  • Do you want to be more creative in your approach to activism?
  •  Great! Then you will love Paula’s Free eBook:

Blueprint for Creative Dissent

  • After organizing for over ten years and reading extensively about creative activism and community organizing, Paula wrote Blueprint for Creative Dissent to help activists and artists like you create social change. She wants you to avoid the mistakes she made and be highly effective, so the eBook is completely free!

  • All you have to do is click the link below.

Blog & Youtube Channel

Beyond Raising Awareness

Beyond Raising Awareness aims to empower creative activists and artists through online trainings that merge arts education with community organizing.

By teaching advocates how to design campaigns that are effective, strategic, creative, and fun, Beyond Raising Awareness can help activists become more effective overall.

Youtube videos, blog posts, and presentations will serve as our main forms of training. We are interested in short, accessible Youtube tutorials. 

Paula is the founder of Beyond Raising Awareness. She creates the videos and writes the blog posts. 

 

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