Artists of color across the United States are part of the artistic, political, and cultural avant-garde, audaciously pushing the limits of multiple boundaries while seeking to imagine and cultivate alternative and liberated futures. And they undertook their efforts in collaboration with important allies. Learn from artists, activists, and political visionaries who arduously worked to make a new world possible and sought to challenge and disrupt aesthetic frameworks, colonialism, gender subjugation, structural racism, and economic disparity. Drawing from interdisciplinary perspectives, investigate how Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous, and some progressive White artivists used the arts, as well as social, political and cultural organizing, to bring about uncompromising transformation and cultivate radical praxis. Learn and discuss the interconnected dynamic visions and practices of key political movements and organizations, such as the African American Black Panthers, the Puerto Rican Young Lords, the Chicanx Brown Berets, the Chinese American I Wor Kuen, The Asian American Movement, the Red Power Movement, Indigenous American Indian Movement, and Chicago’s original Rainbow Coalition. On the cultural front, learn about the formidable socio-aesthetics shaping the Black Arts Movement, the Puerto Rican/New Rican/Nuyorican Arts Movement, the Chicanx Arts movement, and Afro-Futurism, among others. The course assignments will be as dynamic as the movements and artists considered during the semester. Building on each person’s interests and expertise, assignments can include a range of innovative and interdisciplinary activities, such as: reflection essays, a research paper, creative performances ( e.g., paintings, poetry, theater skits, musical performances, etc.), podcasts, the construction of a website, designing and producing a zine, and/or undertaking a team-based group project that incorporates a combination thereof.