Take One Action is a public campaign that calls on artists to explore how their creative practice can support democratic freedoms amid widespread fascism. As the American public becomes more embroiled in the effects of authoritarianism, the pressure on everyday people trying to survive rises. In the wake of a crashing economy, deteriorating medical and educational infrastructure, wars manipulating financial markets, and an upending AI revolution led by techno-oligarchs, public dissent ensues and sparks defiance. Such pressures become a catalyst for many artists to examine the political systems that define our personal lives, inspiring them to develop strategies that best support collective well-being. Through Take One Action, artists from across the United States are prompted to use their visual practice as a basis for presenting step-by-step actions that everyday people can take to save democracy. The initiative enacts a call-and-response between the people and their government. 

Take One Action becomes an outlet for artists who oppose systematic, environmental, and identity-based harm, prompting them to use their creative expression as an act of collective resistance. Take One Action orients viewers to embrace their responsibilities to our social world—both virtual and physical—to restore or prevent all freedoms lost. Through this campaign comes a kaleidoscopic view of creative ingenuity, grassroots organizing, and communal labor that transfers between the artists and the public.