THE Creative Justice CHALLENGE
Create Advocacy Through Creativity
Join the Creative Justice Challenge and use your creativity to make a difference. Whether you’re an individual artist or part of a team, you can submit your work and collaborate with creatives to inspire change.
Step One:
Choose Your Category
Whether your creativity shines through film, photography, spoken word, digital media, painting, or dance, there’s a place for you here.
These steps are for individual participants—but if you’d rather join an existing team, click here to collaborate on a Challenge project that’s already underway.
Pick the category
(see list below).Pick the medium
(see list below).
Step Two:
Create Your Piece
Your submission should be thoughtful, engaging, and relevant to the challenge’s mission—educating, informing, and empowering communities.
Step Three:
Submit Your Work
Upload your project via our submission portal (or email/Google Drive for large files). Provide a short description, including your inspiration and intended impact.
Have questions?
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Post your submission on social media using our challenge hashtag (#CreativeJusticeChallenge).
Step Four:
We thrive. You thrive.
CJC Category Groups
Topic-Based Categories
Mental Health & Community Resilience Award – The intersection of mental health and the community.
Disability & Accessibility Award – Disability discrimination, accessibility rights, and fair accommodations.
Housing Justice Award – Tenant rights and property management discrimination failures.
LGBTQ+ Rights & Safety Award – discrimination, hostile living or working environments, and LGBTQ+ rights.
Unhoused & Housing Instability Award – The crisis of homelessness in communities.
Mental Health Award – Focus on the mental health both impacting individuals and communities.
Immigrant & Minority Rights Award – Barriers to fair housing, racial discrimination, and targeted displacement.
Legal Barriers & Systemic Injustice Award – How income, disability, or the legal system creates barriers to justice.
Survivor Art (Mental Health) Award – Recognizing powerful artistic expressions by individuals who have lived through mental health challenges, transforming personal experiences into compelling works that inspire awareness, resilience, and healing.
Survivor Art (Religious Hate) Award – Honoring artists who have faced religious discrimination or civil rights violations, using their creative work to confront intolerance, preserve identity, and advocate for justice.
Survivor Art (Marginalized Communities) Award – Celebrating artistic voices from individuals who have endured discrimination or violence due to gender, LGBTQ+ identity, or other marginalized statuses, turning hardship into impactful storytelling and advocacy.
Freedom & Liberty Award – Recognizing work that addresses freedom and liberty on a national or international level.
Anti-Semitism & Religious Justice Award – Addressing discrimination, hate crimes, and systemic oppression against Jewish communities and other religious minorities. Recognizing art that educates, exposes, and combats religious intolerance.
Cultural Heritage & Community Resilience Award – Celebrating how cultural traditions thrive in diverse communities, fostering resilience, belonging, and identity in the U.S.
Mental Health & Cultural Identity Award – Exploring how different cultures perceive, stigmatize, or embrace mental health through the lens of artists from their own cultural backgrounds.
Mental Health for Young Artists Award – Supporting emerging artists who focus on mental health awareness for young adults, students, and early-career creatives.
Mental Health Advocacy Award – Honoring projects that have significantly influenced public policy, media narratives, or legal actions related to mental health.
Reproductive Rights & Bodily Autonomy Award – Exploring the intersection of reproductive rights, access to healthcare, and systemic oppression through creative works that shed light on these critical issues.
Environmental & Nature Healing Award – Highlighting projects that focus on environmental activism, climate justice, and the power of nature on mental health.
Public Awareness & Advocacy Award – Honoring creative projects that have significantly influenced policy, media narratives, or public action.
Medium-Based Categories
Best Short Film Award – For documentary or narrative storytelling through film.
Best Photography & Visual Storytelling Award – Capturing injustice through impactful imagery.
Spoken Word & Poetry Award – The power of words to inspire and educate.
Music & Sound for Impact Award – Songs, compositions, and sound-driven activism.
Digital & Motion Art Award – Animation, motion graphics, and digital storytelling.
Performance Art Award – Dance, skits, or theater-based advocacy.
Illustration & Graphic Design Award – Using visual art to expose injustice.
Personal Narrative Award – Storytelling through first-person experiences.
Experimental & Mixed Media Award – Projects that combine multiple creative disciplines (e.g., from textiles to digital).
MUA & Hair Award – Celebrating Makeup Artists and Hairstylists whose artistry significantly contributes to storytelling.
Handcrafted Activism Award – Celebrating craft-based activism through handmade works such as textile arts, woodwork, ceramics, quilting, jewelry-making, embroidery, and sculpture that tell stories of resistance, resilience, and advocacy.
Wearable Art & Costume Design Award – Recognizing the artistry of wearable activism, including handmade fashion, upcycled designs, and culturally significant garments that make statements on social justice issues.
Community & Public Art Award – Honoring collaborative art installations, murals, or craft-based community projects that engage and uplift communities through visual storytelling.
Empowered
Step into a thriving creative movement where artists uplift one another, transforming everyday spaces into dynamic expressions of self-expression. Stylists, designers, photographers, and performers come together to turn the ordinary into something extraordinary.
Captured through the lens of photographer Matt Ordeshook, this underground gathering radiates raw energy, bold artistry, and limitless creativity.
Learn More About This Showcase
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Get In Touch
Connect with us to share your creative work and help expose injustices faced by vulnerable communities. Together, we can make a difference.
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