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Caleb Aero is inspired by the internet!

Jen Abrams, Louise Ma, Carl Tashian, Rich Watts, and Caroline Woolard of OurGoods

Garnett Alcindor of Candy Rush, Social Media for Kids, Franklin Ave merchants association is inspired by children and music

Doug Ashford is inspired by Watteau, Ben Nicholson, the Black Panther Breakfast Program

Archie and Jeff of PlayLab are inspired by Tell Me Why by Karlssonwilker

Petrushka Bazin Larsen of the Laundromat Project is inspired by  I Will Teach You to be Rich, Echoing Green, and their book Work on Purpose

Chloe Bass, Artist, Arts in Bushwick organizer,  is inspired by Participation by Claire Bishop

Ellie Balk is inspired by Biggie Smalls and David McCandless

Dan Bejar is inspired by the movie Style Wars

Achille Bianchi of OmniCorp Detroit is inspired by Jack Kerouac 

BG183, member of Tats Cru, is inspired by everything that he sees

Jon Blount of Detroit Summer is inspired by Invincible 

Tania Bruguera wassinspired by the 2005 Riots in Paris and Joseph Beuys 

Carey Clark, visual arts director at The Point, is inspired by The Cosmic Serpent

Sharon De La Cruz, A.C.T.I.O.N. program director at the Point, is inspired by graffiti, Nina Simone and photosynthesis

Stephen Duncombe, professor at NYU’s Center for Artistic Activism

Tom Finkelpearl, executive director of the Queens Museum of Art is inspired by Bob Marley Live in London, No Woman No Cry

Camilo Godoy, intern at Immigrant Movement International and art student at the New School, is inspired by undocumented workers everywhere

Naomi Hersson-Ringskog, executive director of No Longer Empty

Edward Hillel, founder of the Harlem Bienalle

Remy Holwick, painter, muralist, and designer, is inspired by her dad and sex! 

Erik Howard founder of TAP gallery and Young Nation is inspired by creative placemaking

Aurash Khawarzad, of Do Tank Brooklyn, is inspired by closing his laptop and walking around

Gwyneth Leech is inpsired by choral music, especially Palestrina and Thomas Tallis, and the blog Laughing Squid

Cheryl Mcginnis is a curator at the Flatiron Prow Art Space

Shantell Martin is inspired by her friends

Naomi Miller and Katarina Jerinic, founders of The Work Office, are inspired by the Farm Security Administration, Walker Evans, Learning to Love you More by Miranda July

Terry Marshall, co-founder of Occupy Comix, is inspired by  Dream: Re-imaging Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy by Stephen Duncombe, Beautiful Trouble, The Modern Prince by Antonio Gramsci, and Stuart Hall

Eve Mosher

Partizaning, an activist art collective in Russia including: 

• Make, who is inspired by The situationists, video games, bicycling, maps
• Igor, who is inspired by women :-)
• Shriya, who is inspired by maps, urban play, naturescapes, situationists + psychogeography, human emotion, behavior in public spaces / cities, cycling, thinkers and dreamers.
• Sonya, who is inspired by sense of humour, women, men, kids, animals, guerrilla gardening, cycling.

Dan Pitera

Pebbles and Jon founders of Centre-Fuge street art gallery

Heidi Quante is inspired by her grandmother, Henry David Thoreau, Bjork, Michael Verhoeven, the Yes Men, Nelson Mandela, Ursula Sladek, and fellow ArtRoots interviewee Eve Mosher!

Rebeca Ramirez is inspired by Julie Taymor and Bertolt Brecht

Amanda Sansoterra, Assistant to the artist Tyree Guyton at the Heidelberg Project, director of HP’s Emerging Artist Program and intern/volunteer coordinator, is inspired by so many things and so many people! 

Michael Sclafani, of the Washington Ave Merchant Association, is inpsired by Macintosh’s Think Different Ad

Dread Scott is inspired by  Basics by Bob Avakian, and the work of Carrie Mae Weems, Fred Wilson, Hans Haacke, Leon Golub, Cai Guo Qiang, Wafaa Bilal

Jose Serrano-McClain, founder of Trust Art, is inspired by  The Gift by Lewis Hyde

Cameron Sinclair, Executive Director of Architecture for Humanity, is inspired by Samuel Mockbee and Banksy

Stacey Sheffy, VP of Crow Hill Community Association, is inspired by her activist parents, especially her dad who helped integrate the NYPD

Mike Zuckerman   is inspired by Street Art Cookbook

Lana Zellner and Kristen Svorka of Art not Arrests are inspired by people who don’t compromise their values