Volunteers are lending their time, celebrities use their fame, while others donate money. People everywhere– including artists– are showing their solidarity with the refugee crisis and are trying to raise awareness of the human suffering happening in the Aegean Sea.
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei posed as Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who washed up on a Turkish beach last year and Georgia Lale, a New York-based Greek performance artist is roaming the streets of New York wearing an orange life vest, hoping to raise awareness amongst the millions of tourists and residents of America’s biggest city, thousands of miles away from the crisis.

Georgia Lale wearing an orange life vest in the streets of New York for her #OrangeVest campaign

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, posing as Aylan Kurdi. (Rohit Chawla for India Today)

Jovcho Savov’s Aegean Guernica

Pablo Picasso’s Guernica from 193