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# Artists Respond with Devastation, Then Determination, to the Election of Donald Trump
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/artists-respond-with-devastation-then-determination-to-the-election-of-donald-trump/
- Published: 2016-11-10T23:30:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:28:28.000Z
- Description: The shock after Donald Trump's election has turned to anger and determination, a galvanizing desire to fight for change and a better world than the one the President-elect plans to create.
- Author: Carey Dunne
- Tags: News, Donald Trump, election, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

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Barbara Kruger, cover for New York Magazine (November 2016)

In the first 24 hours following [Donald Trump’s election](https://hyperallergic.com/the-trump-nightmare-is-here/) as the next president of the United States, the response among many who’d hoped and voted for a different outcome was mostly numbing and immobilizing shock. But in the following 24 hours, shock turned turned to anger and determination, a galvanizing desire to fight for change and a better world than the one that President-elect Trump plans to create. Tens of thousands [took to the streets](http://gothamist.com/2016/11/10/trump%5Fprotest%5Fmarch%5Fnyc.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) [around](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-trump-hotel-protest-chicago-20161109-story.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) the [country](http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/30-arrested-3-officers-hurt-in-Oakland-10606094.php?ref=hyperallergic.com), many concerned citizens planned actions and [events](https://hyperallergic.com/start-to-process-the-election-at-these-nyc-cultural-spaces-and-events/) in the days, weeks, and months to come, and many artists went back to making art — saddened, certainly, but also emboldened rather than defeated.

## Christina Massey

## The Illuminator

> [pic.twitter.com/RgFMBIJdZ0](https://t.co/RgFMBIJdZ0?ref=hyperallergic.com)  
>  
> — The Illuminator (@illuminator99) [November 10, 2016](https://twitter.com/illuminator99/status/796532358161776640?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com)

**Bill Adams**

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## Elbow Toe

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## Hardy Stewart

## Sam Moyer

## Julia Oldham

## Fanny Allié

## Steve ESPO Powers

## Zoe Buckman

## Will Pappenheimer

## Hope Gangloff

## D\*Face

## Lee Russell

## Liz Glynn

## Wangechi Mutu

## Brennen Bechtol

## The Moving Company