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Why Is For Freedoms Designing Art for a New Brooklyn Jail? [UPDATED]
The collective proposed a series of works for the controversial Borough-Based Jails project, which has received pushback from artists and organizers.
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Southern Poverty Law Center Backs Removal of For Freedoms Billboard
The billboard’s use of a MAGA slogan over an image from Selma's Bloody Sunday "disrespects John Lewis’ legacy and contributions to the Civil Rights Movement,” said the nonprofit.
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Montgomery Mayor Calls for Removal of “Politicized” Billboard Artwork
The work, designed by the art collective For Freedoms, depicts a photograph from Selma’s Bloody Sunday in 1965 overlaid with Trump’s campaign slogan.
Opinion
We Need More Creatives in Politics
Creative types are an untapped group of exciting potential political candidates who are equipped with the lived and professional experience that would benefit public service and policy.
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A Call for Creativity in the Final Weeks of the 2020 Census
Artists, designers, filmmakers, writers, and the organizations that serve them have a unique power to craft and circulate art and stories that illustrate what is at stake.
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An Evening of Jazz and Mural-Making, In Honor of Charles White
At MoMA, For Freedoms invites guests to contribute to a mural while jazz ensemble Onyx Collective moves through the galleries.
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A Pop-Up Show for Social Justice Organized by Hank Willis Thomas, Michelle Woo, and Others
Into Action is a nine-day long pop-up exhibition that aims to reinforce the connection between art and social justice, activism, and cultural resistance.
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Get Involved with the Visual Resistance
Happening on March 1 at Aperture, the Visual Resistance Community Action Forum is open to anyone looking to fight oppression in creative ways.
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Mississippi Governor Decries Billboard by Artist-Led Super PAC
The For Freedoms artist-led super PAC is riling people in Mississippi with a billboard that combines Donald Trump's campaign slogan with a Civil Rights-era photo.
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Dread Scott Discusses Controversial Lynching Banner that Sparked Threats
For one week, the monumental flag bearing the text, "A MAN WAS LYNCHED BY POLICE YESTERDAY" flew outside Jack Shainman Gallery's West 20th location as Dread Scott's unfortunate update to the nearly identical one the NAACP once flew outside its Manhattan headquarters.