EVENTS

Nic[o] Brierre Aziz: In Conversation
Tuesday, April 22nd, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Free and open to the public

Art and Politics:
A Panel Discussion with Nicólas González-Medina and Kal Spelletich
Wednesday, April 30th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Free and open to the public

This is Doug Hall:
A Conversation with Artist Doug Hall about his Recently Published Memoir
Saturday, May 17th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Free and open to the public

May There Be Light:
A Two-Part Workshop on Designing and Planning Large Scale Projection Art
Presented by Christy Chan
Wednesday, May 14th and Tuesday, May 20th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Free with registration
Registration limited to eight people.
(We encourage participation by BIPOCand LGBTQIA folk).

More Information available: HERE!

FULL STATEMENT

Since  beginning his second term as President, Donald Trump has undertaken a frontal assault on our political institutions, aimed solely at consolidating his power. He has actively undermined the rule of law and exploited his position for the enrichment of himself and his cronies. He has implemented loyalty tests, based on acceptance of the “Big Lie” that the last election was stolen, and he has initiated a radical racist, sexist, and homophobic ideological agenda, targeting the most vulnerable, marginalized people in our society and subjecting them to extra-legal forms of discrimination and persecution.

As an exhibition of political art, this show registers the re-election of Donald Trump, as an attempted authoritarian take-over of the country that we are watching unfold in real time. At the same time, the show adopts an historical lens on our current crisis,foregrounding the longstanding authoritarian tendency in American politics,from Huey Long to George Wallace and beyond; and it ties this tendency to the authoritarianism of white supremacy integral to our country’s past. That is, not only have authoritarian movements in America’s past been marked by their xenophobia and racism, but white supremacy itself has functioned as a pervasive form of authoritarianism, plaguing the lives of people of color and compromising our self-proclaimed principles of liberty and justice.

Finally, the show marks a site of resistance, highlighting these artists’ voices as political protests – integral to their work as artists – and championing public activist opposition to the ever-present threat of authoritarianism, now taking hold of our society.