Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves
Online Only
July 11 - September 29, 2019 Opening reception: Thursday, July 11, 6-9pm Our current exhibition focuses on the people, stations, and organizations that have battled to bring their defiant programming onto the airwaves, and particularly when these actions were in service of grassroots movements and/or community organizing.
More View Online ExhibitionEverybody’s Got A Right To Live: The Poor People’s Campaign 1968 & Now
Thursday, April 18, 2019 - Sunday, June 23, 2019
April 18 – June 23, 2019 Opening reception: Thursday, April 18, 6-9pm
Described as Martin Luther King Jr.’s “last great dream,” the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968 was an ambitious movement to make poverty in the world’s richest nation visible and to demand justice for poor Americans. This exhibition provides a look at some of the visual culture of the original PPC, including photographs of marches and rallies, press coverage, and a contemporary public response to a mural in Resurrection City called the ‘hunger wall,’ in addition to showcasing the efforts of the new PPC and a portfolio of Justseeds posters created in solidarity with their actions.
Moreif a song could be freedom . . . Organized Sounds of Resistance
Thursday, February 21, 2019 - Saturday, March 23, 2019
February 21st–March 23rd, 2019 Opening: Thursday, February 21 at 5pm AT THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND ART GALLERY This exhibition looks at how music has shaped the manners in which we understand ourselves in the past, present, and into the future. It features the picture sleeves of more than 200 political recordings—as well as other ephemera-from across the globe that expose the broad scope of the intersection of music and politics. Visitors are invited to listen to mixtape podcasts, which will also be played on WSIA 88.9FM during the course of the exhibit.
MoreHi-Viz: Australian Political Posters 1979–2019
Friday, February 8, 2019 - Sunday, April 14, 2019
February 8 – April 14, 2019 Opening reception: Friday, February 8, 6-9pm An exhibition of exquisite screen-printed posters—rarely seen in the U.S.—that provide a visual commentary of politics and life in Australia over the last four decades. Renowned for their high visibility, particularly in the 1980s with their saturated fluorescent colors, these posters describe the times and events that have engaged socially active artists throughout recent periods of major change.
MoreFree Education! The Free University of New York, Alternate U, and Learning Liberation
Thursday, October 11, 2018 - Sunday, January 27, 2019
October 11, 2018 - January 27, 2019
Opening reception: October 11, 6-9pm
Rooted in an examination of the history of the Free University of New York (FUNY), a 1960s experiment in radical education, this exhibition and event series reflects on the questions: What is a university? What does the university have that we want? What does the university have that we don’t want? How would a university look if we could build one from scratch?
SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH: Documents from Interference Archive
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - Sunday, December 16, 2018
Travelling Exhibition on view through December 16, 2018
Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Committed to creating space for open dialogue on current human rights issues, the Gund Gallery features this special exhibition of pamphlets, posters and newspapers produced for the The School of the Americas Watch (SOAW), a nonviolent grassroots movement and the largest Latin American solidarity organization in the United States, which strives to end U.S. militarization, oppressive U.S. policies and other forms of state violence in the Americas. Accompanied by SOAW activists Maria Luisa Rosal and Devora Gonzalez, this exhibition seeks to foster greater understanding and interest among campus and community members about topical issues surrounding the immigration crisis, border control, and US relations with Latin America.