This is an online exhibition with an in person show to take place next year that pushes back against the current administration’s troubling drive to whitewash and erase parts of our nation’s history. 
It invites artists to revisit and reinterpret those threatened images, keeping their stories alive and visible when they’re most in danger of being erased.

Poster for democracy showing the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty.
Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project, [between 1936 and 1940]

LoC source

Watercolor, ink and colored pencil, 3.5″x5″. Contributed by @photok123

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