“Bitter Border Phantasy of Liberty”, mixed media. 6″x4″x2.5″.
Relocation: Packing up, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.
Submitted by John Sheridan
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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.
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“The Red Ribbon”, white charcoal and colored pencils. 21″x30″.
AIDS Hotline Worker from the AIDS Memorial Quilt collection
Submitted by Onnika Moore
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“Memento Mori: Angel Weathervane” hand-embroidery and appliqué on vintage textileSource: Angel Weather vane from the WPA project presented in “Drawing on America’s Past”
Submitted by Mary M. Mazziotti
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Jessica Mitford, Socialist, Writer, Lawyer, Oakland Resident against challenged American Flag and image of House Committee on Un-American Activities (young Richard Nixon shown sitting on the committee). The Jessica Mitford image is from the LoC photo collection.
Graphite and watercolor, 8″x8″. Submitted by @sandrawongoloff
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Poster for democracy showing the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty.
Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project, [between 1936 and 1940]
LoC sourceWatercolor, ink and colored pencil, 3.5″x5″. Contributed by @photok123
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