October 11, 2024

Civics

'Creativity can shift immutable systems.'

Lorraine O'Grady's Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are (2018) in Springfield, Massachusetts 50 State Initiative Photo: Clifford Pickett and Alyssa Meadows

Lorraine O'Grady's Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are (2018) in Springfield, Massachusetts 50 State Initiative Photo: Clifford Pickett and Alyssa Meadows

Lorraine O'Grady's Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are (2018) in Springfield, Massachusetts 50 State Initiative Photo: Clifford Pickett and Alyssa Meadows

"A monograph dedicated to artist billboards shown across America in the past few years—some of them bearing political and topical messages—is timely. The organization behind the billboards, For Freedoms, was founded in 2016 by a group of artists including Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman. A new publication includes 550 artist billboards created between 2016 and 2023, by the likes of the Guerrilla Girls, Lorraine O’Grady, Ai Weiwei and Emily Hanako Momohara." - Gareth Harris

For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here?, Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman and others, Monacelli Press/For Freedoms,

ARTICLE: In Pictures | Artist Billboards Across America Tell a Story of US Politics Today

Civics

The news feels hopeless; my neighborhood doesn't.

ARTICLE: The Antidote to Despair Is Finding our Role in Community Building

Civics

How shared hardship reveals our innate capacity for belonging, agency, and interdependence

Book: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Civics

"Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war."

INTERVIEW: Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

Civics

What does it take for a society to grow?

BOOK: A Way of Being