For Freedoms

Name: For Freedoms
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SKU: 9781580936620
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Where Do We Go From Here?

By Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas and Michelle Woo and Wyatt Gallery and Taylor Brock

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Founded in 2016 by Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Wyatt Gallery, and Michelle Woo, For Freedoms is an artist-led organisation that uses art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action. With the aim to infuse an anti-partisan, arts-based perspective into the political... Read More

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The first monograph of the hundreds of billboards by artist-led coalition For Freedoms, the largest public creative collaboration in American history

Description

Founded in 2016 by Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Wyatt Gallery, and Michelle Woo, For Freedoms is an artist-led organisation that uses art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action.

With the aim to infuse an anti-partisan, arts-based perspective into the political landscape, For Freedoms has collaborated with thousands of artists, activists, and scholars to create more than 500 evocative billboards that use art as a vehicle to deepen public discussions on civic issues and core values.

This comprehensive volume includes billboards created between 2016-2023 by over 400 established artists, including Derrick Adams, Gina Belafonte, Sanford Biggers, Paula Crown, Shepard Fairey, Theaster Gates, Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Rashid Johnson, JR, Christine Sun Kim, Marilyn Minter, Sofia Gallisa Muriente, Gordon Parks, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Maggie Rogers, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, and Ai Weiwei, among many more.

This new book celebrates how For Freedoms has transformed public commercial space into exhibition space and launched a creative collaboration of epic proportion. Published ahead of the 2024 American presidential election, it also underscores the For Freedoms mission to model how art can urge communities into greater action and participation.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781580936620

Publisher: Monacelli Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 10 October 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Monacelli Press

Illustration: 500 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 228.0mm

Height: 304.0mm

Weight: 2366g

Pages: 360

Collections

Arts & Culture Eric Gottesman Hank Willis Thomas Michelle Woo Non-Fiction Taylor Brock Wyatt Gallery

About the Author

For Freedoms, a modern reimagining of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 Four Freedoms speech, was awarded the National Arts Award by Americans for the Arts (2022); honored with the Art for Justice Visionaries Award by the Bronx Museum of Art (2019); and received the Infinity Award for New Media and Online Platform from the International Center for Photography (2017).

Hank Willis Thomas is a Brooklyn-based conceptual artist whose work focuses on identity, history, and popular culture.

Eric Gottesman is a Washington D.C.-based visual artist whose work addresses nationalism, migration, structural violence, and history.

Michelle Woois Los Angeles-based art producer, art historian, and arts business consultant.

Wyatt Galleryis a Trinidad-based photographic artist who uses his work to spark empathy and curiosity.

taylor brockis a Los Angeles-based creative producer and curator.