WISH WALL MURAL. "Further the Dream," Martin Luther King, Jr.
School, Cambridge, MA There are a few different types of wall paintings that you'll see when you walk around a city. For example, there are wall murals, graffiti, and places where graffiti has been painted over, which I'll call "cover-ups. " Let's look at murals first. Illustrator revamps Marvel Dust character. Why art is important. A Profile of Harmonia Rosales. Painting the town: Philly's artful murals. The Street Artist Bringing Civil Rights Icons to Life. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrated in street art across the United States. The pieces of artwork stretch the length and breadth of America, from Chicago to Los Angeles to New York, and give a real indication of the lasting legacy of King on America and its citizens.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights activist who became synonymous with the civil rights movement in America following his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. After leading more than 250,000 people in the ‘March on Washington’, a peaceful protest march aimed at highlighting the discrimination African Americans were still facing in the United States nearly 100 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, King gave his famous 'I have a dream' speech. King was tragically assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis on 4 April 1968 while supporting a group of local African American workers on strike. All images: Mediadrumworld.com. St. Louis Galleries Put On an Art-Show Memorial for Michael Brown. Can Art Be a Form of Political Activism? THE IMPACT OF THE DESIGN WORLD. Design has arguably been used as a vehicle and tool to express current political, cultural, social and creative issues, trends and occurrences.
Described as an emblem of representing our historical past, the poster has become a valuable object of communication. Poster created by Shepard Fairey In recent times, Shepard Fairey, the designer behind the iconic Obama poster, has adapted the same posterised colour palette and style with different subjects in response to president Trump’s inauguration. The American designer who was commissioned by non-profit organisation Amplifier Foundation along with other artists, were at the centre of a Kickstarter campaign that managed to raise over $1.3 million (£1 million) in little over a week.
The “We Are the People” collection of images act in solidarity against the recent travel ban on seven Muslim countries. Poster created by Ernesto Yerena Poster created by Jessica Sabogal Fairey. Sabogal. Yernea. Shepard Fairey's inauguration poster: The meaning behind the 'We the People' art. Check out this artwork commissioned by Amplifier Foundation to, "disrupt the rising tide of hate and fear in America" Emily Drooby (@emilydrooby) has the story.
Buzz60 Eight years after the red-white-and-blue "HOPE" poster of Barack Obama, that promise of change that united millions of voters might feel like a distant memory — especially after such a bitterly divisive presidential campaign led by billionaire Donald Trump. Progressives have a new poster child, or series of poster children, for hope. It's not President-elect Trump or his cabinet picks, but a diverse cast of Americans featured in the "We the People" art campaign. "We the People” has traditionally meant ‘everybody’; all of us," said Jessica Sabogal, a Colombian-American muralist involved in the campaign. Sabogal joined Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the 2008 Obama poster, and others commissioned by the Amplifier Foundation, a progressive coalition of activists and artists. Downloadable prints also will be available online. Derf Backderf on censorship, counterculture & ‘My Friend Dahmer’ John “Derf” Backderf — the graphic novelist who wrote My Friend Dahmer, Trashed and the comic strip, The City — visited us earlier this month.
Derf also allowed us to interview him. He discussed: getting fired from his first job “for general tastelessness.”counterculture (In Derf’s words: “I don’t know if there is a counterculture anymore, frankly… The mainstream just erased that gap because they thought they could exploit it and they did.comics (In Derf’s words: “Right now, it’s the golden era of comics. I’m not talking about the superdude stuff. That’s boring corporate product.”)telling the autobiographical story of going to high school with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Visit our YouTube channel for more author interviews. Shepard Fairy, the Artist Behind the Iconic Barack Obama Campaign and Official Inauguration Poster.
Shepard Fairey Talks "Hope", "Obey" & Art.