Art for the Future: Artists Call and Transnational Solidarity in the 1980s is co-curated by Abigail Satinsky, curator at Tufts University Art Galleries, and Erina Duganne, associate professor of Art History at Texas State University. It focuses on the seminal and largely forgotten 1984 nationwide activist campaign “Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America” that grew out of the friendships, solidarity networks, and political organizing of artists and cultural workers from North and Central America, including artists and curators such as Lucy Lippard, Doug Ashford, Leon Golub, Josely Carvalho, Daniel Flores y Ascencio, Jon Hendricks, and Coosje van Bruggen, among others. To visualize this mobilization against U.S. intervention in Central America – as well as its legacy today – Art for the Future: Artists Call and Transnational Solidarity Since the 1980s will focuses on the friendships and alliances between US and Latin American artists that led to the development of Artists Call. The exhibition will also feature new works by contemporary artists with connections to Central America to show how these activities of the 1980s have served as models—both explicitly and implicitly—for socially engaged artists working between art and politics today.
Art for the Future: Artists Call and Transnational Solidarity in the 1980s
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2007
The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program was launched in 2007 in celebration of the Foundation’s 20th Anniversary. This unprecedented program donated over 28,500 photographs by Andy Warhol to educational institutions across the United States. More than 180 college and university museums, galleries and art collections throughout the nation participated in the program, each receiving a curated selection of original Polaroid photographs and gelatin silver prints.