PERSPECTIVES ON IMAGE MAKING AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS
Organized by Josh MacPhee, the 2020/21 Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Art and Art History at Colgate University.
A series of live conversations between Josh MacPhee, Colgate students, and distinguished political graphics producers, exploring
the role of culture in social movements and the history and evolutionary usage of political graphics.
Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, a decentralized
group of political artists from the US, Canada, and Mexico, and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials
produced by social movements, based in Brooklyn, NY. MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Signs
of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture.
Emory Douglas worked as the revolutionary artist and minister of culture for the Black Panther
Party in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1967 through the early 1980s. In addition to creating
iconic posters and postcards, a key part of Douglas’ responsibilities included art direction, design,
and illustration for the organization’s newspaper, The Black Panther. Douglas’ work has been
the subject of numerous international exhibitions at the 2008 Biennale of Sydney; Museum of
Contemporary Art (Los Angeles); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco); The African
American Art & Culture Complex (San Francisco); and the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New
York), among others. In 2015, Douglas received the American Institute of Graphic Art lifetime achievement medal.
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