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.
Avram Finkelstein is a founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives. He has
work in the permanent collections of MoMA, The Whitney, The New Museum and The Brooklyn
Museum. He is featured in the artist oral history project at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American
Art, and his book for UC Press, After Silence: A History of AIDS Through its Images was nominated for
an International Center of Photography Infinity Award in Critical Writing and Research.
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