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Poor People’s Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States at USF Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa uses installations and artworks to tell the story of, and expand perspectives on, The Poor People’s Campaign- from its origins in the late 1960s to the present day form, as well as comment on poverty and other social issues. Both educational and engaging, it shows that despite long struggles and some progress, we are still very far from much needed social change, especially in regards to poverty.
The museum also produced a free full color, 48 page workbook that you can pick up there or download as a PDF that can be downloaded from their website.
From the gallery’s website-
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is well known for his “I Have a Dream” speech, yet much less emphasis is placed on his campaign to seek justice for America’s poor, “The Poor People’s Campaign.” This was a multi-cultural, multi-faith, multi-racial movement aimed at uniting poor people and their allies to demand an end to poverty and inequality. Fifty-three years after Dr. King’s death, the Reverend William Barber II launched a contemporary push to fulfill MLK’s ambitious brief — one that calls for a “revolution of values” that unites poor and impacted communities across the country. The exhibition Poor People’s Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States represents a visual response to Dr. King’s “last great dream” as well as Reverend Barber’s recent “National Call for Moral Revival.”
With artworks spanning more than 50 years, the exhibition is divided into two parts: Resurrection (1968-1994) and Revival (1995-2022). Resurrection includes photographs, paintings, prints, videos, sculptures, books, and ephemera made by a radically inclusive company of American artists, from Jill Freedman’s photographs of Resurrection City, the tent enclave that King’s followers erected on the National Mall in 1968, to John Ahearns’ plaster cast sculpture Luis Fuentes, South Bronx (1979). Revival offers contemporary engagement across a range of approaches, materials, and points of view. Conceived in a declared opposition to poverty, racism, militarism, environmental destruction, health inequities, and other interlocking injustices, this exhibition shows how artists in the US have visualized poverty and its myriad knock-on effects since 1968. Participating artists include John Ahearn, Nina Berman, Martha De la Cruz, Jill Freedman, Rico Gatson, Mark Thomas Gibson, Corita Kent, Jason Lazarus, Miguel Luciano, Hiram Maristany, Narsiso Martinez, Adrian Piper, Robert Rauschenberg, Rodrigo Valenzuela, William Villalongo & Shraddha Ramani, and Marie Watt.
From the museum’s wall plaque about the images from the artists above-
A multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, popular culture, and social justice, Miguel Luciano revisits the history of the Young Lords, a revolutionary group of young Puerto Rican activists who organized for social justice in their communities beginning in the late 1960s. Luciano’s first contribution to Poor People’s Art is a vinyl banner from the public art project Mapping Resistance: The Young Lords in El Barrio (2019), a collaboration with artist Hiram Maristany. It features the photograph “Young Lords Member with Pa’lante Newspaper (1970)” by Maristany, who was the official photographer of the Young Lords and a founding member of the New York chapter. This banner, along with nine other enlarged Maristany photographs, were installed throughout East Harlem at the same locations where their history occurred 50 years prior.
Luciano’s second contribution to Poor People’s Art is the sculpture The People’s Pulpit (2022), a repurposed vintage pulpit from the First Spanish Methodist Church in East Harlem. The Young Lords famously took over the church in 1969 and renamed it “The People’s Church”; they hosted free breakfast programs, clothing drives, health screenings, and other community services there. In this exhibition, The People’s Pulpit features an historic recording of Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri reciting the celebrated poem Puerto Rican Obituary during the Young Lord’s takeover of The People’s Church.
The central sculpture in the second photo-
Afro-Taino artist Martha De la Cruz fashioned her sculptural installation Techo de sin (Roof of Without), 2021, from stolen, scavenged and donated materials found in Southwest Florida. According to the artist, “Florida is home to a large population of Latin American migrants who have ended up in the US largely due to economic pressures, exploitation and veins of power etched by Europe and the US.” Her powerful work deals with the results of this disjunction and the “symptoms thereabouts (e.g. houselessness, fugitiv-ity, government corruption, and income disparity, etc.).” According to De la Cruz, the word “sin” is a common Dominican mispronunciation for the word “zinc.” The sculpture is animated by a single light bulb that turns on for just ten minutes a day.
From the wall plaque about the Lazarus installation (structure in the 3th, 5th and 6th photos)-
Jason Lazarus’s sculptural installation Resurrection City/Poor People’s Campaign: A National call for Moral Revival/A Third Reconstruction (2023) is anchored in the artist’s historical research and several key photographs of Resurrection City. A tent-like shelter inspired by the temporary residences that populated the 1968 mass protest, the interactive sculpture contains simple sleeping quarters and a curated library filled with physical literature and ephemera centered on both the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign and the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, co-led by Rev. Dr.William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.
The library allows for audiences to trace, listen, and talk about the history of advocating for the poor, from 1865 to the present. Additionally, the artist provides a custom transcription (and a QR hyperlink) to Barber’s 49-minute address on the syndicated radio show “The Breakfast Club” in which he carefully outlines his powerful vision for how we might address poverty going forward.
About Jill Freedman’s photograph above-
In the spring of 1968, the talented young street photographer Jill Freedman quit her day job as a copywriter in New York City to join the Poor People’s March on Washington. Freedman lived in Resurrection City for the entire six weeks of the encampment’s existence, photographing its residents as they rallied, made speeches, protested in front of government buildings, confronted police, built makeshift kitchens, organized clothing swaps, and dealt with flooding, petty crime, and illness. One of the most important postwar documentarians, and one of the few women photographers of the era, Freedman captured it all. Freedman’s 2017 book, Resurrection City, 1968-from which this exhibition draws a dozen powerful images-showcases the photographs that she made as a participant in the original Poor People’s Campaign. In multiple ways, Freedman’s images are the sympathetic perch upon much of which much of the present exhibition loosely hangs.
This exhibition closes 3/4/23.
#usf contemporary art museum#tampa art shows#poor people's campaign#poor people's art#miguel luciano#hiram maristany#martha de la cruz#jill freedman#narsiso martinez#jason lazarus#art installation#social issues#art#art shows#poverty#mark thomas gibson#rico gatson#florida art shows#photography#sculpture#drawing
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#lingi's art.#spoiler#dc#dc fanart#dc comics#jason todd#red hood#batman 148#Finally have the chance to draw this meme#People complain about his new suit but I kinda like it...#poor jason
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it's not too late for a summer beach episode, is it? 🥲
#waaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!#lol momo and mina def diligent about the SPF lol#bakugo trying so hard to keep the shirt on but it's HOT lol and kiri's hero suit gives him a wicked tan haha#the saltwater dries out poor tsu but she's happy to play in the water with friends!!!!#izuku just............ lol#todoroki and iida are honorary beach hunks#lol tell me why i want more MHA filler eps PLEASE#mha#bnha#mha art#bnha art#izuku midoriya#deku#katsuki bakugo#eijiro kirishima#shouto todoroki#ochako uraraka#mina ashido#tsuyu asui#momo yaoyorozu#jirou kyouka#denki kaminari#kamijiroo#my hero academia art#my hero academia#i feel like i'm forgetting people but i can't look back lmao#boku no hero fanart#pjseveryday#illustration#anime art
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doodles from today cause i had a thought: water tribe dragon-blood boy who despite every attempt could not hide his true nature, and fire nation dragon-blood boy who despite every attempt could never take full dragon form
sokka maims himself in an attempt to look more human, breaking off his own horns, cutting his ears, picking at his scales, but everyone sees what he really is. the dragons were responsible for so much death and destruction and he hates being their kind, and so he runs. meanwhile, being able to embrace the dragon in him is all zuko ever wanted, his royal bloodline expecting it of him, but he fails and he fails and is humiliated, tortured, and cast out for his weakness.
on the shores they meet.
or something! :)
#zukka#blee arts#sokka having dragon blood could be from parentage but really#i kind of imagined it as a 'curse'#not really a curse but like#big battle; dragons killing; water tribe fighting back#and a dying dragon with no kin chooses to save kaya's life in order to pass on its bloodline through her firstborn#of course his parents love him katara loves him but his people arent exactly keen on having a dragon in the village#and poor young little sokka has very little control going in and out of his dragon state#and he cant hide it in human form
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Sequel to Sunshade
#my art#warrior nun#wn fanart#avatrice#still set in:#au where they get to go home and take a nap at the end of s2#Ig I felt bad I drew a fluffy snuggling scene and still didn’t let poor B rest#my painting ‘sunshade’ is structured around a visual pun#(cause people call B a ‘sunshine protector’ and funny if more literal)#but what makes avt so good is how A coaxes B out of the protector role and A is given space to not always be sunny#the sunshine protector/knight-princess dynamic is exhausting for both parties (which is why JC/ Ava doesn’t work)#so here’s the natural follow up#couldn’t think of a good pun for the caption though. Moonshine?#I actually really enjoy where the series left off. Their relationship is thematically complete.#(<- Burying this deep in the tags because I know nobody agrees with me)#imerr fanart#me: I’m totally over WN — also me:
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Imagine building a family in a terrible world. Some of you die sooner, and you try to make it work. Then everyone, everything is gone, you have less than a minute to process that, and you're alone. Except it's worse! Because your family will be there, but suddenly you're not part of it. The house is in front of you and you don't have the keys.
#This scene was played off a bit for the laughs but seriously?#Casey had just lost everyone and everything#And now he's alienated in a new world with the people he's used to existing with#Imagine seeing the house right there#except you dont have the keys. the curtains are drawn open so you can see everything inside. but you just#dont have the keys#(yet)#anyway We love casey jones in this household#also?? uncletello for the win#the poor guy just doesnt know it yet#my art#artwork#wip#painting#digital painting#rottmnt#casey jones#casey jones junior#the future boy#casey#future casey#rottmnt casey#casey jones#rottmnt casey jr#rottmnt donnie#rottmnt fanart#rottmnt fandom#donatello rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles art#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles
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what was supposed to just be pavitr and meera jain spiralled into a LOT of spiders in formalwear/red carpet outfits.... most of them referenced off met gala outfits and then adjusted to suit my own tastes LOL
#atsv#itsv#spider-man#my art#particularly i reffed zendaya's outfit from when she wore that sari for meera. and then a jj valaya look for pavitr :)#i think it was mbj with noir's but its a poor copy. also felicia and noir are subtly matching :)#AND GWEN. IS WEARING . ONE OF TIMOTHEE CHALAMET'S MET GALA OUTFITS LMFMFFAAOOOOOOOO#spiderman#meera jain#pavitr prabhakar#gwen stacy#miles morales#peter b parker#mary jane watson#mayday parker#there are. so many actually .#i cant do it . i wont tag that many people im sorry#also meera jain is very much based off of aishwarya rai. and also she dyes her hair with henna. thats why i drew this i just#could not get it out of my head !!! pavitr i love you!!!!!!!!!!!#i also apologise in advance for the kind of person i will become when i get him in atsv. the south asian agenda is very real
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#this is inspired by a dream i had that i found quite poignant when applied to the real world#and it's hostility and slowly creeping illegality of simply existing in public space#and was a very fun activity using paint.net's 3d pane tool which i had totally forgotten was literally a base program tool#i also feel pretty proud of the “Our City Safe” slogan with it's implied hostility by saying it's OUR city#and we're keeping it safe from YOU#you being poor/homeless/lower class/minorities/not actively benefitting from capitalism people#i think it says a lot in very little words#my art#my creation#hostile architecture#anticapitalism#third space#street sign
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travel troubles
#pre game! yay#if things take any minute longer Bonnie Will start attempting to blow people up with their mind#(isa is aware that he shall be the first casualty)#at first i thought this was a shopping trip taken too far but i think Bonbon would actually be into that#so they are probably trying to get a room at an inn#odile is offscreen about to murder some poor sap because she would not fit nto the composition very sad very tragic#isat spoilers#minor but still#isat#in stars and time#isat isabeau#isat mirabelle#isat bonnie#isat siffrin#based on real true events (me being impatient and my father refusing to fight me to pass the time)#my art
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A walking, talking, Major Character Death waahah!
#kamen rider#kamen rider ghost#fan art#i couldn't sleep so have some shitposts lakfjaewlfka#and also ore damashii... original form best form#been a while since I watched something that was easy to make so so silly waaahah!#hi specter and your beautiful beautiful face...#what a handsome mask#poor Akari didn't read the show's title when she said “unscientific things such as ghosts don't exist.”#sorry girlie... i love you waahaha#sorry i forgot to draw your legs takeru...#yoshiko yoshiko queen of forgetting to draw people's legs...#drawinnnnnn' at fooouuuUURUURRRRR in the mornNNiNnnGgghhhhh
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There’s a new Pokémon added almost every week
#submas#ingo#emmet#subway boss emmet#subway boss ingo#battle subway#gear station#pokemon#people think pokemon like shaymin are allowed on the subway#in fact pokemon like shaymin are not allowed on the subway#tho some legendaries are which confuses me#however I have many ideas still#and will make more comics#probably not coloured#tho#the poor board is almost too full from pokemon they’ve had to ban#art#fan art#procreate art#comic
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If you are an American artist/fan, change your pixiv account region! Because there's new censorship
Number 5. If your drawing has no 'educational/scientific/artistic value' it won't be allowed to exist. These new censorship are absolute nonsense pushed by credit card company and conservative politicians. Fucking bonkers
It's the same thing when Tumblr banned NSFW and they promised that 'artistic nudity' will still be 'allowed'. I hope every purist on the internet realized that when they whine over anime fan art they are repeating what conservative billionaires and politician are pushing:
The death of art...
#pixiv#art#fan art#censorship#capitalism#this is corporate puritanism#I'm not joking#first it was patreon then gumroad noa this#puritanism#politics#twitter#news#Also the poor and queer can't even express themselves or jack off anymore because rich people and politician said nooooo#anime#uk#usa#japan
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Warriors, finding out that he is the least favourite Link once again.
#linked universe#linkeduniverse#my art#lu warriors#this poor guy#my poor baby#what does he have to do to make people appreciate him
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pull yourself together.
read updates early on patreon
#ghosts love language is giving people his spare masks#i think he understood instantly#the moment he saw konig with his hood off with /that/ look in his eyes#ghost is blunt and doesnt mince words but i think hes a softie at heart#and soap just wears his heart on his sleeve#this is the comic where konig officially falls stupidly hard for both of them#poor sap#oh also in terms of continuity yes im aware the knife swaps direction#thats what i get for drawing this across multiple days#anyway#thanks for reading!#konig#simon ghost riley#john soap mactavish#cod mw2#soapbox#soapbox saga#giragi art
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a bit of audience participation can go a long way!
#bun arts#danganronpa#k1-b0#drv3 keebo#drv3#danganronpa fanart#his argument armament did things to my psyche.. god. poor guy#i have a lot of thoughts and feelings about keebo#the fact that his A.A. has him in chains being yanked around... he spent the entire game being thrown around like a toy.#and then in ch6 it happens again. god....#i dont really see people talk abt keebo a lot outside of jokes and its sad because he is such a brilliant character#we should talk about keebo more
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Because who could go against the will of god?
#my art#art#pokemon#pokemon legends arceus#arceus#warden ingo#rei pokemon#akari pokemon#it really is fucked up what arceus does to these people#they get transported to the past#forced to fill a role they didnt ask to be a part of#and never once are they promised a way back home#poor ingo lost his memories#so he doesnt even get to know what home was like#genuinely why is arceus such a dick in this game
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