Join New Art in the Neighborhood (NAN) students for an afternoon of sign-making in conjunction with For Freedoms: The 50 State Initiative. The largest public art initiative in US history, For Freedoms was co-founded by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman to engage artists and arts institutions more fully in public life. The sign-making relates to the “Four Freedoms” articulated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from fear, and freedom from want. The lawn signs will be designed with the phrases, “Freedom of ______” and “Freedom from ______,” and participants are encouraged to complete the phrases as they choose. Visitors may take their signs home, or they can place them in the lot across from the Pulitzer en masse.
This event will be located at the Contemporary Art Museum and is free and open to the public; materials will be provided. For Freedoms lawn signs are also available to visitors at the front desk of the Contemporary Art Museum.
