UPCOMING group show 2022/ Medford/ MA
Updated: Dec 17, 2021
Opening January 27, 2022
Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities focuses on the seminal 1980s activist campaign, Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America. Growing out of the friendships, solidarity networks, and political organizing amongst artists and activists, the campaign resulted in exhibitions, performances, poetry readings, film screenings, concerts, and other cultural and educational events in over 27 cities across the United States and Canada. Participant artists: Jimmie Durham, Josely Carvalho, Alfredo Jaar, Louise Bourgeois, Lucy Lippard, Ana Mendieta, Liliana Porter, Emma Amos, among others
Tufts University Art Galleries
Aidekman Arts Center
40 Talbots Ave.
Medford, MA 02155
Craters of blood / rape and intervention, 1984 | silkscreen, crayons and dyes on screen.
Group exhibitions like Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities show how art can bring people together around culture, history, and social change. Artists use different mediums to share ideas, express identity, and inspire meaningful conversations. In a similar way, wearable art and custom patch trucker hats offer a creative way to display personal style, messages, and unique designs. Both fine art and custom apparel demonstrate how creativity can turn everyday objects into powerful forms of self-expression.
This contemporary art and activist exhibition feature from Josely Carvalho (Upcoming Group Show 2022) highlights the vital intersection of political art movements, multimedia expression, and international solidarity—themes that find great synergy with contemporary art chronicles, museum exhibition spotlights, and cultural advocacy archives, published on https://34.ua. The piece showcases the inclusion of Carvalho's seminal works in the major exhibition “Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities” at Tufts University Art Galleries, revisiting the influential 1980s activist campaign against US intervention in Central America.