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Advancing the power of art to educate and inspire people to action
Center for the Study of Political Graphics is Celebrating
35 Years of Art & Resistance!
Please join us on Sunday, June 2, 2024 • 11am
at the Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA 90049
There will be a champagne brunch, silent auction and an awards ceremony recognizing four outstanding honorees engaged in creative resistance — Needed more now than ever!
2024 HONOREES:
2024 Aris & Carolyn Anagnos Culture of Liberation Honoree:
"The world needs more people like Barbra, Someone who is willing to follow her conscience. She is, if the term must be used, a hero." — Bob Dylan
Barbara Dane, is a folk, blues, and jazz singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and political activist. "Bessie Smith in stereo," wrote jazz critic Leonard Feather. “Hot and Cool at the same time,” said Bonnie Raitt. Dane co-founded Paredon Records specializing in international protest music and is now part of Smithsonian Folkways. In 1966, she broke the cultural blockade to Cuba and paid the price.
Photo Credit: Steve Kahn
2024 Art of Resistance Honoree:
"With your passion, you can find your place in the world.”
— Yreina D. Cervántez
Yreina D. Cervántez is a third-generation Chicana working primarily in painting, printmaking, and muralism. Through her art, teaching, and community activism, she has contributed to the discourse on an ever-evolving Chicanx aesthetic. Prominent in her work are issues of environmental justice, immigration and human rights, including themes of Sacred Space, specifically regarding Xicana/Latina agency and the decolonized feminine body.
Photo Credit: Lluvia Higuera
2024 Art is a Hammer Honoree:
“Hazelwood is a contemporary political artist who cuts to the core of corporate capitalism in the early twenty-first century.” —Paul von Blum
Art Hazelwood is an artist, activist, and teacher who creates politically charged prints for arts organizations, unions, and grassroots movements. While teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute, he co-founded the San Francisco Poster Syndicate. He organizes artists to address the struggles of the unhoused and teaches printmaking at San Quentin Prison.
Photo Credit: Dani Toriumi
2024 David Kunzle Historian of the Lions Honoree:
"If I were going to characterize my politics, it would be Marxist Surrealist feminist who is not just anti something but pro-emancipation, pro-liberation. Marxism is anti-capitalist, feminism is anti-patriarchy. But it's also about
re-envisioning our lives in this world."
Robin Kelley, Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA, focuses on grass-roots movements that made a difference, but are not part of the general grand narrative. His research includes the history
of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; black intellectuals; music and visual culture; Surrealism, and Marxism.
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Musical Performance by:
Guitarist Pablo Menéndez was born in Oakland, California and is Barbara Dane’s son. He moved to Cuba in 1966 at age 14 to study music at the National School of Art in Havana and has lived there since. In 1985, he founded and continues to direct Mezcla, a jazz ensemble fusing Afro-Cuban rhythms with yoruba and rock. Mezcla is Carlos Santana’s favorite Cuban band! In his only Los Angeles appearance.
Emcee:
Erin Aubry Kaplan is a contributing writer to the New York Times opinion page and a former weekly op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times, the first African American in the paper’s history to hold that position. She was CSPG’s 2008 Historian of the Lions Honoree.
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