Level A Exhibit Gallery
The Level A Exhibit Gallery is located on Level A of Raether Library & Information Technology Center (RITC), across from the Watkinson Library.
Current Exhibit:
Celebrate People’s History, Organized and Curated by Josh MacPhee, Arranged and Presented by Eric Johnson-DeBaufre and Christina Bleyer
From the artist: “The Celebrate People’s History posters are rooted in this do-it-yourself tradition of mass-produced and distributed political propaganda but detoured to embody principles of democracy, inclusion, and group participation in the writing and interpretation of history. It’s rare today that a political poster is celebratory, and when it is, it almost always focuses on a small canon of male individuals: MLK, Gandhi, Che, or Mandela. Rather than create another exclusive set of heroes, I’ve generated a diverse set of posters that bring to life successful moments in the history of social justice struggles. To that end, I’ve asked artists and designers to find events, groups, and people who have moved forward the collective struggle of humanity to create a more equitable and just world. The posters tell stories from the subjective position of the artists and are often the stories of underdogs, those written out of history. The goal of this project is not to tell a definitive history, but to suggest a new relationship to the past.”
To learn more about Josh MacPhee, please visit his website. To learn more about the Celebrate People’s History Poster Series (including the full list of prints), please visit Booklyn’s website.