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Walls of Demand
Exhibit Runs February 8 - April 14, 2019 (Extended)
Special Events
February 8, 2019
Opening and Artist Talk with Margi Weir
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
A Night of Action: Remembering Those Lost to Gun Violence
February 12, 2019
Special Program With Manny & Patricia Oliver
5:30pm - 8:30pm
To see photos, video, and highlights from this event, click here
Artists Manuel and Patricia Oliver, the parents of murdered Parkland student, Joaquin Oliver; activists, elected officials, and student activists honored the victims of gun violence. Manny discussed his art and how it has, and will continue to inspire action.
Center for Contemporary Political Art (CCPART)
916 G Street NW in Washington DC 20001
The Art and Dance of Resistance
January 20, 2019
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
MAIDA WITHERS (USA)
ERICA REBOLLAR (USA)
ANTON OVCHINNIKOV (Ukraine)
Yoko K. Sen, Sound Artist
Center for Contemporary Political Art (CCPART)
916 G Street NW in Washington DC 20001
Congresswoman Jackie Speier
Book Talk: Undaunted
January 9, 2019
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Center for Contemporary Political Art (CCPART)
916 G Street NW in Washington DC 20001
Political Art from the 18th Century to 21st
ON VIEW Dec 6- Jan 20, 2019
Artist/Collector Talk
January 18, 2019
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Matt Sesow
Dana Ellyn
Charles Krause
Paul London
Opening reception
Thursday, December 6, 2018
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Center for Contemporary Political Art (CCPART)
916 G Street NW in Washington DC 20001
Defining Exhibit Closing Reception
Artist Talk: George Kennedy
November 25, 2018
2PM
Center for Contemporary Political Art (CCPART)
916 G Street NW in Washington DC 20001
#ARTOFINJUSTICE Ending Stop & Frisk
Monday, November 19, 2018
6 PM – 8 PM
Center for Contemporary Political Art (CCPART)
916 G Street NW in Washington DC 20001
Reception and Gallery Talk
Eugene Puryear, Stop Police Terror Project
Jean Patrick Icart-Pierre, Gallery Artist
411 Collective, Washington DC Artist Collective
Free Open Mic: The Art of Literary Protest
Friday, November 9, 2018
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Center for Contemporary Political Art (CCPART)
916 G Street NW in Washington DC 20001
Join Poets Sarah Browning (Co-Founder, Split the Rock), Katherine E. Young (inaugural Poet Laureate of Arlington) and Tara Campbell (DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities award-winner) for a reading and open mic. Writers and poets will interact with Jonathan Talbot's "Spin & Win," spinning the wheel and reading a poem or micro-fiction that responds to the call to "resist," "cry," "witness," "rage," etc.
Drink Trump’s Kool-Aid and celebrate delusional thinking!
Sunday, October 28, 2018
2:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Trump's Kool-Aid Tasting, a mobile art event
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: ART OF THE PRANK movie screening and Q&A with Joey Skaggs
Center for Contemporary Political Art (CCPART)
916 G Street NW in Washington DC 20005
Leaving from the Center for Contemporary Political Art (CCPART) at 2:00 pm, the artist and a band of Donald Trump look-alikes wearing Trump masks will take Joey Skaggs’ mobile Trump Kool-Aid Stand to the streets, bringing Trump’s Kool-Aid to the people.
Everyone is invited to participate! Print your own Trump mask here or pick one up from Joey Skaggs at the event.
Trump’s Kool-Aid Tasting is a faux Pro-Trump parade, illustrating and satirizing what Trump represents to the American people. The performance aims to counter voter apathy and motivate people to turn out for the 2018 midterm election.
Check out two previous Joey Skaggs Trump-related actions from 2017 and 2018:
Trump’s Golden Throne and Trump’s Military Parade.
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Later that day, on Sunday, October 28, 2018, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm, come watch ART OF THE PRANK, the 85-minute award-winning feature documentary by Andrea Marini, chronicling the unique journey of Joey Skaggs, a pioneering American artist and activist who created his own form of guerrilla marketing using the media as his medium. Since the 1960s he has made searing and often hilarious social commentary.
Joey Skaggs will do a Q&A after the film.
Guest speaker, Peter Hart
The Art of the Mid Term Elections: How the Visual Impacts Public Opinion
Saturday, October 27
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Artist Talk with Professor David Estlund
On Making and Finding the Political in Art
Friday, October 26
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
When not working as an artist, David is the Lombardo Family professor of philosophy at Brown University and author of Democratic Authority (Princeton University Press).
Defining the Art of Change in the Age of Trump
September 29, 2018
Preview
7PM
September 30, 2018
Opening and Artist Roundtable
11PM
Center for Contemporary Political Art (CCPART)
916 G Street NW in Washington DC 20005