New Book: “Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities” (2022)

Left: Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities (2022). Right: Cover image of Artists Call 1984 march and banners, photo by Dona Ann McAdams

LEFT: Cover of “Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities” (2022). RIGHT: Image featured on the cover of “Art of the Future” depicting an Artists Call 1984 march with banners, photo by Dona Ann McAdams.


Art for the Future (2022)
Interior spread: “Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities” p.6-7 (2022) LEFT: Postcard announcement with image by Jesús Romeo Galdámez, ¡Luchar! An Exhibition for the People of Central America, El Taller Latino Americano, New York, 1982. RIGHT: Film still, Soho Television Presents: Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention In Central America with guests Leon Golub, Doug Ashford, and Lucy R. Lippard; moderated by Traci Sampson, 1984.

I'm very excited and honored to be included in “Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities”. This new book by editors Erina Duganne and Abigail Satinsky presents an in-depth historical and contemporary reflection on the 1980s campaign Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America. I will be sharing the pages of this book with these important friends and figures in the American art/activist tradition: Doug Ashford, Lucy Lippard, Sabra Moore, Martha Rosler, Hans Haacke, Josely Carvalho, Gregory Sholette and Coosje van Bruggen, the late Jimmie Durham, Josh MacPhee, Naeem Mohaiemen, Carlos Motta, Maria Thereza Alves, Josh Rios and many more!!!

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This book is being published in conjunction with the exhibition Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities at Tufts University Art Galleries, January 20–April 24, 2022, and is available for pre-order from Inventory Press: www.inventorypress.com/product/art-for-the-future

 

Art for the Future

Interior spread:“Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities” p.2-3 (2022) LEFT: Jon Hendricks, Artists Poster Committee of Art Workers Coalition, Call for Work for People's Flag Show, 1970. Paper, 35 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches.. RIGHT: Enrique Castro-Cid and Artists Poster Committee of Art Workers Coalition, Chile Emergency Exhibition, 1974. Paper, 26 1/16 x 20 inches.