I'm looking forward to hearing a panel for Art + Politics by The Center for the Study of Political Graphicsthis Saturday at one of the local Libraries. It's a discussion of panelists sharing their experiences as political artists from the decade of 1965-1975. The discussion focuses on how they created art that helped build the work of the Anti-War movement, the Black Panther Party, Chicano Moratorium, United Farm Workers, the Women's movements and more.
According to Wikipedia: The Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) was founded in 1989. The archive currently contains more than 60,000 posters and has the largest collection of post-World War 2 social justice posters in the United States and the second largest in the world. Media and techniques represented include offset, lithography, linocut, woodblock, silkscreen, stencil, and photocopy.
These remind me of a workshop I once did on woodblock printing. It's a simple technique of printing and coming up with the drawing is the difficult part. I highly recommend giving it a try!
On a much lighter note and quite off the subject, I recently came across an old song for pop music in the 1980's which has been covered before and since. However strange it may be, it's a danceable song and without noticing, one might believe it's a new song released today. Recently downloaded from iTunes it is:
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| Stacey Q- Two of Hearts |
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| Blast from the Past!! LOL |
