#antiracistart

[s18art]

Weeds Ink on paper. Based on an old ARA flyer I had as a teen(if you know the original artist, please let me know.) Hatred and racism are taught, seeds are planted early, it is up to us to rip them out before they takes over. #ink #drawing #painting #antihate #antiracism #antifascist #art #illustration #antiracist #antiracistart https://www.instagram.com/p/CapzJhxl-To/?utm_medium=tumblr

[red-wedge-feuilleton]

Artists Speak on Baltimore

The city of Baltimore exploded in April. The death of Freddie Gray in police custody precipitated an all-out urban rebellion that shook the city for a week. Any notion that Ferguson, Missouri was somehow a fluke, an aberration, was thrown out the window. Of course, the rebellions in Ferguson since the death of Mike Brown and the protests that followed the non-indictment of the cop who choked Eric Garner to death revealed the real nature of "post-racial" America and gave birth to a movement; nobody who is not in complete denial can look that in the face and say that racism is a non-issue. What was proven the events in Baltimore, which unfolded an hour's drive from the nation's capital, is that the combativeness of Ferguson, the willingness to fight back by any means necessary, was and is widespread. 

Red Wedge approached several artists and cultural workers — visual artists, writers, musicians and poets — and asked them their thoughts on the rebellion. We focused heavily on artists of color and anti-racists, for reasons that should seem obvious. Some of these thoughts were written specially for this piece. Others were appeared elsewhere, either on an artist's blog or social media, and are republished here with permission. Not all of them agree with each other, and some say some things that we on the editorial board may disagree with. But we wish to publish these artists' thoughts to show, in a small way, that the ramifications of Baltimore will be far-reaching, and will in the long run impact the worldview of any creative expression concerned with humanity's future.