Here are images from the openign of the show, Battle Emblems, which took place from February 1 - March 25, 2006 @ Intersections for the Arts, San Francisco. The show featured new work by Dan Hamaguchi, Choppy Oshiro, Mark Pearsall, Yaeger Moravia Rosenberg, Jessica Tully, Marcelo Viana and myself, Favianna Rodriguez, with material from the AOUON Archives.
This new exhibition takes a look back to a thrust in the history of graphic arts that envisioned and generated symbols to encapsulate the ideas, beliefs, and goals of various social movements of the last century, with a focus on the past forty years. By juxtaposing a historical survey of some of the most enduring and important symbols of these movements, as well as some lesser known graphics from labor and union movements with new work created by local artists and designers, our hope is to educate and inspire conversation about the role that art can play in helping to define and mobilize action and change today.
For my piece of the gallery, I developed an installation based on the book I am working on, "Reproduce & Revolt: A Graphic Toolbox for the 21st Century Activist." Reproduce and Revolt! is a graphic toolbox to be launched into the hands of political activists all over the world. The book will contain over 300 new and exciting high-quality black & white illustrations and graphics about social justice and political activism for activists to use on flyers, posters, t-shirts, brochures, stencils or any other graphic aspects of political campaigns. All the graphics will be bold and easy to reproduce, in addition to being royalty-free/open source/anti-copyright/creative commons.
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