Blog

Reclaiming Patriotic Symbols: Who Gets to Hold ...

Reclaiming Patriotic Symbols: Who Gets to Hold the Flag? Patriotic symbols are supposed to be a shortcut to belonging. A flag, an anthem, a familiar set of colors, a slogan...

Early 20th Century Labor Prints: Ink, Grit, and...

Early 20th Century Labor Prints: Ink, Grit, and the Art of the Working Day Before a strike had a hashtag, it had a poster. Before a movement could go viral,...

Crowds as Visual Metaphors for Solidarity

Crowds as Visual Metaphors for Solidarity There is a strange magic to the crowd: it is both ordinary and cinematic. A crowd is just people, after all. Yet the moment...

Visualizing Care and Solidarity: How Kindness B...

Visualizing Care and Solidarity Care is famously hard to photograph. You can capture a hand on a shoulder, a pot on a stove, a volunteer crouched to tie someone’s shoe,...

Labor Banners and Marching Graphics: How Work G...

There is a particular kind of magic in a labor banner. It is not the museum kind, safely framed and politely lit. It is the kind that flaps, wrinkles, and...

Why Walls Become Political Canvases

Why Walls Become Political Canvases Walls are supposed to be quiet. They hold up roofs, separate private from public, and politely refrain from having opinions. And yet, in almost every...