Enduring Images
Themed Portfolio Exchange organized by Josh MacPhee and Maggie Denk-Leigh
Description
Powerful political graphics can capture, in a single image, the energy of a moment. A number of these graphics also transcend their time, reemerging throughout history and persisting—repurposed over and over again for people's struggles. From Goya to Posada, the Atelier Populaire to Act-Up, artists and designers have created a pantheon on engaged imagery we continue to draw from. Participants are asked to respond to these images—curated by portfolio organizers—in order to produce new printed works expanding this history and conversation through visual narratives.
About the organizers
Maggie Denk-Leigh is an Associate Professor and the Printmaking Department Chair at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. Denk-Leigh is a founding board member, and the current President of the Board at the Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory & Educational Foundation, a hand papermaking and book arts center in Cleveland, Ohio.
Denk-Leigh’s work has recently been exhibited at the Artist Archive of the Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, the Museum of Natural History and Culture in Knoxville, Tennessee; the Shaker Historical Museum in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and the Freedman Gallery at Albright College, in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Denk-Leigh received her BA from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and MFA in Printmaking from Clemson University in South Carolina.
Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY (InterferenceArchive.org).
MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has been designing book covers for many publishers for the past decade. His most recent book is An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels (Common Notions, 2019), a compendium of information about political music and radical cultural production. His forthcoming exhibition project, We Want Everything, will open spring 2022 in Reinberger Gallery at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Participants
Kat Burdine, Lane Cooper, Ryan Craycraft, Maggie Denk-Leigh, Jacob Koestler, Josh MacPhee, Mike Meier, Sarah Paul, Kelly Pontoni, Zak Smoker, Paul Sydorenko
Special Visiting Hours
October 14–16
Friday: Noon–9pm
Saturday: Noon–5pm
Sunday: 10am- 5pm
Location
Reinberger Gallery
Cleveland Institute of Art ground floor
11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland
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