March 23 – August 6, 2023
Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities focuses on the seminal 1980s activist campaign, Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America. Growing out of the friendships, solidarity networks, and political organizing amongst artists and activists such as Daniel Flores y Ascencio, Lucy Lippard, Doug Ashford, Leon Golub, and Coosje van Bruggen, the campaign resulted in exhibitions, performances, poetry readings, film screenings, concerts, and other cultural and educational events in over 27 cities across the United States and Canada, including Chicago. The exhibition highlights Artists Call’s history through a selection of activities and works from the 31 exhibitions and over 1,100 artists who participated in New York City and references Artists Call’s legacy today in new forms of inter-American solidarity networks and visual alliances.
This exhibition is organized by Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) and curated by Erina Duganne, Associate Professor of Art History, Texas State University and Abigail Satinsky, TUAG Curator & Head of Public Engagement. A fully illustrated, bilingual English-Spanish catalogue co-published by Inventory Press & Tufts University Art Galleries, is available at
http://www.inventorypress.com.
Major support for the exhibition and catalogue was provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).
Arte para el Futuro: Artists Call y solidaridades centroamericanas, se centra en la campaña activista de la década de 1980, Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America. La campaña, que surgió de las amistades, las redes de solidaridad y la organización política de artistas y activistas como Daniel Flores y Ascencio, Lucy Lippard, Doug Ashford, Leon Golub y Coosje van Bruggen, dio lugar a exposiciones, performances, lecturas de poesía, proyecciones de películas, conciertos y otros actos culturales y educativos en más de veintisiete ciudades de Estados Unidos y Canadá, incluido Chicago. La exposición reúne más de 100 obras de arte que ponen de relieve la historia de Artists Call a través de una selección de actividades y obras de las treinta y una exposiciones y de los más de 1.100 artistas que participaron en la ciudad de Nueva York, y hace referencia al legado de Artists Call hoy en día en nuevas formas de redes de solidaridad interamericana y alianzas visuales con obras de artistas contemporáneos.
Esta exposición es organizada por Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) y curada por Erina Duganne, profesora asociada de historia del arte, Universidada estatal de Texas y Abigail Satinksy, curadora y jefa de compromiso público de TUAG. Un catálogo bilingüe inglés-español completamente ilustrado, coeditado por Inventory Press y Tufts University Art Galleries, está disponible en http://www.inventorypress.com.Image credits:
1. Dona Ann McAdams,
Procession for Peace with Artists Call banner, New York City, 1984. Silver gelatin print. Courtesy of the artist.
2. Installation view, Artists Call benefit exhibition, Judson Memorial Church, New York, 1984. Courtesy Lucy R. Lippard.
3. Leon Golub, merc., 1984. Lithograph, composition (irreg.): 24 5/16 × 22 5/16 inches; sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 5/16 inches. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY. This work was exhibited in the Artists Call Benefit exhibition at Judson Memorial Church in New York and in the Benefit Print Editions by Five Artists at Marion Goodman Gallery in New York.
4. Susan Meiselas, EL SALVADOR, Arcatao, Chalatenango province, 1980. "Mano blanca," signature of the death squads left on the door of a slain peasant organizer. Photographic print, 20 x 24 inches unframed. Courtesy of the artist. This work was exhibited in From Central America at Central Hall Artists Gallery in New York.