Plastic Jesus is the name of a Los Angeles-based street artist. Amid the U.S Presidential campaign of 2016 where Donald Trump pledged to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico to halt illegal immigration, Plastic Jesus built his own version of a wall that surrounded Donald Trump’s star on Hollywood’s famous Walk of Fame…. Read more »
Category: Art Festival
JR and Child Looking Over Border Wall
French street artist JR has been challenging the walls between people for a long time. He recently erected a massive image of a Latin American child looking over the U.S. border wall with Mexico. At a time when the U.S. policies toward immigration have include separating children from families and housing them in over-crowded detention… Read more »
Omar Victor Diop
Omar Victor Diop is an fine arts and fashion photographer from Dakar, Senegal who has a recent series of portraits called Liberty. He explores the global black liberation struggle in a personal way, putting himself in each male role and his friend Khadija Boye posing in the female roles. As he portrayed moments from the… Read more »
Zoe Mulford, Joan Baez and Jeff Scher
Following the 2015 mass shooting at “Mother” Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Zoe Mulford wrote an evocative song about the shooting and President Barak Obama spontaneously singing “Amazing Grace” during the memorial service. Joan Baez included it in what is reported to be her final album “Whistle Down the Wind” released in March… Read more »
Abdalla Al Omari–Leaders as Refugees
Syrian artist Abdalla Al Omari was angry about the pain of his people and the distance and hard-heartedness of world leaders to the plight of those who were vulnerable. He turned his anger into a positive energy to transform perspectives through art. He painted the faces of world leaders and people in privilege and power… Read more »