For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here?
McKinley Foundation, in partnership with For Freedoms, presents Where Do We Go From Here? Returning to our partnership with For Freedoms in 2019, we once again examine the use of art to encourage and deepen public explorations of freedom in the 21st century and to inject the anti-partisan, critical thinking that fine art requires into the political landscape through programming, exhibitions, and public artworks.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community (1967)And we want to hear from you! You’re invited to fill out one of the blank posters or write and draw directly on the wall. What does freedom looks like to you? Share your hopes and fears for the entire community to see and respond to!
FOR FREEDOMS started in 2016 as a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States. Inspired by Norman Rockwell’s 1943 paintings (on view during the exhibit) of the four universal freedoms articulated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941—freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear—For Freedoms seeks to use art to deepen public discussions of civic issues and core values, and to clarify that citizenship in American society is deepened by participation, not by ideology. For Freedoms is part of a rich history of artists employing means of mass communication to provoke political discourse. For Freedoms believes art, and artists, play an important role in galvanizing our society towards a more representative and transparent government.