For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here?
McKinley Foundation, inspired by 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 is an artist-led organization that centers art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action. Founded in 2016 by a coalition of artists including Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Michelle Woo, and Wyatt Gallery, For Freedoms is dedicated to fostering an environment of listening, healing, and justice through a wide range of creative engagement. For Freedoms works closely with a variety of artists, organizations, institutions and brands to expand what participation in a democracy looks like and reshape conversations about politics.
For Freedoms was 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.