Artist Talk with Ricardo Levins Morales

Name: Artist Talk with Ricardo Levins Morales
Start: 2024-10-22T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 505 Hawley Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States, New York 13203

Schedule

Tue Oct 22 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

505 Hawley Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States, New York 13203 | Syracuse, NY

We now have a date for our Artist Talk with Ricardo Levins Morales. Join us for an evening of conversation with the artist of our current exhibition “ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Posters by Ricardo Levins Morales.” The exhibition explores 55 years of social justice posters from one of the the most celebrated activist poster artists of our time.
Ricardo Levins Morales is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing from the injuries and ongoing reality of oppression.
He was born into the anti-colonial movement in his native Puerto Rico and was drawn into activism in Chicago when his family moved there in 1967.
Ricardo left high school early and worked in various industries, and over time began to use his art as part of his movement work. This activism has included support work for the Black Panthers and Young Lords and participating in or acting in solidarity with farmers, environmental, labor, racial justice, antiwar and other struggles for peoples empowerment. He was a founding member of the Northland Poster Collective (1979-2009).
He also leads workshops on creative organizing, social justice strategy and sustainable activism, and mentors and supports organizers. The worker members of RLM Art Studio are represented by the Newspaper and Communications guild/CWA.
Ricardo’s work is widely used by grassroots movements, organizations and communities.