Lowercase P: Artists & Politics
In a campaign year, the media’s focus is mainly on Politics with a capital P and all it entails during the horse race of an election. This series is interested in another kind of politics—the lowercase p concerns about power, inequality, and participation—and ways that artists’ personal values interface with it. At the heart of this project is the firm belief that artists' voices are vital in the conversation about creating a better society.
JoAnn Verburg on Newspapers as Portals to the Political
JoAnn Verburg on Newspapers as Portals to the Political
"The personal and the political are intertwined and inseparable." JoAnn Verburg discusses her use of newspapers—usually printed at life-size and read by her husband—in photographs that are both intimate and incisive, including Terrorized (2006) and WTC (2003), the latter of which is featured in the exhibition Five Ways In: Themes from the Collection.