Posts about Social Change

Dorothea Lange’s "Migrant Mother" (1936)

USA Artists: We Are On Our Own

Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother (1936) portrays Florence Owens Thompson during the Great Depression, symbolizing both individual struggle and society’s[…]

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Art, Identity, and the Search for Belonging

Shown above, detail from Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, 1942. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Art Institute of[…]

Vivien Leigh as Blanch DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire," Warner Bros. Pictures (1951)

Denial doesn’t save us

How do artists craft magic that doesn’t erase reality, but illuminates it? In “A Streetcar Named Desire,”[…]

Resist or rebel?

Resist or rebel?

At this point in history, does art activism need to be less about resistance and more about[…]