‘Strikethrough!’ protest art showcases Bay Area’s revolutionary political history

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In a Special to The Examiner, Max Blue features Lett_Arc's 'Strikethrough! Typographic Messages of Protest,' an exhibit which Blue says is 'a testament to the extent of the Bay Area’s revolutionary political history.' 👇 Read more

From the Black Panthers and LBGTQ+ movement, to the Summer of Love and punk music, counterculture has long defined the Bay Area — and posters, buttons, zines and newspapers have always been a means for disseminating these progressive and dissenting ideologies.

Posters and covers for The Black Panther newspaper designed by Emory Douglas, former minister of culture for the Black Panther Party, shine for their graphic, illustrative quality and as an example of the disseminated nature of protest graphics. Unattributed designs from the Berkeley Political Poster Workshop also fit this bill. In one, a vibrant illustration of an emaciated child with the large statement “hunger is violence” stands out starkly on a sheet of repurposed dot-matrix paper.

Mariah is an augmented reality app created by artists Adam DelMarcelle and Heather Snyder Quinn. Apps like this have been cropping up a lot in the art world lately, to hokey results: Aim your phone camera at an empty pedestal and a moving sculpture appears in virtual space. Mariah is a welcome exception.

 

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