Red Lines & Death Vows
These 9 posters were originally produced as lightboxes for Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center, an exhibition I designed about the politics of mortgages, held at the Queens Museum of Art in the summer of 2009.
The posters attempt to cover the basic facts shaping the American system of financing housing, a story of technological innovation, financial exploitation, social engineering, market power, racist hardwiring, and full of brave attempts by everyday people to strengthen the role democracy in the functioning of the economy.
Next, I’d like to put them in bus stops.
Read more:
damon.anothercupdevelopment.org
http://rwor.org/a/174/redlining-en.html
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Queens-NY/Red-Lines-Housing-Crisis-Learning-Center/86376355770
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Art Work is a newspaper and accompanying website that consists of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics, and others on the topic of working within depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property. The newspaper is distributed for free at sites and from people throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. It is also available by mail order from Half Letter Press for the cost of postage.
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Major support for SPACES is provided by The Cleveland Foundation; Cuyahoga Arts and Culture; The George Gund Foundation; Donna and Stewart Kohl; Kulas Foundation; Toby Devan Lewis; National Endowment for the Arts; Nimoy Foundation; and the Ohio Arts Council.
Art Work is partly funded by Lauren Rich Fine & Gary Giller and the John P. Murphy Foundation.
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