Daniel Drennan ElAwar is an illustrator, printmaker, and educator currently working as an associate professor of Illustration in the Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada. His work, based in a documentary genre, focuses primarily on issues of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance. His research and practice focused on decolonization and resistance led to the founding of a Beirut-based artists' collective,جمع اليد(Jamaa Al-Yad).He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Frontline Arts, formerly the Printmaking Center of New Jersey

GV Arts Celebration: Graphic Liberation: A Conversation About Culture as a Tool of Transformation

Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 1:30-3:00 pm, free
Louis Armstrong Theater, Haas Center for the Performing Arts
 

Let’s be honest, almost all collective expression is suppressed. 

Josh MacPhee will be joined by some of the most accomplished political graphics makers across the globe—Daniel Drennan ElAwar, Nafisa Ferdous, and others—to discuss the importance of political aesthetics in our society. From the struggle for community power and control by the Black Panther Party, agitation during the AIDS crisis from ACT-UP, the fight against apartheid in South Africa and Palestine, as well as ongoing organizing against nuclear power, fair housing, and international solidarity, social movement culture is a collective tradition people have been practicing for generations. How can you be an active maker of visual culture?