Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities

Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities focuses on the seminal 1980s activist campaign, Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America. Growing out of the friendships, solidarity networks, and political organizing amongst artists and activists such as Daniel Flores y Ascencio, Lucy Lippard, Doug Ashford, Leon Golub, and Coosje van Bruggen, the campaign resulted in exhibitions, performances, poetry readings, film screenings, concerts, and other cultural and educational events in over 27 cities across the United States and Canada. The exhibition highlights Artists Call’s history through a selection of activities and works from the 31 exhibitions and over 1,100 artists who participated in New York City and references Artists Call’s legacy today in new forms of inter-American solidarity networks and visual alliances. This exhibition is the first cross-campus presentation by Tufts University Art Galleries.

Arte para el Futuro: Artists Call y solidaridades centroamericanas, se centra en la campaña activista de la década de 1980, Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America. La campaña, que surgió de las amistades, las redes de solidaridad y la organización política de artistas y activistas como Daniel Flores y Ascencio, Lucy Lippard, Doug Ashford, Leon Golub y Coosje van Bruggen, dio lugar a exposiciones, performances, lecturas de poesía, proyecciones de películas, conciertos y otros actos culturales y educativos en más de veintisiete ciudades de Estados Unidos y Canadá. La exposición reúne más de 100 obras de arte que ponen de relieve la historia de Artists Call a través de una selección de actividades y obras de las treinta y una exposiciones y de los más de 1.100 artistas que participaron en la ciudad de Nueva York, y hace referencia al legado de Artists Call hoy en día en nuevas formas de redes de solidaridad interamericana y alianzas visuales con obras de artistas contemporáneos.

Organized by Erina Duganne, Associate Professor of Art History, Texas State University and Abigail Satinsky, TUAG Curator & Head of Public Engagement. A fully illustrated, bilingual English-Spanish catalogue co-published by Inventory Press & Tufts University Art Galleries will be available in February 2022. Support for the exhibition, its catalogue, and related programming was provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), Tufts University AS&E Diversity Fund, Tufts University Toupin-Bolwell Fund, and Tufts University Department of the History of Art and Architecture.