Suzanne Broughel /
Keep Hope Alive Alive
In this work, free “campaign†buttons - vintage designs from past Black presidential candidates- are given out to pedestrians, altered to remove the candidates’ name and image. With only slogans and graphics remaining, these buttons conflate history with the present to become ruminations on race, gender, idealism, and cynicism.
Date:
Saturday and Sunday, October 6 and 7 from 7-8pm, Tuesday, October 9 from 7-8pm, Friday, October 12 from 3-4pm, Saturday and Sunday, October 13 and 14 from 7-8pm
Location:
The performance will take place all across 14th Street.
artist info
Suzanne Broughel is a multidisciplinary artist exploring issues of race. Sifting through history, popular culture and autobiography, she looks at our present moment – post Civil Rights, with our first Black President, yet lacking true equality as sought by social movements of the 60s and 70s.
