a traveling political art show
October 20 - November 28, 2003

Drawing Resistance, a show of two-dimensional artwork by contemporary
artist/activists from across North America, is coming to Victoria at the
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery. This content-based show speaks to the
anti-globalization movement, working class rights, the destruction of the
environment, corporate control, police brutality, homelessness, gentrification
and the Zapatista liberation movement in Mexico.

Like a band on tour, Drawing Resistance is travelling across Canada, the United States and Mexico in a van until 2005. Drawing Resistance, organized by Sue Simensky Bietila (Milwaukee) and Nicolas Lampert (Minneapolis), has no funding and relies solely on the communities hosting the show to transport it to the next site.

Three generations of political art are represented in this exhibit. Chicago
artist, Carlos Cortez is old enough to remember the days of Depression-era
political art; Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper’s storyboard magazine World War 3-Illustrated, along with the legendary punk album-cover art of Winston Smith (Dead Kennedy’s) and John Yates, provide a crucial bridge to the current generation. This exhibit includes watercolours by Domitila Dominguez, street posters by Robbie Conal, spray paint/stencils by Josh MacPhee, and collages by Freddie Baer.

In Victoria the art show will be accompanied by an Anarchist Punk Night at
Vertigo, October 24th, 7:30 - 11:30 pm featuring music by Iskra and Bury What's Dead, and spoken word poetry by Max Sloan, Lisa B, and Ron Sakolsky.

“Drawing Resistance is a bracing, enlivening panorama of radical humanism,
stretched wide by the expansive hopes and traumas of our times. Long may it travel.”
-- William Eisenstein, Urban Ecology

For more information, please contact the Maltwood Publicist at 721-6562,
maltpub@maltwood.uvic.ca, or visit www.maltwood.uvic.ca. For information on the Campus and Community Celebration, please go to celebration2003.uvic.ca/festival.

Publicist
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 3025 STN CSC
Victoria, B.C.
V8W 3P2

Email: maltpub@maltwood.uvic.ca
Ph.: (250) 721-6562
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