| About the Exhibition
Opening reception: Second Thursday, July 8, 6 - 9 pm
Teens Revolt: What's On Our Minds is an exhibition
of original silkscreen posters created by Parkway Northwest
High School students through Spiral Q’s Education Initiatives.
Inspired by the use of posters in the South African anti-apartheid
movement, students designed and printed posters that make
bold statments about "what's on their minds."
This March, Spiral Q traveled to South Africa to meet with
artists who were at the center of the anti-apartheid poster
movement. Culture and Resistance: South Africa,
Then and Now displays images, interviews, and
anecdotes from Spiral Q’s trip, and tells the story
of the courageous artists who dedicated their lives and work
to the struggle for freedom. The exhibit highlights the role
of the Medu Art Ensemble and Community Arts Project, two South
African collectives of artists and cultural workers.
This program is part of Art in Resistance, Spiral
Q's study and celebration of art's historic and ongoing role
as a liberating force in justice movements throughout the
world. It has been supported in part by the Pennsylvania Humanities
Council, the Federal-State Partner of the National Endowment
for the Humanities.
About the Gallery
NEXUS/Foundation for Today's Art was established in 1975 as
an artist-run, non-profit, non-collecting exhibition space.
The Nexus mission is to showcase challenging, innovative,
and compelling contemporary art within a context intended
to stimulate creative thought and dialog both among our artist
membership and within the community at large.
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