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Shepard Fairey and Ai Weiwei On Using Art To Fight President Trump

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“A lot of people felt defeated and hopeless by Trump’s election,” Fairey tells the Daily Beast. “But I feel his election should energize people to resist apathy, ignorance, sexism, xenophobia, and racism.”

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Courtesy Shepard Fairey and Ai Weiwei for The Skateroom

Among the colorful poster art from the Women’s March protests, you may have seen the red-white-and-blue face of a Muslim-American woman wearing an American flag hijab--one of a series of inauguration-inspired “We the People” images by graphic artist Shepard

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