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.”
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