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Summer 2018 Billboard: Vaquitas, by Marius Mason

Posted on July 12, 2018 - 12:25 AM by
The Summer 2018 billboard featured a painting by Marius Mason.

The Summer 2018 billboard was a painting by transgender political prisoner Marius Mason, a former Bloomington resident, and currently a transgender political prisoner. A prolific painter and environmental activist, Mason depicted this vaquita- an endangered animal with less than 15 left worldwide, as of March 2018.

You can find out more about Marius Mason here: https://supportmariusmason.org/

You can find out more about the vaquita here: https://defenders.org/vaquita/basic-facts

Spring 2018 Billboard: Juvenile In Justice

Posted on March 12, 2018 - 12:12 AM by
Spring 2018 billboard- Juvenile in Justice, by Richard Ross

Richard Ross’s series on juvenile incarceration was featured on the Spring 2018 Your Art Here billboard. Ross visited Bloomington in conjunction with the billboard, giving a series of speaking engagements on his experiences documenting juvenile detention facilities.

You can see more of Ross’s work on the subject here: http://richardross.net/juvenile-in-justice

LIVE ART: Only Answer the Question Asked

Posted on March 21, 2016 - 8:20 PM by

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See this work live and in person on the north west corner of 6th and Walnut St! If you want, tag us on facebook at Your Art Here when you see it.

There is nothing here about saving children from bleating bombs in religious lands, or even about quote unquote natives screaming at quote unquote illegals to stop taking away veterans benefits. There is nothing here to show disdain for high capacity automatic weaponry being carried into fast-food restaurants scaring the souls of parents needing to explain to their children 2nd amendment rights written 200+ years ago. This is a political statement about political positioning – the positioning of power and privilege — privileged way too much to truly know discomfort and discrimination. Thus and hereby, are the effects of such a position:

This work is disrupting a moment. In direct contact and in the midst of global woes, they seize a time to raise questions beckoning to be answered against that which makes them seem utterly frivolous in comparison. It appears as a distraction; yet, there is an unmeasurable, indirect justice for this object to enter your space and begin making efforts of change. It is part of an unconscious collective made concrete and now exposed, shared and given, injected at times without notice or desire. Its potential will unknowingly arise in others somehow somewhere, to help instigate eventual rise-ups and walk-outs in response to perpetual shut-ups and sit-downs.

KEITH ALLyN SPENCER was born and raised in the American Southwest. He resides with his family in Bloomington, Indiana where he works as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University. He received his MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2011) and a BFA in Painting from the University of Texas at El Paso (2003). #BlackLivesMatter. Recent group exhibitions consist of New Galerie at Yves Klein Archives (Paris), Simon Oldfield Gallery (London), Ditch Projects (Oregon), BigMedium (Austin), and Mixed Greens (NYC). Recent solo shows include The Composing Rooms (Berlin), Welcome Screen (London), Juicys Gallery (NYC), Oliver Francis Gallery (Dallas), Target (Indiana), and Domino’s Pizza (Rhode Island).

See him on the internet at keithallyn.com