For Freedoms State Initiative to Commence on VCFA Campus Sunday, 9/30

The event will actively engage the local community in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms: affirming the inalienable human rights of freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

The signs produced during the event will be created and placed on display on the VCFA college green. All materials provided for participants and all are welcome.

Following the sign-making event, a panel discussion will be held with artists, social activists, and educators on the topic of the role of art & contemporary democracy.

GUESTS:

Una Lee is a graphic designer, community-led design facilitator, and community organizer. Lee is the creative director of And Also Too, a design studio for social justice visionaries. She has worked with and within communities across Canada, the U.S., and Mexico to draw on the brilliance, wisdom, and creativity of those directly affected by urgent social issues.

Mildred Beltré is a Brooklyn-based artist on the faculty at UVM and American multi-disciplinary artist known for activist works which focus on how social justice and grassroots movements might reconfigure society. She is a co-founder of the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine.

About For Freedoms

For Freedoms started in 2016 as a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States. Inspired by Norman Rockwell’s 1943 paintings of the four universal freedoms articulated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941 — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear — For Freedoms seeks to use art to deepen public discussions of civic issues and core values, and to clarify that citizenship in American society is deepened by participation, not by ideology.