NAN GOLDIN (@nangoldinstudio) and her colleagues founded the group P.A.I.N. Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (@sacklerpain) in response to the OPIOID CRISIS. They are committed to making the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma responsible for helping to end America’s opioid epidemic. They campaign for treatment funding and education and to correct the misinformation regarding opioids. They intend to put pressure on museums, art spaces, and educational institutions to refuse future donations from the Sacklers. They aim to hold the Sacklers accountable, and to put social and political pressure on them to respond meaningfully to this epidemic.

Artists ZOE BUCKMAN (#zoebuckman) and HANK WILLIS THOMAS (#hankwillisthomas) draw attention to EQUAL VOTING opportunities, rights, and empowerment for all American adults to combat the many attempts to disempower both women and people of color in America. Buckman recently became a citizen after living in America for over a decade. What does it mean to be an American, and how do we engage in democracy?

South African multi-media artist CANDICE BREITZ aims to tear down stigmas and laws which prohibit safe sex work and advocates SEX WORK RIGHTS though her art work. Breitz works with SWEAT which stands for Sex Workers Education & Advocacy Taskforce (@sweat.org.za) advocating and delivering services to South African sex workers. Her artworks open a discussion on the accessibility for an equal future.

KIM GORDON is widely recognized for her cultural contributions as founding band member of Sonic Youth, as well as her paintings which often explore the power of text. Her protest poster comes from a series of protest paintings, in gold, a reference to sitting president Donald Trump, and the idea of protest art as it becomes a decorative object. The line, You Don’t Own Me, refers to WOMEN’S RIGHTS and the mounting protest against the wave to reverse Roe vs Wade, but it is also about art collecting.

Latinx transgender art star of indigenous descent, MARTINE GUTIERREZ, shares a self-portrait in the style of a shoe ad originally printed in her fictional fashion magazine titled Indigenous Woman, so glossily convincing you may try to subscribe. With IDENTITY as the central focus of her work, Gutierrez says, “For minorities who sit at the often-isolating crux of intersectionality, how do we ensure our voices are not jeopardized by “opportunity”? How can we work against the very power structures that propagate beauty and normalcy to the masses? In the pursuit of personal gain, we look at collaborations as positive opportunities, but for those of us who are minorities, we are almost always objectified, tokenized, and used to diversify or assume ally-ship.” #MakeYourOwnGags #AllPowerStructuresPropagateNormalcyToTheMasses #UnifyBeforeYouIdentify #WontBeErased

Fashion designer VIVIENNE WESTWOOD has become a vocal proponent of green energy and its necessity in this day of CLIMATE CHANGE. Westwood uses her fashion and her notoriety to bring awareness to this urgent cause. “People ask, ‘what can I do to help save the environment?’ In all my time as an activist, I’ve never had a satisfactory answer. Now we know: switch to a green energy supplier. This map is the world at 5 degrees. If you draw a line parallel with Paris, everything below that is uninhabitable. This means by the end of this century there will only be one billion people left. Global warming is at the tipping point. If we go past it, we can’t stop it. All the methane kicks in. We’re there right now. We have to stop it!” @ClimateRevolution

Katerina Jebb proposes a scan portrait of Tilda Swinton made in 2008 . Jebb inserts the word “DISARM” into the open mouth of Swinton. The life-size image explicitly confronts GUN CONTROL in America today.

TIONA NEKKIA MCCLODDEN recounts her personal experience with the criminal justice system. “I was arrested three years ago when a man (white) I maced in self-defense called the police. I was immediately jailed for almost two days, charged with a felony, ordered to get my own lawyer and get ready for trial. My lawyer was able to present my artist CV to gain acceptance to the ARD program, and I was then sat in a private session before the judge, the district attorney and his team with my lawyer and told that if I did not sign the paperwork to enter the program the judge would prosecute me at the highest judgment for my charges which was 3-5 years imprisonment. I had no choice due to my limited funds and was given two years probation which came with a hefty monthly fee, but far less than what my trial would have cost. I am a victim of railroading within the criminal justice system. Railroading is what happens to first time offenders who are pushed recklessly through the criminal justice system without any thought or delay. The criminal justice system in Philadelphia often “railroads” young, black and poc first-time offenders through a straight to prison pipeline with no hope whatsoever of fair treatment or reprieve. I could have easily gone straight to prison, had I not been accepted to the ARD (accelerated rehabilitative disposition) program. It was one of the most fearful times of my life.” PUSHA T is an American rapper and record executive who is very vocal about mass incarceration and its effect on “my demographic, my people, my culture.”

MARILYN MINTER creates a poster with one word that boldly and simply reads RESIST. Minter is known for her hyperreal paintings and photographs exploring the world often from the viewpoint of a fogged, cracked, or otherwise visually obstructed world. For her poster, however, her message is clear and sharp: don’t accept the status quo, fight for your beliefs. #Resist

Artist FAITH RINGGOLD, a self-described “black woman in America”, is well known for her poignant storytelling through painting and quilting. She is outspoken on issues concerning the lack of representation of women of color in prominent museums and galleries. Her activism for GENDER EQUALITY has shed light on the discriminatory disposition of major art institutions while simultaneously defying the status quo.