CSPG 35th Anniversary Commemorative Journal

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL GRAPHICS

CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF ART & RESISTANCE

Sunday, June 2, 2024

Skirball Cultural Center

Ahmanson Ballroom

2701 North Sepulveda Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90049

2024 Honorees

Barbara Dane

11:00 am 12:00 pm Emcee

Champagne Brunch & Silent Auction

Awards Presentation

Performance by Pablo Menéndez

Silent Auction closes after the program

Erin Aubry Kaplan

2024 Aris & Carolyn Anagnos Culture of Liberation Award

“Culture contains the seed of opposition becoming the flower of liberation”

Amilcar Cabral

Yreina D. Cervántez

2024 Art of Resistance Award

“Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient...

Arundhati Roy

Art Hazelwood

2024 Art is a Hammer Award

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it”

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Robin D. G. Kelley

2024 David Kunzle Historian of the Lions Award

“Until the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter.”

African proverb

WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO

Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) is an activist, educational and research archive that collects, preserves, documents, and exhibits posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change. Using its more than 90,000 human rights and protest posters and prints, CSPG creates traveling and online thematic exhibitions, and publications.

CSPG’s posters are unique, primary, historical documents which reveal histories of struggles that are often hidden, and more often forgotten. Our growing collection is one of the most diverse visual resources in the world. This educational research archive, representing posters from the 19th Century to the present—includes the largest collection of post-World War II posters in the United States.

For over three decades CSPG has been creating a special community of international artists, activists, donors, curators, students, and teachers who share a passion for the power of political art to educate and inspire people to action.

STAFF

Carol A. Wells

Founder & Executive Director

Emily Sulzer

Archives Director

Summer Benton

Office & Social Media Manager

Lisa Kahn

Project Archivist

Sam Ceja

Assistant Archivist

Aimee Murillo

Assistant Archivist

2024 EVENT COMMITTEE

Kay Gallin

Event Coordinator

Sherry Frumkin

Scott Johnson

Carol A. Wells

Danny Widener

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Marcy Alyn

Summer Benton Brogan de Poar

VIDEO & PHOTOGRAPHY

Julie Thompson

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Daniel Widener

President

Theodore T. Hajjar

Vice President

Sherry Frumkin

Treasurer

Sheila Pinkel

Secretary

Scott Johnson

Roger Lowenstein

Carol A. Wells

ADVISORY BOARD

Cindy Bendat

Ruth Capelle

Robbie Conal

Lincoln Cushing

Emory Douglas

Susan Grode

Garland Kirkpatrick

Lucy Lippard

Susan Martin

Peter G. Meyer

Ricardo Levins Morales

Mark Resnick

Herbert Siguenza

Ann Wright (Col. Retired)

Lori Zimmerman

2024 INTERNS & VOLUNTEERS

Rob Aft

Amanda Andrei

Sara Castro

Aderyn Clark

Sophie-Maile Fischer

Vera Kopecky

Shannon Lam

Isabella Laufer

Santana Molina

Elhamy Naguib

Sophia Raymond

Cheryl Revkin

Michael Suhd

Wanyu Wu

Yuval Youseffy

Isaias Lopez

Pedro Mariano Gonzalez

Saúl Ontiveros

Rebecca Liu

Haley Vallejo

Lex Drewinski, Germany, 1997

José Balmes, France, 1974

PRESENTERS

EMCEE

Erin Aubry Kaplan is a contributing writer to the New York Times opinion page and a former weekly op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times, the first African American in the paper’s history to hold that position. She was CSPG’s 2008 Historian of the Lions Honoree.

Paul Boden became homeless at the age of 16. He began volunteering at a drop-in shelter in San Francisco in 1983, eventually becoming a program director there. He then worked as a case manager in a supportive hotel program for mentally ill people. Paul served as Executive Director of San Francisco’s Coalition on Homelessness for 16 years and was a founder of the Community Housing Partnership, a nationally recognized permanent housing corporation with optional supportive services. He served as president of its Board for 10 years. Paul was also a board member of the National Coalition for the Homeless and co-chair of its civil rights and grassroots organizing workgroup. Since 2005 he has been the Executive Director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project, a coalition of local homelessness organizing groups based primarily in the Western United States but works with groups throughout the country.

Sybil Venegas is an independent curator, art historian, writer, and Professor Emerita of Chicana/o Studies at East Los Angeles College. She is one of the first art historians to historicize Chicana art and is recognized as an early scholar in Chicana feminist art history as well as the cultural politics of Dia de los Muertos ceremonials in Chicanx/Latinx communities. Her articles and curatorial essays are published in numerous catalogs and online publications.

Danny Widener is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, and an author. Born in Echo Park and raised in Venice, Widener specializes in the African diaspora, social movements, expressive culture and the global history of the anti-imperialist left. Widener currently serves in multiple administrative capacities, including as Director of the Institute of Arts and Humanities, the faculty director of the PATH transfer program, and as interim director of the program in Global South Studies. He is a former Associate Editor at American Quarterly and served on the UC Press Editorial Board. He currently serves as the President of the Board of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

Pablo Menéndez, direct from Cuba

Guitarist Pablo Menéndez was born in Oakland, California and is Barbara Dane’s son. He moved to Cuba in 1966 at age 14 to study music at the National School of Art in Havana and has lived there since. In 1985, he founded and continues to direct Mezcla, a jazz ensemble fusing Afro-Cuban rhythms with yoruba and rock. Mezcla is Carlos Santana’s favorite Cuban band!

Congratulations to all the honorees!

Congratulations to CSPG for 35 years of collecting, protecting and sharing posters of protest!

Sherry Frumkin

BARBARA DANE

2024 ARIS & CAROLYN ANAGNOS CULTURE OF LIBERATION AWARD

“The world needs more people like Barbara, someone who is willing to follow her conscience. She is, if the term must be used, a hero.” — Bob Dylan

Barbara Dane, is a folk, blues, and jazz singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and political activist. “Bessie Smith in stereo,” wrote jazz critic Leonard Feather. “Hot and Cool at the same time,” said Bonnie Raitt. Dane co-founded Paredon Records specializing in international protest music and is now part of Smithsonian Folkways. In 1966, she broke the cultural blockade to Cuba and paid the price.

Today, we are honoring Barbara with the 2024 Aris & Carolyn Anagnos Culture of Liberation Award in recognition of her inspirational work as a political activist and artist, using music to promote peace & justice.

Photo Credit: Steve Kahn

YREINA D. CERVÁNTEZ

2024 ART OF RESITANCE AWARD

“With your passion, you can find your place in the world.”

— Yreina D. Cervántez

Yreina D. Cervántez is a third-generation Chicana working primarily in painting, printmaking, and muralism. Through her art, teaching, and community activism, she has contributed to the discourse on an ever-evolving Chicanx aesthetic. Prominent in her work are issues of environmental justice, immigration and human rights, including themes of Sacred Space, specifically regarding Xicana/Latina agency and the decolonized feminine body.

We honor Yreina today with the 2024 Art of Resistance Award in recognition of her artistic accomplishments, community activism, and creation of art that promotes resistance.

Photo Credit: Lluvia Higuera

ART HAZELWOOD

2024 ART IS A HAMMER AWARD

“Hazelwood is a contemporary political artist who cuts to the core of corporate capitalism in the early twenty-first century.”

—Paul von Blum

Art Hazelwood is an artist, activist, and teacher who creates politically charged prints for arts organizations, unions, and grassroots movements. While teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute, he co-founded the San Francisco Poster Syndicate. He organizes artists to address the struggles of the unhoused and teaches printmaking at San Quentin Prison.

We honor Art today with the 2024 Art is a Hammer Award in recognition of his artistic accomplishments, activism, and art-making that promotes a more just world.

Photo Credit: Dani Toriumi

ROBIN D. G. KELLEY

2024 DAVID KUNZLE

HISTORIAN OF THE LIONS AWARD

“If I were going to characterize my politics, it would be Marxist Surrealist feminist who is not just anti something but pro-emancipation, pro-liberation. Marxism is anti-capitalist, feminism is anti-patriarchy. But it’s also about re-envisioning our lives in this world.” —Robin D. G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA, focuses on grass-roots movements that made a difference, but are not part of the general grand narrative. His research includes the history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; black intellectuals; music and visual culture; Surrealism, and Marxism.

Today, we honor Robin with the 2024 David Kunzle Historian of the Lions Award in recognition of his integrity, passion for truth-telling, and commitment to relating the stories of the lions.

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL GRAPHICS

Honorees 1995-2019

ART AS A HAMMER AWARD

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

—Vladimir Mayakovsky

Micha Bazant

Mariona Barkus

Jos Sances

Samella Lewis

Cheri Gaulke & Sue Maberry

Andy Zermeño

Doug Minkler

Ricardo Levins Morales

Juan Fuentes

John Carr & Yo! What Happened to Peace?

Barbara Kruger

Emory Douglas

Taller Tupac Amaru, Jesus Barraza & Favianna Rodriguez

Barbara Carrasco

Lalo Alcaraz

Wendell Collins

Guerrilla Girls

Rupert Garcia

Robbie Conal

Carlos Cortéz

Malaquías Montoya

Sheila Pinkel

HISTORIAN OF THE LIONS AWARD

“Until the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter.”

—African Proverb

Sabina Virgo & Kwazi Nkrumah

Lincoln Cushing

Sonali Kolhatkar

Larry Gross & Scott Tucker

Diane Luby Lane & the Get Lit Players

Joan Sekler

Angela Davis

Robert Scheer & Narda Zacchino

David Kunzle

Erin Aubry Kaplan

Rudy Acuña

Moctesuma Esparza

Sandra Levinson & Center for Cuban Studies (New York)

Culture Clash (Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas & Herbert Sigüenza)

Code Pink, Women for Peace

Norma Chinchilla & Nora Hamilton

Laurie Ochoa

Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research

Midnight Special Bookstore

Elizabeth Martínez

Sister Karen Boccalero

Shifra Goldman

CULTURE OF LIBERATION

“Culture contains the seed of opposition becoming the flower of liberation.”

Nalleli Cobo

Bryonn Bain

Dolores Huerta

Aris & Carolyn Anagnos CSPG HONOREES 1995-2019

—Amilcar Cabral

Gilda Haas & Gary Phillips

Sonia Mercado & R. Samuel Paz

Tom Morello

Reverend James & Dorothy Lawson

Youth Justice Coalition

June Wayne

Susan Adelman & Claudio Llanos

Barbara & Douglas Hadsell

Cynthia Anderson-Barker & Tim Barker

Marge Tabankin & Earl Katz

Betty & Stanley Sheinbaum

Mary Brent Wehrli

Paul Conrad

Susan Grode

City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department

Getty Grant Program

Doran Ross

Ed Pearl

Tom Patchett

EMMA GOLDMAN AWARD

“In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.”

—Emma Goldman

David Clennon, actor, activist

SPECIAL FOUNDERS AWARD

Aris Anagnos

No event was held in 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 & 2022

FRIENDS OF CSPG

Rob Aft

Cynthia Anderson-Barker & Tim Barker

Joel Bellman & Hope Singer

Cindy Bendat

Ruth Capelle

Richard Dawson

Ruth Egger

Ruth Galanter

Nancy Halpern Ibrahim

Kathleen Sheldon & Steve Tarzynski

Lamont Yeakey

"Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.”

Thurgood Marshall

THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT OVER THE PAST 35 YEARS

IN MEMORIAM

Since our last event in November 2019, CSPG has lost the following friends, supporters, and artists whose vision inspired our work. We miss them and pledge to continue their commitment to a better world.

2019

Roger Dittmann

Tomi Ungerer

2020

2021 John Baldessari

Betty Lou Einstein

Lila Garrett

Davoud Ismaili

Ariana Manov

John Otterbridge

Beatriz María Solís

Sabina Virgo

Ed Asner

Jay Belloli

Elaine Budin

Joe Csapo

Jed Dannenbaum

Stuart J. Dicker

Marvin A. Gluck

Yolanda Lopez

Elizabeth Martinez

Ed Pearl

Zena Pearlstone

James Prigoff

John August Swanson

2022

Kay Brown

Leo Frumkin

Frieda Klein

Samella Lewis

Alita Zurav Letwin

Isa-Kae Meskin

Karen McClellan

Sandra Pettit

M. Carmen Ramirez

Carol Smith

Rhoda Shapiro

Esteban Villa

Felix Beltrán

Dik Cool

Tim Drescher

David Lance Goines

Henry Frederick Klein

Noel Madrid

Joe Maizlish

Kwazi Nkrumah

Elina O’Lague

Myron Orleans

Eleanor Osgood

Stan Rosen

June Sale

Paul Schrade

Ruth Seymour

Paula Soloman

Arnold Springer

Irena Varjabedian

Alexis Smith

David Kunzle

Andrew Campbell

Robert Marshall

Wayne Kramer

Maya Conn

Peg Yorkin

Richard Serra

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