[Middle Room Gallery] Two great Drawing Resistance events this weekend!

[Jason Pitzl-Waters]

Drawing Resistance - a traveling political art show

Come to the Middle Room Gallery this weekend to enjoy two great events in 
honor of our January show Drawing Resistance.

This Saturday, January 18th from 7-9pm check out the opening reception for 
Drawing Resistance - a traveling political art show. Co-founder of the show 
Nicolas Lampert will be on hand for the opening!

This Sunday, January 19th at 12pm join us for a talk and presentation about 
Drawing Resistance by co-founder and political artist and activist Nicolas 
Lampert.

Drawing Resistance is a show of two dimensional artwork by 31 
artist/activists from North America. The content-based show speaks to 
subject matter vital to understanding the world today, including the 
anti-globalization movement, working class rights, the destruction of the 
environment, corporate control, police brutality, homelessness, 
gentrification and the Zapatista liberation movement in Mexico.

The show, organized by Sue Simensky Bietila (Milwaukee) and Nicolas Lampert 
(Minneapolis)
will travel for up to five years to cities in the United States, Canada and 
Mexico from 2001-2005. Drawing Resistance has no funding and relies solely 
on the communities hosting the show to transport it to the next site. Like 
a band on tour, the art show is getting in the van! Drawing Resistance is 
unique in its collective organizing method and ability to turn the gallery 
into a workshop. In addition to presenting the two dimensional art show, 
many cities are planning collaborative events to coincide with the show.

Fully three generations of political art are represented in the Drawing 
Resistance show. Chicago artist, Carlos Cortez is old enough to remember 
the days of Depression-era political art. Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper's 
storyboard magazine World War 3-Illustrated along with the legendary punk 
album-cover art of Winston Smith (Dead Kennedy's) and John Yates provide a 
crucial bridge to the current generation. Styles range from the bright 
watercolors of Domitila Dominguez (Questions & Swords: Folk Tales of the 
Zapatista Revolution, written by Subcommandante Marcos) to the street 
posters of Robbie Conal to the spray paint/stencils of Josh MacPhee to the 
collages of Freddie Baer.

"Drawing Resistance is a bracing, enlivening panorama of radical humanism, 
stretched wide by the expansive hopes and traumas of our times. Long may it 
travel." -- William Eisenstein, Urban Ecology

Date: Jan 5-31 (opening reception Jan 18, 7-9pm)
Location: The Middle Room Gallery @ The U-C IMC

www.gallery.ucimc.org
www.drawingresistance.org

For further information contact the The Middle Room Gallery: gallery at ucimc.org

Jason Pitzl-Waters
The Middle Room Gallery
@ The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
218 W. Main Street in downtown Urbana
http://www.gallery.ucimc.org