Our community is only as strong as the values we publicly defend. But right now, the Trump Administration is attacking immigrants with house raids, separating families, and locking children in concentration camps.
We know that we are stronger and safer when we take bold public action to keep families together.
Sanctuary Streets offers a public poster exhibit to build strong communities. Founded and curated by Jules Cowan through Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Fellows program, the exhibit addresses the question: how might we pursue and sustain collective safety?
The poster artists include:
Design Action Collective
Jess X. Snow
Jessica Sabogal
Jesus Barraza
Jules Cowan
Kate DeCiccio
Mazatl
Micah Bazant
Art and cultural organizing have always offered powerful ways to practice solidarity, but they need to be public. From posters that declare "No Ban, No Wall" to "Immigrants and Refugees Are Welcome Here", we are writing our resistance on the walls.
As a civic art project, you can host the 12 posters in any public space, whether it's a school, museum, library, faith institution or other community space. The only requirement? The posters face the street.