COME TOGETHER:
Interethnic Collaborations for Equity and Social Change in the 1970s

For many artists, musicians, poets, writers, students, organizers, and the concerned general populous, social change was not merely a concept, it was a profound lived reality during the 1970s. In particular, a number of San Francisco Bay Area community artists responded to some of the quite consciously interlinked social movements of the time. These artists created provocative visual representations of the immediate social and political struggles. Overall, they shared in their intent a vision of countering overlapping oppressions of gender, race, and class and sometimes nation. In this latter concern, they also voiced sentiments against the Vietnam War and colonialism.

This particular exhibition offers an introduction to some of the notable political and artistic exchanges that occurred between African American, Asian American, Chicano/Latino, Euro American, and Native American communities. Featured here are graphic art prints and posters of individual artists such as Emory Douglas, Juan Fuentes, Rupert Garcia, Nancy Hom, Bruce Kaipeir, Jack Loo, Rachael Romero, and several others. In bringing potent visual style to activist efforts, these political artists played a significant role in community-building and public outreach. The bold and dynamic images were produced in a number of artist and printmaking workshops that formed around the San Francisco Bay.

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Emory Douglas George Jackson Lives! 1971 Offset Black Panther Party Rupert Garcia and Sammi Madison Garcia Collection	Emory Douglas Why Must Black People Look at Each Other Through Prison Bars? Where Is Our Freedom? 1971 Offset Black Panther Party Rupert Garcia and Sammi Madison Garcia Collection	April 22 Coalition Day of Unacceptance 1977 Offset April 22 Coalition Rupert Garcia and Sammi Madison Garcia Collection