Join the Creative Change Coalition for a technical assistance workshop with Ricardo Levins Morales. Drawing on five decades at the intersection of organizing and art-making, this workshop will explore how art can support change at personal,community and societal scales. Examples include restoring community memory, challenging harmful beliefs, winning workplace battles, and supporting collective resilience. We’ll discuss how the underlying strategies can be applied in different situations.
All are welcome, designed for place-based organizations.
Ricardo Levins Morales
Bio:Ricardo Levins Morales is a boricua artist, organizer, and author based in Minneapolis. His decades of social movement activism spans supporting the Black Panthers and Young Lords, union organizing, farmer and environmental, and anti-police struggles. He uses his art, writing, and mentorship practice to stimulate historical memory in the face of forgetting, resilience in the face of trauma, and resistance in the face of oppression.
He co-founded the Northland Poster Collective, which produced art, screen printing services, and organizing materials for movements (1979-2009). He was part of a political/artistic current, starting in the 1980s to establish the centrality of cultural organizing and narrative strategy in movements for change, participating in such national initiatives as the Alliance for Cultural Democracy, the Great Labor Arts Exchange, the National Organizers Alliance, and Labor Notes. He works from a collectively managed storefront studio in Minneapolis with fellow members of the News Guild/CWA. Learn more at rmlartsudio.com and ricardolevinsmorales.com.
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