Join us for the first opening reception of the season: September 7th 6-8pm. Free and open to the public.

Ricardo Levins Morales is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing from the injuries and ongoing reality of oppression. His work is widely used by grassroots movements, organizations and communities. This exhibition will examine the breath and depth of Ricardo’s art over the past 55 years!

He was born into the anti-colonial movement in his native Puerto Rico and was drawn into activism in Chicago when his family moved there in 1967.

Ricardo Levins Morales left high school early and worked in various industries, and over time began to use his art as part of his movement work. This activism has included support work for the Black Panthers and Young Lords and participating in or acting in solidarity with farmers, environmental, labor, racial justice, antiwar and other struggles for peoples empowerment. He was a founding member of the Northland Poster Collective (1979-2009).

He also leads workshops on creative organizing, social justice strategy and sustainable activism, and mentors and supports organizers. The worker members of RLM Art Studio are represented by the Newspaper and Communications guild/CWA.

EXHIBIT SPONSORS
William Berry, Jr. & Lisa Brennan, Bob Gates & Deborah Welsh, Barry & Barbara Gordon, John P. Haritatos, The Irish and Monsour families – In memory of Rae Kramer, Lorraine Morganti, Deirdre Neilen, Carole Resnick, Alan Rosenthal, Mara Sapon-Shevin, Ann Tiffany & Ed Kinane, and Amy Williams

SEASON SPONSORS
Anonymous Group – In memory of Rae Kramer, Annemarie Deegan, Therese A. Deegan, Margrit Diehl, Nirelle & Allen Galson, Mike Greenlar & Linda Bogart-Greenlar, Jeremy McKay, Lauren & Walter Melnikow, Diane Murphy, Shirley & Larry Novak, Lleni Pach, Mary Traynor, Ann Tiffany & Ed Kinane, Ellen Schwartz, Vince Sgambati, Ron VanNorstrand, Paul Welch & Sharon Dettmer, Shaila Wood & Ramesh Gaonkar, and Amy Zamkoff

SPECIAL BENEFACTORS
The Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation, Bousqet Holstein, Donald Blair & Nancy Dock, Caroline Cargo, Edgewood Gallery, Sam Gruber, Joyce Homan, Sandra Hurd & Joel Potash, Mary Kuhn & Dave Thomas, The DUKE Malavenda Foundation, Inc., Sidney Manes & Amy Zamkoff, Nancy & Bruce McCoy, Sarah Stewart McIlvain, Diane Lyden Murphy, Rick Olanoff & Susan Wadley, Robert Sarason & Jane Burkhead, Craig Schlanger & Rosemary Welch, Mary Stanley, and Carolyn Stark & John Przepiora

SUSTAINING SPONSORS
Walter Putter & Marilyn Smith