لوحات
Assata Shakur – Tom Manning
“My name is Assata and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government's policy towards people of color. I am an ex political prisoner, and I have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984.”
Rosa Parks – Kevin Cooper
On 1 December, 1955 local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) leader Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama and helped spark the Montgomery bus boycott, a 13-month struggle to desegregate the city’s buses.
Marilyn Buck – Tom Manning
Marilyn was an anti-imperialist political prisoner. She lived most of her adult life in controlled, restrictive spaces: from clandestinity, to prisons, to control units within prisons.She developed a richly imaginative, expansive view of human liberation, and built a bridge to a world we hunger for but have yet to create.
Bob Marley – Kevin Cooper
Portrait of Bob Marley.
Portrait of My Great Uncle Hung by Abe Lincoln in Mankato. MN – Leonard Peltier
Abraham Lincoln hung 38 Lakota men in one of the largest mass executions in American history.
Free Gaza – Kevin Cooper
The Gaza Strip is home to a population of approximately 1.9 million people, including some 1.4 million Palestine refugees. The Israeli blockade on land, air and sea began in 2007 and continues to have a devastating effect as access to markets and people’s movement to and from the Gaza Strip remain severely restricted.
Grandma Jumping Bull – Leonard Peltier
A firebrand, grandma Jumping Bull would defend anyone who asked her for help, regardless of who it set her against. She was among a group of Lakota who invited Native activists to camp on her parents’ land near Oglala, and she firmly defended Leonard Peltier after the June 1975 incident there. She passed away in 2015.
I Was Once A Young Warrior Too – Leonard Peltier
Lithograph.
Minute Man – Tom Manning
Guerilla in Front of Mosque
Yuri Kochiyama – Tom Manning
Yuri was a prominent Japanese American human rights activist who worked with Malcolm X and Black Power organizations for Asian/Black unity. She was imprisoned by the US in Japanese Internment Camps.
Boycott Divest – Emory Douglas
Boycott and Divest Poster used widely to center the struggle for land and against Israeli apartheid.
Free the Land – Emory Douglas
Part of the large Palestine Solidarity Mural created in 2014 on 26th Street in Oakland, CA.
Sitting Bull & Children – Leonard Peltier
Tatanka Iyotake (Sitting Bull) was a great leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota. He was respected for his courage, wisdom and dedication to his people.
Desvelo – Elizam Escobar
The Institute of Culture of Puerto Rico acquired his painting Desvelo for the collection of the National Gallery. Acrylic on canvas - 1990
Heurística Uno – Elizam Escobar
Mixed media (acrylic, photo-painting, photocopy and collage) - 1992.
Untitled – Areej O’ruq
Painting made by former Palestinian prisoner Areej O’ruq, as part of her thesis seminar titled “Female Prisoners, however..?” O’ruq used oil paint colors and scotch tape as prison bars to symbolize that these bars will inevitably be removed and freedom will come.
Moharb Idees -Sara Manasra
Painting by Palestinian artist Sara Manasra of Palestinian prisoner Moharb Idees. Mohareb Idees was arrested in 2006 and sentenced to 35 years imprisonment in an Israeli prison, in which he spent 15 years.
Untitled – Nijmeh Salameh
Nijmeh Salameh drew this painting for her former prisoner husband Mohmmad Salameh while in Israeli prison. This painting is made on a canvas, painted with oil paint colors and graffiti.
Untitled – Abu Jihad Museum
A gift from Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Adel Khayat for his wife. A painting written on it “The Smile of My Life”. Askelon, 13/10/2007
Palestine for Palestinians – Oscar López Rivera
Oil On Canvas - 2021
Don’t ask about me
By former Palestinian prisoner Muhannad Abu Ghosh in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons and against the Israeli arbitrary policy of administrative detention.
Violence only makes us more violent
By former Palestinian prisoner Muhannad Abu Ghosh in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons and against the Israeli arbitrary policy of administrative detention.
Walking Their Land – Scotty Scot
Painting done in acrylic and water color paints drawn in ink pen. Painting and following poem done by Scotty Scott, April 2021 Stop killing Palestinian children/ Stop stealing their land/ They are human beings/ Like any other man/ They have lived in this place/ for thousands of years/ Now you shed their blood/ And their mothers shed tears/ Stop killing their children/ Stop stealing their land/ They have equal rights/ Like any other man