Art on the Frontline: Mandate for a People’s Culture

Angela Davis Born 1944 in Alabama, USA, Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender and class and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Tschabalala Self Born 1990 in Harlem, USA, Tschabalala Self is a painter based in New Haven. She received her BA from Bard College and her MFA from the Yale School of Art. In 2018 she was the recipient of the Studio Museum Artist-in-Residency program, and in 2017 the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant. She has recently held solo exhibitions at Pilar Corrias Gallery, London; Art Omi Ghent, New York; The Yuz Museum, Shanghai; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and many more.