Object number:
2010.54.9345
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
Freedom is won
Maker:
Lailan Huen, Diego Rivera-Garcia, Talia Gonzalez, Erick Friely
Date made:
circa 2007
Material / Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 17.125 in, W: 11.125 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
poster
Content description:
Poster consists of black, yellow and red print on white paper. Image depicts a microphone held in the air by an extended human hand with another arm held up in front of it in a fist. Alternating red and yellow triangles of color extend from the microphone in a spiral with images in the yellow triangles of a person with a hat, a person with a guitar, a person breakdancing, and two people dancing/doing martial arts. Text includes event information, a quote from A. Philip Randolph, Union Organizer about freedom and "7th Annual All-Oakland Talent Show / Freedom is Won / One Voice, One Mic, One Dance, One Stage / Friday, May 11, 2007...Oakland Museum Theatre.
Concepts:
microphone; guitar; fist; hand; dance
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