2009 - present
Since 2011 when Sam Brownback was elected Governor, Kansas has been in a state of economic collapse and ideological furor, resulting in the dismantling of nearly every state funded agency that serves the public good and the erosion of fundamental civil rights. This is due predominantly to xenophobic and cynical policies envisioned and enacted by the Governor and his supermajorities of house and senate supporters. These posters are my attempt to condemn and satirize the demagogues, while also supporting those who are fighting against them. I hope that soon they will be less necessary…
SOS
Although usually sworn enemies, here Tinky-Winky and Godzilla take on a common foe!
El Secretario De Xenofobia: Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who is best known as the architect of anti-immigration laws across the U.S., and rollbacks on citizens voting rights in Kansas.
The Feral Senator: State senator Virgil Peck who, during a March 14, 2011 senate hearing, said (when referring to a state program to manage feral hogs) that "If shooting these immigrating feral hogs works, maybe we have found a [solution] to our illegal immigration problem."
Reject Brownback: After enduring one horror after another, from a draconian tax-cut plan that crippled the state to the elimination of the Kansas Arts Commission, I came to the conclusion that the governor was powerless to stop the destruction he was wreaking. Like some giant movie monster, he flails around pleading for someone (us) to stop him from doing more damage. This poster became a news story when it was taken down from an exhibition at a gallery a block away from the state capitol building.
Home(less) on the Range: In an effort to rid Kansas of all who get in their ideological way, Governor Brownback and Secretary of State Kobach have recently set their sights on the Lesser Prairie-Chicken, going so far as to file suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service which has listed the bird as "Threatened" due to its diminishing habitat.
One Kansas Governor
Microburst (zine distribution box): A printed and on-line zine created and distributed by Kansas artists, poets and writers that makes space for voices of dissent at a time of injustice.
Save Our State
This 2008 window installation for the Lawrence Arts Center imagines bar patrons at Free State Brewery watching the feed from the City Hall tower-cam while a couple across the river shares a kiss for the camera.
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