In 2020, I was part of a large group of collaborators creating protest art for the 2020 election. As artists, activists and organizers, we were preparing joyful resistance for the possible outcome of a contested election. I screenprinted and stenciled 200 banners that were used in a dance-party protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes were being counted.
In 2020, I was part of a large group of collaborators creating protest art for the 2020 election. As artists, activists and organizers, we were preparing joyful resistance for the possible outcome of a contested election. I screenprinted and stenciled 200 banners that were used in a dance-party protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes were being counted.
In 2020, I was part of a large group of collaborators creating protest art for the 2020 election. As artists, activists and organizers, we were preparing joyful resistance for the possible outcome of a contested election. I screenprinted and stenciled 200 banners that were used in a dance-party protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes were being counted.
In 2020, I was part of a large group of collaborators creating protest art for the 2020 election. As artists, activists and organizers, we were preparing joyful resistance for the possible outcome of a contested election. I screenprinted and stenciled 200 banners that were used in a dance-party protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes were being counted.
IIn 2020, I was part of a large group of collaborators creating protest art for the 2020 election. As artists, activists and organizers, we were preparing joyful resistance for the possible outcome of a contested election. I screenprinted and stenciled 200 banners that were used in a dance-party protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes were being counted.
In 2020, I was part of a large group of collaborators creating protest art for the 2020 election. As artists, activists and organizers, we were preparing joyful resistance for the possible outcome of a contested election. I screenprinted and stenciled 200 banners that were used in a dance-party protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes were being counted.
In 2020, I was part of a large group of collaborators creating protest art for the 2020 election. As artists, activists and organizers, we were preparing joyful resistance for the possible outcome of a contested election. I screenprinted and stenciled 200 banners that were used in a dance-party protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes were being counted.
In 2020, I was part of a large group of collaborators creating protest art for the 2020 election. As artists, activists and organizers, we were preparing joyful resistance for the possible outcome of a contested election. I screenprinted and stenciled 200 banners that were used in a dance-party protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes were being counted.
In 2020, I was part of a large group of collaborators creating protest art for the 2020 election. As artists, activists and organizers, we were preparing joyful resistance for the possible outcome of a contested election. I screenprinted and stenciled 200 banners that were used in a dance-party protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes were being counted.
In 2020, I was part of a large group of collaborators creating protest art for the 2020 election. As artists, activists and organizers, we were preparing joyful resistance for the possible outcome of a contested election. I screenprinted and stenciled 200 banners that were used in a dance-party protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes were being counted.
I collaborated with Performing Statistics as a part of Freedom Constellations, a growing collaboration between youth activists and artists imagining a world where all youth are free and youth prisons no longer exist. I created a billboard design in collaboration with youth leaders at The End Youth Prisons Campaign at Legal Rights Center in Minneapolis, MN. 2023.
Photo by Mark Strandquist, Courtesy of Performing Statistics
Using a Powering the Arts grant from PECO, Friends of the Rail Park commissioned Liberation Journeys by People's Paper Co-op, an ongoing women led advocacy initiative of The Village of Arts and Humanities centering women in reentry as leading criminal justice experts that our society needs to hear from, using art to amplify their stories, dreams, and visions for a more just and free world. The temporary park-wide installation highlighted the impact of the criminal justice system on women in Philadelphia, and celebrated their collective and individual journeys towards freedom.
Learn more about the People's Paper Co-op here.
I created stenciled imagery for this collaborative installation.
Photo by Mark Strandquist
On the Day They Come Home
2021. Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist, In collaboration with Tamika Bell, Paulette Carrington, Starr Granger, Ivy Lenore Johnson, and Yvonne Newkirk
This interactive installation is part of the national exhibit STAYING POWER by Monument Lab at the Village of Arts and Humanities. On the Day They Come Home imagines a future where all women serving life are free. The monument was co-designed by former life sentenced women, and family members of women serving life in PA.
I co-designed and spray painted the stencils that surround each portrait, where each wreath of flowers symbolize a core tenet of the abolitionist world they advocate for: healing, resistance, resiliency, counter-narratives, and love.
Photo by Mark Strandquist