Lenape Occupied
Artist
John Emerson
(American, born 1973)
Date2012
Mediumsilkscreen on French paper
Dimensionssheet: 45.7 × 30.5 cm (18 × 12 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineChapin Riley Fund at the Greater Worcester Community Foundation
Object number2016.22.28
Label TextThe Occuprint portfolio developed as a response to the movements that began as Occupy Wall Street in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park in 2011. The poster art, which evolved from hasty signage scribbled on pizza boxes, responds to a contemporary event that demonstrates how American citizens can inhabit a space to exercise political rights.
Borrowing from the peaceful protest tactic the “sit-in,” the Occupy movement’s primary objective was to protest social and economic inequalities. Organizers also plastered these signs around the city, inhabiting physical and intellectual space in conjunction with the actual protest.
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