— Currier Museum of Art New Hampshire Toolkit Contents

3 — Welcome 12— The For Freedoms Network

6 — The For Freedoms 15 — Institutional Collaborators Town Hall Guide

9 — The For Freedoms Lawn Sign Guide Welcome,

For Freedoms is a collective for creative citizenship. We use art This toolkit serves as a how-to for two different For Freedoms to deepen public discussions on civic issues and core values, activations: Town Halls and Lawn Signs. These programs and to advocate for equality, dialogue, and civic participation. are designed to attract diverse voices and lend agency to We believe that art and artists have the power to reshape society community members to express and explore what freedom and challenge the prohibitive and divisive systems that define means to them today. existing notions of citizenship and politics. We believe in the collective power of artists. We are committed We invite you to join For Freedoms as we take up residency to the idea that democracy thrives on free dialogue. at the Currier Museum of Art. Starting in October 2019, we will run a campaign comprised of concurrent, decentralized JOIN US. FOR FREEDOMS. FOR US ALL. programs with various organizations across New Hampshire.

Our goal is to encourage broad creative civic engagement in Manchester and communities throughout the state.

CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART • NEW HAMPSHIRE TOOLKIT 3 CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART • NEW HAMPSHIRE TOOLKIT 4 Town Halls FOR FREEDOMS Town Halls

WHAT IS A FOR FREEDOMS TOWN HALL? PAST EXAMPLES Our Town Halls are forums for inclusive public conversations that • A conversation in a museum about immigration populated only by self-identified • are artist-led immigrants • can be inspired by one of the (fear, speech, want or worship) • A round-table talk about food insecurity amongst chefs, artists and urban • welcome many kinds of voices and points of view agriculturalists • provoke active, critical listening • Artists and lawyers discussing the First Amendment • A rifle-range visit led by an artist and discussion of gun culture among doctors, FORMAT gun enthusiasts and historians For Freedoms Town Halls are meant to be an artful act—the goal is civic engagement and dynamic conversation. There is no required format, topic, or DOCUMENTATION rules for the discussion. It could be a walking tour of a city, an artist critique, or Take photos of your town hall and/or record the discussion, if possible. Our a debate. What happens when we begin to think of dialogue and discourse as an recommendations for the best images include: photograph in 20mb or larger artistic medium unto itself? highest resolution RAW format; try to use the ratio of 6x9 for horizontals, 4x5 for verticals, and 16x9 for super wide. WHO PARTICIPATES This is an opportunity to highlight the expertise among artists, designers, policy If you have questions or want advice on how to make your Town Hall more impactful, makers, community organizers and citizens in your city or town. If helpful, we can please reach out to [email protected] and/or [email protected] recommend local artists or institutions in our network.

CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART • NEW HAMPSHIRE TOOLKIT 6 TOWN HALLS Examples

For Freedoms Town Hall : Freedom from Fear : Migration For Freedoms Town Hall : Collective Thinking MOCA , 2017 Aperture Foundation, 2017

CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART • NEW HAMPSHIRE TOOLKIT 7 Lawn Signs FOR FREEDOMS Lawn Signs

WHAT IS A FOR FREEDOMS LAWN SIGN EVENT? • Contact your local printer for a quote on price and timing to produce your versions The Four Freedoms outlined by FDR and Norman Rockwell began to articulate the of the Lawn Signs. Order signs, sharpie markers, and mounting hardware human right to freedom, but the articulation of those freedoms did not apply to • Hold a public event and invite people who attend to fill out the signs. Participants everyone. The lawn signs allow every participant to define freedom in their own way from any age group can be invited to take part. Encourage attendees to discuss and articulate a vision of freedom that contains multitudes. The signs read: their own visions of freedom with one another • If possible, find a location to display the community’s work • Freedom Of ____ • Freedom From _____ DOCUMENTATION • Freedom For ______Take photos of the Lawn Sign activation that capture the action of people filling them • Freedom To______out and installing them in the location. Our recommendations for the best images include: photograph in 20mb or larger highest resolution RAW format; try to use the HOW TO DO IT ratio of 6x9 for horizontals, 4x5 for verticals, and 16x9 for super wide. • Download the sign designs (click here) • Our Lawn Signs can be whatever size or material that suits your budget/location. Institutions have printed them as postcards, posters, vinyl wallpapers, buttons, or as yard signs made to stick in the grass with posts

CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART • NEW HAMPSHIRE TOOLKIT 9 LAWN SIGNS Examples

For Freedoms Lawn Signs Bayete Ross Smith and Stuart Sheldon x For Freedoms Brooklyn Museum, 2016 , 2016

CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART • NEW HAMPSHIRE TOOLKIT 10 The For Freedoms Network

Artists We Have Worked With 2016-2018 FOR FREEDOMS Our Network

OUR NETWORK CAN ALSO PROVIDE

• Support from For Freedoms core team [and Currier Fellow] • Connection to our network of over 700 artists and institutions • Amplification of your work at a national and regional scale through our website, social media, and information about your event and institution in our exhibition at the Currier Museum’s For Freedoms NH hub • Guide for branding • Guide for social media • Website support, support for questions and brainstorming • Partner profile on our digital platform

CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART • NEW HAMPSHIRE TOOLKIT 12 Ahron Weiner Cristina Velasquez Jasmine Clarke Mark Tribe Sam O'Neill Aida Muluneh Daesha Devón Harris Jay Turner Frey Seawell Marshall Reese Samara Gaev Albert James Ignacio Dan Farnum Jean-Christian Bourcart Marta Kosiorek Sandra Chen Weinstein Daniel Evan Rodriguez Jemima Kirke Mary Beth Meehan Shane Rocheleau Alejandro Cartagena Daniel Shea Jenny Brover Matthew Day Jackson Shimon Attie Alex Bell Danna Singer Jeremy Dean Matthew Hamon Sohrab Hura Alfredo Jaar David Rothenberg Jess Ingram Maureen Drennan Sophia Keleta Ignacio Allison Stewart Debi Cornwall Jess T. Dugan Michael Joseph Soumya Sankar Bose Amy Adler Deborah Willis Jim Goldberg Michele Pred Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa Andrea Bowers Demetris Koilalous Jim Ricks Stephen Duncombe Andres Serrano Domingo Borges Joaquin Palting Mike Fernandez Stephen Joyce Angie Smith Jon Henry Mike Osborne Steven Trent Smith Anya Ayoung Chee Edgar Arceneaux Jon Santos Mikhael Subotzky Stuart Sheldon Argus Paul Estabrook Emily Jacir Jordan Reznick Millee Tibbs Susan Barnett Ashley Gates Emily Yang Myriam Abdelaziz Tariku Shiferaw Bayeté Ross Smith Emma Sulkowicz Kambui Olujimi Nari Ward Titus Kaphar Baz Dreisinger Eric Gottesman Kameelah Janan Rasheed Nina Chanel Abney Todd Webb Beau Rhee Esa Nickel Kamoinge Nora Ligorano Travis Somerville Ben Schonberger EverydayClimateChange Katrina Walker Noritaka Minami Trevor Paglen Betsy MacLean Firelei Báez Ke Peng Norman Rockwell Wendy Ewald Brian Ulrich Francesca Magnani Kerry Alan Skarbakka Omar Imam Will Steacy Brittany M. Powell Fred Tomaselli KevinCharityFair Pablo Helguera WRRQ Caran Hartsfield Gary Burnley Kris Graves Paula Crown Wyatt Gallery Carrie Mae Weems Gerard Gaskin Lacy Austin Perri Hoffmann Xavi Bou Cassils Gigi Gatewood Lali Khalid Phil Roeder Charlene Carruthers Glenn Kaino Laurence Tribe Piece of Cake Yorgo Alexopoulos Cheryl Pope Leslie Wayne Rashid Johnson Yosi Sergant Chip Southworth Harm Weistra Lili Holzer-Glier Rashida Bumbray Zoë Buckman Chitra Ganesh Hector Rene Lisa K. Blatt Rawi'ya Zoë Charlton Chris Berntsen Holly Lynton Mara Sánchez-Renero Reverend Sekou and The Seal Chris Myers Inbal Abergil Marc McAndrews Breakers Christine Wong-Yap Invisible Borders Marcus DeSieno Rhea Karam Claire Beckett Jackie Nickerson Maria Gaspar Richard Misrach Coby Kennedy Jamilah King Mariam Ghani Rosa White Corinne May Botz Jared Thorne Marilyn Minter Rujeko Hockley

CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART • NEW HAMPSHIRE TOOLKIT 13 Institutional Collaborators ALABAMA Kate Wool of Concerned The John and McKinley College of Art LookOut! Gallery, Northcutt Steele NEW YORK at Buffalo Gallery SOUTH DAKOTA Vermont College Scientists Mable Ringling Foundation Residential Gallery of Fine Arts Alabama Center ARIZONA McDonogh School Aperture Union College King School Northern State Museum of Art, College in Arts for Architecture Housatonic Smart Western Heritage Foundation Museum of University VIRGINIA Lisa Sette Gallery Florida State MASSACHU- & Humanities, NORTH Community Museum of Art Center Contemporary Art Alabama University SETTS Michigan State Art Beyond Sight CAROLINA TENNESSEE 1708 Gallery ARKANSAS College Contemporary Art University University NEBRASKA Oregon State University Addison Gallery Art Music People Contemporary Beverly + Sam Charlottesville Center University Real Art Ways of Chicago University of South Florida of American Art MoCA Detroit Nebraska Art Museum Ross Gallery at Office of Human of Arkansas, (RAW) ArtNoir American Institute Contemporary INDIANA Appleseed of Raleigh Portland Art Christian Brothers Rights Little Rock Blueprint Projects Murals of Architects, Wadsworth Art Museum Brooklyn Museum University City in the Market Sheldon Museum Diggs Gallery Chrysler Birmingham CALIFORNIA Atheneum Dreitzer Gallery, Academy of Music of Bloomington of Art at University Portland State Brooks Museum of Museum of Art Chapter Museum of Art GEORGIA Spingold Theater Stamps Gallery Elsewhere 100 Days Action of Nebraska, Brooklyn Museum University Art Clark Atlanta IOWA Center at Brandeis at University Jefferson School Arts Revive Yale students Lincoln Harvey B. Gantt California College University University of Michigan Charles P. Sifton PENNSYLVANIA Memphis Brooks African American —independent Public Space One Center Birmingham of the Arts Workspace Gallery Gallery at the U.S. Museum of Art Heritage Center organizers Kennesaw State Ethelbert Cooper African American Museum of Art University of Iowa, MINNESOTA Courthouse, Nasher Museum Cantor Center University Gallery of African NEVADA Museum Rhodes College Maier Museum at New Britain Stanley Museum Eastern District at Duke University Black Warrior Arts at Stanford & African in Philadelphia Randolph College Museum Savannah College of Art University Marjorie Barrick of New York University Response, a University American Art The John and June of American Art of Art and Design of Minnesota, Museum of Art, Familias of Memphis University of USDAC outpost KANSAS Children's Allcott Gallery, Fine Ideas and Art Fitchburg University Separadas Project Virginia The Fralin Museum of Art Department of Art Museum Dept. Memphis Coleman Center DELAWARE Spencer Museum Art Museum of Nevada, Museum of Art Minnesota Street Telfair Museum of the Arts of Art & Art History, Mamie College of Art for the Arts Delaware Art of Art at the MISSISSIPPI Las Vegas Project Forbes Library University of North & Weaver's Ultra Virginia Museum Museum The Atlanta University Pike School of Art Creative Capital TEXAS Ground Floor NEW Carolina, Chapel of Contemporary NeueHouse Mayor's Office of Kansas Harvard University Monument Lab Contemporary FLORIDA Significant HAMPSHIRE The Federation Hill Blanton Museum Art of Cultural Affairs Oakland Museum Ulrich Museum Raise Your Developments Mural Arts at the University Jule Collins Smith Ben Hill Currier Museum Forsyth Satellite University WASHINGTON of California of Art at Wichita Hands Up! Philadelphia of Texas, Austin Museum Middle School HAWAII of Art Academy of North Carolina, State University MISSOURI Henry Art Gallery San Jose AXIS Chinatown Invisibility Lab Greensboro Philadelphia Blue Star Klein Cornell Contemporary Art Keene State Goethe Institut Museum of Art KENTUCKY Photo Arts Center Contemporary Photographic Homecoming Fine Arts Museum Majestic Theater Louder Than Museum St Louis Winston-Salem Museum of Fine International Center Northwest Sanctuary at Rollins College at Honolulu 21c Museum Words State Teaif's Houston Center Mobile Museum of Forsyth School Art, University of Center Print Shop Museum of Art for Photography Seattle Art Art Cummer Museum LOUISIANA Mass MoCA New Hampshire of Photography University Kansas City NORTH DAKOTA Museum San Francisco of Pennsylvania Jolt Initiative Moms Demand FATvillage IDAHO Contemporary Art Massachusetts Art Institute Magnum North Dakota Museum NEW JERSEY Zinc Contempo- Action, Alabama MING Studios Center College of Art Foundation State University York College McNay Art of Modern Art Florida Interna- Kemper Museum Express Newark rary (at the Seattle Chapter and Design Museum tional University Sun Valley Center Joan Mitchell of Contemporary MORE Art Inc. Plains Allentown Art Fair) The Montclair State Montgomery for the Arts Center Norman Rockwell Art Art Museum Art Museum Modern Art Contemporary Florida State University New York Live Arts WASHINGTON, Museum Museum Museum Jewish Museum University University of Idaho, Newcomb Art Modou Dieng OHIO Pennsylvania D.C. of Fine Arts Newark Museum New York of Fort Worth Prichard Art Museum at Tulane Phillips Andover in collaboration Academy of Fine The Whitney Frost Art Museum University Art Academy Aspen Institute Uniontown Public Gallery & Dept. of University Academy with the Kranzberg Princeton Arts Red Sand Project Modern and of Cincinnati Library Independant Art and Design Arts University Pace University George Gutfreund MAINE School of the Pennsylvania State SouthWest Organizer- Foundation Cincinnati Art Washington University Cornett Art Museum of Fine Project for Empty Pratt Institute University School of Art Diane Tuft ILLINOIS Bowdoin College Museum University of Alabama, Arts at Tufts University of Space University 6018North projects + gallery PUERTO RICO Texas State Museum Center for Maine University moCa Cleveland The Phillips Birmingham of California, Missouri, St. Louis Rutgers University Galleries, Texas of Contemporary Chicago Contemporary Art Schomburg Center Beta Local Collection Warner Presenta- Berkeley UMASS University Webster Pizzuti Collection State University Art North Miami Department of Shine Portrait tion Room of The Colby College Museum of University Sing for Hope La Puerta Duke Ellington Undefeated Cultural Affairs Studio DAAP Galleries Univ. of North Cordell Wynn Museum Contemporary Art School of The Arts and Indigo Arts Wydown Middle Summit Gallery at University RHODE ISLAND Texas, College Humanities and Whitney Modern of Fine Arts, SMUSH Gallery Special Events Alliance Walk Unafraid School of Cincinnati of Visual Arts WEST VIRGINIA St Petersburg SUNY Purchase Brown University Fine Arts Center COLORADO University and Design Chicago EXPO Maine College Williams College Wave Pool Apartment at Stillman College National MONTANA Galleries at The Gordon Parks Mary Beth Meehan Colorado College of Art Museum of Art Foundation UTAH Earth Gallery Wiregrass YoungArts Jenny Polak, Regin Missoula William Paterson OKLAHOMA RISD Museum CONNECTICUT The Red Record University Utah State Museum of Art Foundation Igloria, Sam Love, MICHIGAN Art Museum The Incorrigibles Philbrook WISCONSIN Calumet Artist SOUTH University Birmingham Public Amistad Center for Norton MARYLAND Montana State NEW MEXICO The Tang Museum Museum of Art Milwaukee Residency CAROLINA Arts Museum of Art Cranbrook Art University, Billings VERMONT Art Museum Library Baltimore Museum SITE Santa Fe at Skidmore OREGON and Culture Museum Columbia Museum Jeffery Manor of Art College Usdan Gallery ALASKA Perez Art Museum Native American University C3:Initiative of Art WYOMING Class Action Branch, Chicago LigoranoReese Detroit Institute Race Relations and UB Art Galleries at Bennington Anchorage Tampa Museum Public Library of New Mexico Art Gibbes Univ. of Wyoming Collective & Union of Art Healing Series at University Joan Truckenbrod College Museum of Art Maryland Institute Museum Museum of Art Art Museum

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