Contributing Artists

Victoria Cassinova is a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary artist working in painting, graphite, digital art, and collage. Her work explores themes of alchemy, transformation, and healing through bold, emotive compositions.

Shepard Fairey is a contemporary street artist, graphic designer, activist, and founder of OBEY Clothing and Studio Number One creative agency. Fairey has painted more than 135 public murals and become one of the most sought-after and provocative artists globally, changing the way people converse about art and view the urban landscape.

Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) was a pioneering American pop artist known for his boldly colored parodies of comic strips and advertisements. A leader in the Pop Art movement, Lichtenstein became known for his deadpan humor and his slyly subversive way of building a signature body of work from mass-reproduced images.

Cleon Peterson is an LA-based artist whose paintings show the struggle between power and submission in the fluctuating architecture of contemporary society. His stark figures on minimalist color palettes often depict dystopian scenes reminiscent of Thomas Hobbes’s view of life as “nasty, brutish and short.”

Tracie Ching is an artist and illustrator working in Washington, D.C. Largely self-taught, she is known for her portraiture and highly graphic cross-hatching style. She made her home in pop culture and then grew her portfolio to include commercial art.

Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally acclaimed for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. She is a distinguished professor at Ohio State University.

Beverly McIver’s portraits offer a candid look at the artist’s upbringing in the American South and her ongoing journey to self-fulfillment. Even while grappling with themes of racial violence, severe disability, and cyclical grief, McIver’s vibrant paintings center the triumphs of self-acceptance and the endurance of human connection.

Ed Ruscha is an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement. The New Yorker called him one of the most innovative and influential artists to have emerged in the 1960s. His work includes paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, artist’s books, and films.

Carrie Mae Weems is a widely influential American artist whose work gives voice to people whose stories have been silenced or ignored. Investigating history, identity, and power, she finds connections between personal experience and the larger structures and institutions that shape our lives.

Michael Dixon is an oil painter born and a professor of art at Albion College. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Emergency Grant, a Puffin Foundation Grant, a Blanchard Fellowship, and a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar of the Year Award.

With a practice spanning media and disciplines, the work of Deborah Kass is notable for her pointed feminist critique. Through her use of appropriation, she often mimics the work and styles of male artists to comment on and rewrite the patriarchal narrative of art history.

Debbie Millman is the host of Design Matters, one of the first and longest-running podcasts in the world. She is also chair of the first-ever master’s in branding program at the School of Visual Arts, editorial director at Print magazine, an executive fellow at the Harvard Business School, and the author of seven books.

Vincent Valdez blends large, representational paintings—the scale of which recall Western traditions of history painting as well as mural painting and cinema—with contemporary subject matter. He focuses on subjects that explore his observations and experience of life in the twenty-first century. The results are powerful images of American identity that confront injustice and inequity while imbuing his subjects with empathy and humanity.

  • Beware of False Prophets (and False Profits)

    Cleon Peterson

  • Protect Your Rights

    Tracie Ching

  • My Choice

    Victoria Cassinova

  • Let Equality Bloom

    Brooke Fischer

    (commissioned by Amplifier.org)

  • Liberty

    © Ed Ruscha

  • Save Democracy

    © Debbie Millman

With heartfelt thanks to Amplifier and its contributions of commissioned art images.

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Brooke Fischer is a fine art painter and graphic designer. She grew up in Boulder, Colorado, and studied at the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver. Notice Designs is her graphic design company. She is a passionate advocate for the environment and equal rights.

Mike Pinette is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, muralist, and brand designer. With his wife, Julia, he founded Sea by Land Studio, which blends visual storytelling, intuitive design, and grounded brand clarity.

Mazatl is a contemporary Mexican artist who creates large-scale woodcut prints and graphic murals focused on environmental, social, and political justice from a nonhuman perspective. A member of Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, he dedicates a major part of his efforts toward collaborating with other artists and movements that seek justice in local communities.

Raised in Florida, Nina Yagual is a self-taught artist who is for the people through and through. Her calling for BIPOC liberation and freedom is an ongoing theme in her work.

Roger Peet is an artist, printmaker, muralist, and writer living in Portland, Oregon. His visual work tends to focus on civilized bad ideas, predator-prey relationships, and the contemporary crises of biodiversity and capitalism.