“When Will You Make Amends?” by artist and For Freedoms Executive Director Claudia Peña in partnership with Unfinished. From For Freedoms Awakening, 2020. Photo: Alyssa Meadows

An image of a billboard reads "When Will You Make Amends?" in text set against a floral background

Portrait of Hank Willis Thomas

For Freedoms is a call to action for people who are creatively inclined to become civically engaged.

“Midéegaadi: Lightning Bison” by Cannupa Hanska Luger, 2022. Installation view at Amarillo Museum of Art. Photo: courtesy of Fotografiska

Midéegaadi: Lightning Bison

One of the last remaining former residents of Queen City, William Vollin, (left) speaks at the opening of the installation, joined by the artist who designed it, Nekisha Durrett (right). The exterior of Durrett’s installation can be seen in the background. Photo: Michael Anthony 

William Vollin speaks at the opening of the Queen City installation, joined by the artist behind the installation, Nekisha Durrett

In  Queen City, 903 tear-shaped ceramic vessels sculpted by seventeen Black ceramicists hang inside a brick sculpture, a commemorative installation created by artist Nekisha Durrett honoring each of the former Queen City residents. Photo: Michael Anthony 

Ground level view of the Queen City installation

The Making of Four Freedoms 

Conversation-starting billboards are just the beginning for a nonpartisan organization that’s bringing together art and civic engagement.

General Operating Support

“Freedom of Worship” by Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and Wyatt Gallery of For Freedoms. From Four Freedoms, 2018. Archival pigment print.

An artwork depicts the side of faces of people of different ethnic backgrounds, many wearing a range of scarves, turbans, and other culturally significant headpieces. 

OpenGraph YouAreNowEnteringaDemocracyReimagined

You Are Now Entering a Democracy Reimagined

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 

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