WE DEMAND AN END TO POLICE BRUTALITY NOW!

WE DEMAND AN END TO POLICE BRUTALITY NOW!

Please share, repost, and donate to this fundraiser. SaveArtSpace is a 501(c)3 nonprofit art organization representing artist Adeshola Makinde's powerful civil rights messages on billboards across the country, where Black Lives Matter protests are being held. We plan on exhibiting these billboards for over a month in every major city to the areas most affected by their local police precinct. 

-(Complete) Initial goal is to raise $5,000 to install these artworks in 5 major cities. Starting with Chicago, Minnesota, Oakland, Los Angeles, New York!

Every $1,000 thereafter will support the message in another city.

-(Complete) $10,000 to install artworks in Atlanta, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Miami, and Indianapolis.

-(Complete) $15,000 to show Adeshola's work in Ferguson, Baton Rouge, Charleston, Portland, Nashville!

-(Complete) $20,000 to show Adeshola's work in Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Louisville, Flint, Seattle!

-Our next goal is $25,000 to show Adeshola’s work in Richmond, Jackson, Birmingham, Tulsa, Houston!

-Our main goal is to raise $50,000 to install this message in every state! To fight against racism and the unnecessary force of police brutality.



•Tier 1 - $5 - WE DEMAND AN END TO POLICE BRUTALITY NOW! Sticker 3 X 5 inches

•Tier 2 - $25 - WE DEMAND AN END TO POLICE BRUTALITY NOW! Protest Sign 11 X 17 inches

•Tier 3 - $50 - WE DEMAND AN END TO POLICE BRUTALITY NOW! Sticker & Protest Sign

•Tier 4 - $100 - "Dare to be More ." Archival Giclee Fine Art Print 8.5 X 11 inches

•Tier 5 - $500 - "Dare to be More ." Archival Giclee Fine Art Print 8.5 X 11 inches & "REACHING FOR LIGHT " Archival Giclee Fine Art Print 11 X 14 inches 

•Tier 6 - $1000 - Framed "REACHING FOR LIGHT " Archival Giclee Fine Art Print 11 X 14 inches

This is from a series entitled ‘RELEVANT’. With this body of work I wanted to go back to the Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968); when African Americans were fighting for constitutional and legal rights that other Americans already had at the time. I particularly referenced protest signs from this era to spark a discussion of why they’re still relevant more than 50 years later. I want to show that far too often we look back at that time as if it was centuries ago, when in fact it’s a fight that’s ongoing.

Adeshola Makinde  is an artist based in Chicago, Illinois. He was raised in the Chicagoland suburbs. He got his start taking photos at parties, concerts, fashion shows and other cultural events. His work today tends to challenge the viewer to question and/or have a conversation with the systems they find themselves in.

Connect with Adeshola on Instagram @adesholamakinde .

Artist: Adeshola Makinde 
Series: RELEVANT
Title: WE DEMAND AN END TO POLICE BRUTALITY NOW!
Size: 16 X 20 
Medium: Silkscreen on Canvas
Year: 2019 

Original work exhibited in a SaveArtSpace  public art and Playground Detroit gallery exhibition. “Signs of the Times” curated by Ellen Rutt in July, 2019.

This fundraiser was conceived by SaveArtSpace advisory board member Nicole Buffett 

If you have any questions please visit our website and email us at [email redacted]. Thank you!