Voters heading to the polls this election season in battleground states like Michigan and Pennsylvania may find themselves facing billboards, projections and even cornfield cutouts designed by the country’s leading artists with a simple refrain: “Enough is enough.”“We are at a precipice in this country, and we are either going to move forward or we are not,” said the artist Carrie Mae Weems, who has created new artworks for the “Enough of Trump” initiative alongside nearly a dozen other influential artists like Deborah Kass, Jeffrey Gibson and Shepard Fairey in collaboration with People for the American Way, a progressive advocacy group started by the television producer Norman Lear. The nonprofit organization plans to exhibit its collection of nearly two dozen artworks across the country this fall as Americans decide who their next president will be. “Art has the power to connect with people’s hearts as well as their minds,” said Mr. Lear, who helped found the organization in 1980 to oppose the growing political power of such right-wing religious groups as the televangelist Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority. “This campaign will get people thinking and talking and feeling in their guts how much they’ve had enough of this president. And we’ll remind them that the only remedy for that is to vote.”

Source: New York Times July 20, 2020 15:22 UTC