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TexasTowelie

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Sun Jan 22, 2017, 08:44 AM Jan 2017

Obama 'Hope' image debuts 3 new posters for Trump inauguration

The Charleston-born artist who created the iconic Barack Obama "Hope" poster has another message for Americans in time for Donald Trump's inauguration.

Shepard Fairey, who now resides in Los Angeles, has made three new works. Each poster is centered around the first three words of the preamble of the Constitution: "We the People."

The poster campaign was commissioned by the nonprofit Amplifier Foundation, which describes itself as an "art machine for social change."

The "We The People" campaign includes three posters by Fairey. In all of his posters minority women are front and center.

Read more: http://www.postandcourier.com/news/charleston-born-artist-who-created-iconic-obama-hope-image-debuts/article_d812dec8-df28-11e6-94e3-871f7112bee2.html

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