WIDE AWAKES POSTER PACK

Regular price $40.00 Sale

Seven 18"x24" unsigned offset posters in an open edition from Amplifier’s Wide Awakes series by Roger Peet, Tian Widjaya, Obey Giant, Osheen Siva, Giri Dwinanto, Galih Putra, and Aaron Glasson will be given to anyone who donates $40 to help us move activism through art.

In 1860, as the United States careened toward the Civil War, a group of young patriots launched a movement to wake up the country. “The Wide Awakes” of 1860 were mechanics, laborers, and clerks who opened their eyes, stood up, and marched and sang in the streets with flags and capes and banners by the tens of thousands. Eventually, hundreds of thousands agitated for a little-known presidential candidate from the newly formed Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln. They were creative with their use of art, song, and public rallies, and pushed for the abolition of slavery at a critical moment in history.

160 years later, we face a choice as a nation: chaos or community? Once again, it’s time for a wake up, a reset, and a reimagining of what is possible.

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