Hank Willis Thomas
Artist; Co-Founder, For Freedoms
Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist working primarily with themes of perspective, identity, commodity, media and popular culture. His work has been exhibited globally, such as at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art, and his public art practice includes permanent artworks around the country, including “The Embrace” in Boston. Thomas’s collaborative projects include “Question Bridge: Black Males” and For Freedoms, an artist-run platform for civic engagement and action. He is the recipient of the 2022 Medal of Arts Award from the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies, a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, the AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize and the Soros Equality Fellowship.
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Creative expression takes many forms. Through history, art has provoked a range of feelings: emotion, empathy, fear, surprise, joy, compassion, anger. Now, amidst a time of n...
Aspen Institute President Dan Porterfield and Festival Director Kitty Boone kick off the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival. This session features conversations with Jeffrey Goldberg,...
For Freedoms Town Halls are intended to drive civic engagement and dynamic dialogue through artful acts. In this meeting, works of art will be displayed with the intent of cat...