The award was presented last month on the closing night of the Great Labor Arts Exchange near Washington, D.C. The conference focused on different ways to use the arts to build the labor movement.
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| Ricardo Levins Morales with the Joe Hill Award. Photo by Chris Garlock |
Although the Minneapolis-based Northland Poster Collective – which Morales has been involved with since it’s founding in 1979 – is closing down, Morales reported that he’ll soon be opening his own studio. Other elements of the collective also will continue as separate entities.
The standing-room audience at the National Labor College rocked out to rousing performances by a wide range of artists, from the North Carolina-based Fruit of Labor Ensemble to the ad hoc CCO chorus (which had serenaded tourists at the White House earlier that day), Pam Parker and the DC Labor Chorus.
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Rich Trumka thanked the assembled labor artists for their creative contributions to the labor movement, noting that “we need you now, more than ever.”
Chris Garlock edits the DC Labor News, http://www.dclabor.org/
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The award was presented last month on the closing night of the Great Labor Arts Exchange near Washington, D.C. The conference focused on different ways to use the arts to build the labor movement.
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| Ricardo Levins Morales with the Joe Hill Award.
Photo by Chris Garlock |
Noting that the Joe Hill Award is for lifetime achievement in the arts, Morales jokingly wondered “if I can stop now,” and pledged to keep creating movement art “on behalf of all those whose shoulders we stand on.”
Although the Minneapolis-based Northland Poster Collective – which Morales has been involved with since it’s founding in 1979 – is closing down, Morales reported that he’ll soon be opening his own studio. Other elements of the collective also will continue as separate entities.
The standing-room audience at the National Labor College rocked out to rousing performances by a wide range of artists, from the North Carolina-based Fruit of Labor Ensemble to the ad hoc CCO chorus (which had serenaded tourists at the White House earlier that day), Pam Parker and the DC Labor Chorus.
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Rich Trumka thanked the assembled labor artists for their creative contributions to the labor movement, noting that “we need you now, more than ever.”
Chris Garlock edits the DC Labor News, http://www.dclabor.org/