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Radical Justice and Community Engagement with Accra Shepp and Dread Scott Register for Event - Click Here Two artists whose work engages in current community with abundant echoes of the United States’ long historical arch in order to suggest where we’ll find ourselves in the years to come: in celebration of Accra Shepp’s first monograph, Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice, we are pleased to have him in conversation with Dread Scott. Shepp’s Radical Justice brings together two bodies of socially-engaged photographic portraiture documented during New York City’s Occupy Wall Street movement starting in 2011 and its racial justice/BLM protests since 2020. His empathetic depictions of fellow citizens standing up for the fair protection of the Constitution provide a prophetic mirror of current events, reflecting back centuries to where the American experiment began, to suggest where we’ll find ourselves in the future. Scott, no stranger to the power and change possible when art...

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