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March 6, 2025 By squirt

Sperry Joins “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” Exhibition

My “Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy” print has widely traveled since I created it in 2021. First, it raised funds for the fight for the ERA in exhibits with Artists 4 ERA nationwide culminating in a show at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. Then, it took to the road on a voter drive in the Southern USA during midterms in 2022. Finally, it appeared at The Capitol in Washington, D.C. as a gift from US Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger to US Congresswoman Ayana Pressley, lead sponsor for the ERA in Congress.

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Recently, I was deeply honored to have been invited to include my work in “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights”, an impactful traveling poster exhibition curated and organized by Elizabeth Resnick, Professor Emerita of Graphic Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.

The exhibition opens soon in Pennsylvania:

The Gallery at Penn College
Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
March 17–April 17, 2026

Curator’s Statement: Women’s Rights Are Human Rights is a very fitting title for an exhibition of Women’s rights and advocacy posters, as it is a term used in the women’s rights movement and was the title of an important speech given by Hillary Rodham Clinton at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. In her speech, Hillary Clinton suggests that “If the term women’s rights were to be interchangeable with the term human rights the world community would be a better place because human rights affect the women who raise the world’s children, care for the elderly, run companies, work in hospitals, fight for better education and better health care.” 

Yet gender inequalities remain deeply entrenched in every society. Women lack access to decent work and face occupational segregation and gender wage disparities. Women are often denied access to basic education and health care, suffer from violence and discrimination, and are under-represented in political and economic decision-making processes.

This exhibition features posters created by both men and women to celebrate and acknowledge the vital role that all citizens should play in protecting and promoting human rights while actively challenging gender inequality and stereotypes, advancing sexual and reproductive rights, and protecting women and girls against brutality. In their collective visual voice, these posters promote women’s empowerment and participation in society while challenging religious and cultural norms and patriarchal attitudes that subordinate, stigmatize or restrict women from achieving their fullest potential. 

Organized and curated by:
Elizabeth Resnick, Professor Emerita, Graphic Design
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston

Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy
18 x 24
Offset Print
Open Edition

Would you like one? It’s available here:

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Artists 4 ERA, Chuck Sperry, Elizabeth Resnick, Equal Rights Amendment, Vote Equality, Women's Rights Are Human Rights

October 14, 2024 By squirt

Sperry Weekend Events: “Home Show” Retrospective, TRPS, and “Ratified” at The Roxie

Home Show, A Chuck Sperry Retrospective, 2024
19 x 35
Edition of 300
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective is opening this week! The exhibition includes rock posters, art prints on paper and wood, deep cuts from the artist’s 40-year career, and the West Coast premiere of several hand-woven tapestries. Running from October 17-November 24, 2024, the exhibition is Sperry’s most comprehensive exhibition since his Color x Color retrospective at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in 2022 and his first local exhibition since the acquisition last spring of four of his pieces by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two of which were featured in Art of Noise this summer.

“Joy” 2024
Edition of 300
9 x 11.25
Vegetable based inks
80# unbleached cotton paper
BC Blotter Co.
Signed and Numbered

Joy, 2024
20 x 30
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Pneuma, 2024
30 x 20
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Check out all Chuck Sperry’s upcoming events below:

Friday, Oct. 18, 1 PM – 9 PM: Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective
Only a couple of tickets left to get a chance to purchase a piece of Chuck’s work yourself! Check out the ticket availability HERE! From 6-9 PM is a free opening reception for Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective. Join us in kicking off a poster-filled weekend!

Photo: Shaun Roberts

Saturday, Oct. 19, 10 AM-6 PM: TRPS Fes­ti­val of Rock Posters 2024
Chuck Sperry will concentrate on poster and print offerings at TRPS this year: he’ll have many surprises, rarities, variants, one-of-a-kind test prints, black & white tests, and blotters — from Pearl Jam to Panic — to offer exclusively at TRPS on Saturday, October 19, 2024! San Francisco’s annual Fall Clas­sic, the Rock Poster Society’s Fes­ti­val of Rock Posters 2024 is set to go for Sat­ur­day at the San Fran­cisco County Fair Build­ing (aka Hall of Flow­ers) in beau­ti­ful Golden Gate Park.

Ratified, 2024
21 x 31.5
Edition of 300
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

Monday, Oct. 21, 6-8 PM: RATIFIED new screen print by Chuck Sperry
A Film Showing of RATIFIED co-presented by Roxie Theater and Spoke Art. Featuring a new limited edition screen print by Chuck Sperry, part of the ongoing Spoke Art curated Roxie Theater poster series. Posters are only available on Monday, October 21. 

RATIFIED is a feature documentary about the 100-year struggle for constitutional gender equality. It’s an inspiring story of a multi-racial, multi-generational, bi-partisan effort to make Virginia the 38th and final state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. It’s also a story of how bureaucracy is used to stifle progress and takes a close look at the incredible perseverance of women – specifically, the Black women leaders who have taken their rightful place at the front of the movement for gender equality.

Tickets HERE

Deepak Puri & Forest Stearns in a post-screening discussion facilitated by RATIFIED subject, Kati Hornung.

Kati Hornung, Executive Director of VoteEquality
Kati advocates for an equality table so large every American can find a seat. Her gender equality advocacy work was memorialized in the movie RATIFIED, as the cameras followed the successful VAratifyERA campaign and later VoteEquality. Kati has a professional background in accounting and software consulting. Although initially involved in advocacy because of her oldest child’s interest, she rediscovered a passion for feminism that had been simmering on a back burner since childhood. Kati is very “task oriented” and the task she most wants to accomplish is the complete dismantling of systemic gender inequality. Step one: closing the equality gap in our Constitution.

Deepak Puri, Co-Founder of Democracy Labs
Deepak is the co-founder of Democracy Labs, a SF based non-profit that connects progressive groups with free and affordable solutions. DemLabs works closely with grassroots groups to identify their needs, finds the best solution to meet them, and then freely shares how to use those new tools through a free blog with over 1,900 case studies. Deepak is a Silicon Valley veteran with fifteen years of experience at Netscape, Oracle, and VMware.

Forest Stearns, Artist
Forest Stearns is the Principal Artist at DRAWEVERYWHERE LLC where he produces unique artwork and leads collaborations between artists and institutions. He has a passion for founding Artist in Residence programs that connect art, science, and technology. Currently he is the Creative Innovation Consultant and Artist in Residence co-founder at Google Quantum AI in Santa Barbara, CA. Stearns is an academically trained prolific illustrator, an arts educator, creative facilitator and community builder. Also an engaged father and supportive partner, he was one of twenty-eight artists who launched the national Artists4ERA collection in support of the VoteEquality campaign and the fully ratified Twenty-Eighth Amendment (Equal Rights).

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Art of Noise, Artists 4 ERA, Color X Color, Deepak Puri, Equal Rights Amendment, ERA, Festival of Rock Posters, Forest Stearns, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Haight Street Art Center, Home Show, Kati Hornung, Muses, Ratified, Retrospective, Roxie Theater, SFMOMA, Spoke Art, The Rock Poster Society, TRPS, Vote Equality US

August 24, 2022 By squirt

Chuck Sperry Art To Help Register Voters Through Southern US

“Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy”
18 x 24 offset poster

Join us on Women’s Equality Day, August 26th at The Outrage in the nation’s capitol Washington DC from 2 pm to 6 pm. It’s a kick-off party where Vote Equality launches a massive Southern voter drive. In celebration, The Outrage is releasing my new offset, 18 x 24 version of “Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy” poster. It will be available at The Outrage, and throughout the Southern tour from Vote Equality.

The Vote Equality voter drive tour bus is designed by me (layout: Rachel Welsh de Iga). It features my poster design “Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy” at 7 feet tall, filling the back of the tour bus. My intricate flower patterns cover the bus, which is affectionately known as the Notorious RVG. See below:

Vote Equality will tour North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida on the first leg of their tour throughout the Southern US to activate and register voters. A second leg continuing through the South to be announced.

I am incredibly proud to give my art to the design of this legendary election bus on a historical mission in the midterm elections of 2022. It’s my aim to put my art into action: this is a giant tour with an important message of equality. 

The Outrage will be releasing my “Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy” 18 x 24 offset posters at the event on Friday, August 26, 2022, at 2 pm to 6 pm —  and after the party online through their online store. Money raised goes to Vote Equality.

The Outrage
1811 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20009
 Voter Drive Kick-off Party: Friday, August 26, 2022, 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Vote Equality will be distributing my “Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy” 18 x 24 poster on the tour bus at every stop along the tour. Please join Vote Equality along the tour, and get a poster!

2022 SOUTHERN TOUR

September 14th: Greenville, SC and Spartanburg, SC
September 15th: Marietta, GA
September 16th – 18th: Augusta, GA (possibly also Aiken, GA)
September 19th – 20th: Atlanta, GA
September 22nd: Macon, GA and Warner Robins, GA
September 24th: Tallahassee, FL
September 26th – 28th: Savannah, GA
October 4th – 9th: South Carolina
October 10th – 12th: Fayetteville, NC
October 13th: Lumberton, NC
October 14th and 15th: Wilmington, NC
October 17th: Jacksonville, NC
October 18th – 20th: Raleigh, NC and Durham, NC
October 25th: Elon, NC
October 26th: Greensboro, N
October 27th – 28th: Winston Salem, NC

About the poster:

Equality is the flower of democracy. Passing the Equal Rights Amendment—at long last—will be the path to gender equality for our American democracy. I am grateful to be called upon to include my voice in the collective call to bring about gender equality by amending the Constitution with passage of the ERA, and I was quick to reach out to fellow artists to join the call to action. 

Clio is the Muse of history, daughter of memory. I suggest we remember where we came from, how we got here, who we are, and where we are going. History is not only a collection of objective facts; history is also a story. How we organize those objective facts says a lot about who we are, or who we want to be. 

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Clio, Equal Rights Amendment, The Outrage, Vote Equality US

March 22, 2022 By squirt

Opening Night: Artists 4 ERA Support Passage of the ERA • Press Takes Notice

What an amazing night! Thanks to all my supporters for coming to the Artists4ERA art opening to support Vote Equality US! It was a huge honor to share a beautiful Oakstop opening with all the incredible artists. Such positive energy coming together and shining to ratify the ERA! (Photos by Shaun Roberts)

Read: The Daily Heller: Who Wouldn’t Want the Equal Rights Amendment to Pass?

Chuck Sperry discusses his legendary poster work, and his new creation in support of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Read: How 29 artists banded together to put the Equal Rights Amendment back in the spotlight

The artists, including Shepard Fairey, are bringing fresh urgency to the 99-year-old amendment that’s still waiting to be ratified.

Read: Artists 4 ERA Demand Equal Rights for All Americans: It Is Overdue That Gender Equality Becomes the Law of the Land

Filed Under: Press & Reviews Tagged With: Artists 4 ERA, Clio, Equal Rights Amendment, Fast Company Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Muses, Oakstop, Print Magazine, Vote Equality US

February 26, 2022 By squirt

“Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy” Release March 6

Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy 2022
21 x 32
Regular Edition of 300
6 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy 2022
21 x 32
Silver Edition of 20
6 colors on silver metallic paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy 2022
21 x 32
Gold Edition of 20
6 colors on gold metallic paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy 2022
21 x 32
Sparkle Foil Edition of 20
6 colors on holographic sparkle foil
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy 2022
21 x 32
Lava Foil Edition of 20
6 colors on holographic lava foil
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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There will be a very limited online release of my ERA poster and its variants on Sunday, March 6, 2022 at a random time between 9 am and 10 am PST.

Limited to one (1) per household. Subsequent orders will be cancelled.

50 prints / and a handful of variants are reserved for the first Artists 4 ERA event on the evening of Saturday, March 19, 2022 at Oakstop’s Broadway Gallery. Oakstop is located at 1721 Broadway in Oakland, CA.

Participating Artists: Shepard Fairey, Tara McPherson, Tracie Ching, Chuck Sperry, Kelly Tunstall, Ferris Plock, Deedee Cheriel, Kate Deciccio, Gabe Gault, Peregrine Honig, Jodie Herrera, Katty Huertas, Kefe, Amir Khadar, Steve Lambert, Nicole LaRue, Amanda Lynn, Gilda Posada, Claw Money, Tracy Murrell, Hannah Rothstein, Forest Stearns, Shannon Taylor, Miles Toland, Jennifer White-Johnson, Erin Yoshi, Dave Young Kim and more.

Here is the link to tickets for the March 19 event.

I want to welcome a lot of newcomers to my site! I’ll quickly explain how my releases on my website are conducted. My Equal Rights posters will be available, right here, in this post on Sunday, March 6, 2022 at a random time between 9 am and 10 am. A paypal “Buy Now” button will appear under the poster (above) at a random time. Variants posters will be revealed and appear with PayPal buttons at the same time. I will announce the price of each poster at the same time. Good luck to everyone, and as always, I am very appreciative of your support!

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I am very happy to announce the release of my poster to raise awareness for the Equal Rights Amendment. This issue means so much to me. Equality is the central issue of our day.

“Equality is the flower of democracy. Passing the Equal Rights Amendment — at long last — will be the path to gender equality for our American democracy. I am grateful to be called upon to include my voice in the collective call to bring about gender equality by amending the Constitution with passage of the ERA, and I was quick to reach out to fellow artists to join the call to action.”  — Chuck Sperry, artist statement for Artists 4 ERA

VoteEqualityUS is a nonpartisan grassroots effort promoting equal rights for all Americans, working to ensure the addition of the fully-ratified 28th Amendment (Equal Rights) to the United States Constitution. 

I created my ERA poster to intentionally refer to my art print, Clio, the Muse of history, daughter of memory. I suggest we remember where we came from, how we got here, who we are, and where we are going. History is not only a collection of objective facts; history is also a story. How we organize those objective facts says a lot about who we are, or who we want to be.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Artists 4 ERA, Clio, Equal Rights Amendment, Muses, Oakstop, Vote Equality US

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