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November 12, 2024 By squirt

Sperry’s “RATIFIED” Poster • Online Launch with EQL

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

I am honored to have been asked to create a poster for RATIFIED, a documentary film directed by Deborah Riley Draper and Sabaah Folayan currently premiering across the United States, and soon to be shown nationally on PBS. My poster was available at the San Francisco screening I organized, hosted by Spoke Art at the Roxie Theater. My limited edition, screen printed RATIFIED poster is now available online to my friends and supporters by EQL launch.

RATIFIED is a feature documentary about the 100-year struggle for constitutional gender equality, 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 it 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. Our impact campaign will activate 15,000,000 Americans on the issue of gender equality.

A portion of money raised from the sale of my RATIFIED poster goes to Vote Equality to support the urgent effort to publish the ERA.

I will make a limited online launch of my RATIFIED poster through EQL opening on Friday, November 15, 2024 at 9 am PST. The launch closes on Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 9 pm PST. The ballot will be open for 60 hours. As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase. There will be one live launch for the “RATIFIED” poster. You are free to register once for the launch. Multiple entries for the launch will be penalized. You may only win 1 poster from the live launch within this 60 hour period. One per household.

Visit the launch page for the release (countdown and launch):

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VOTE EQUALITY’S ERA ACTION IN DC

We have less than 70 days to demand publication of the 28th Amendment (Equal Rights). The Equal Rights Amendment, now our 28th Amendment, has met all constitutional requirements, according to the American Bar Association. President Biden has one last chance to stand for the equity and equality this amendment would provide all Americans, especially women and the LGBTQIA+ community. President Biden simply has to tell the Archivist to PUBLISH EQUALITY in the Constitution. Join us and activate.

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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!

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).

February 9, 2023 By squirt

Artists 4 ERA at Virginia Museum of History & Culture

Artists4ERA: Virginia Edition
February 17 – (extended to) June 4, 2023
Virginia Museum of History & Culture • Richmond, Virginia

About the Exhibit:

The founding ideal of the United States that “all men are created equal” has not always been a reality. People of color, women, Americans with disabilities, and other groups have had to fight for equal rights.

In 2020, Virginia became the 38th and final state needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)—the culmination of a century-long battle for women’s equality. Artists4ERA is part of ongoing efforts to ensure that the ERA becomes the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Participating artists from across the country have created images to raise awareness about the ERA and to promote gender equality.

This exhibit features 28 original works of art from the Artists4ERA collection, including 20 designs by Virginia artists. The vitality and diversity of these pieces embody an enduring commitment to a Constitution that guarantees equality for all.

Artists: Crudcity, Evergib, Faithe Norrell, Haadia Khan, Hamilton Glass, Jess Walters, Jowarnise, Mahari Chabwera, Meme, Michael-Birch Pierce, Nico Cathcart, Noah Scalin, Pete Morelewicz, Rachel Welsh de Iga, Roshi K, Sam Skrimpz, Silly Genius, Ashley Hawkins / Studio Two Three, Amir Khadar, Chuck Sperry, Claudia “Claw Money” Gold, Deedee Cheriel, Ferris Plock, Kelly Tunstall, Shepard Fairly, Sophia Pineda, Tara McPherson, Tracie Ching

Posters are available at the opening and online HERE

Tickets for the Museum Gala Opening are required to attend. There’s a limited number of tickets available so don’t miss out. Purchase HERE

Here below, Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger presents US Congressional ERA lead sponsor Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley with my “Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy” poster on behalf of Vote Equality and Artists 4 ERA, and announces the Artists 4 ERA exhibit at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture.

I will not be able to attend the opening, but I have partnered with Artists 4 ERA and Vote Equality for a special surprise!

Thanks to Three Notch’d Brewing Company and their support of gender equality, the brewer teamed up with Artists4ERA to create “Joyful Ruckus” IPA to celebrate the upcoming exhibit at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. I am honored to donate my “Flower of Democracy” design for this limited edition beverage which will be available at the Opening Gala event of “Artists4ERA: Virginia Edition” on February 17th.

Artists4ERA is organized by VoteEquality, a grass roots, non-partisan organization working to guarantee equality for all Americans by enshrining the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S. Constitution.

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.

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)