{"id":3017,"date":"2026-08-14T18:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/at-the-nasher-turn-the-volume-up-maps-free-speech-and-civic-action-through-art\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:51:33","slug":"at-the-nasher-turn-the-volume-up-maps-free-speech-and-civic-action-through-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/at-the-nasher-turn-the-volume-up-maps-free-speech-and-civic-action-through-art\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Nasher, “Turn the volume up!” maps free speech and civic action through art"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, a new survey titled Turn the volume up!<\/em> considers American democracy and freedom of speech through art as an agent of change. Organized by the Nasher, the exhibition brings together work by Spider Martin, Kara Walker, the Guerilla Girls, Carrie Mae Weems, Kiki Smith, Bruce Davidson, and many more. It opens on August 27 and continues through July 11, 2027.<\/p>\n

Five themes, many voices<\/h2>\n

The presentation is structured across five areas\u2014Remarks<\/strong>, Organize<\/strong>, Records<\/strong>, Dissents<\/strong>, and Petitions<\/strong>\u2014to foreground how artists deploy photographs, sculptures, installations, paintings, and more to shape public conversation and prompt civic engagement. Spider Martin\u2019s dramatic documentation of Freedom Marches during the Civil Rights Movement appears alongside Kara Walker\u2019s probing take on U.S. history and racial stereotypes. The Guerilla Girls\u2019 1980s posters, pasted around Manhattan to expose the lack of representation of women artists in visual art and across popular culture, underscore the exhibition\u2019s focus on tactics of visibility and advocacy.<\/p>\n

Bruce Davidson\u2014renowned for illuminating social inequality in visceral photographs, from the Jim Crow South to impoverished neighborhoods in New York City\u2014joins the dialogue with images from Time of Change<\/em>. Carol Summers\u2019 Kill for Peace<\/em>, created for the portfolio Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Viet Nam<\/em>, wields a bold red \u201cX\u201d over a photograph of a Vietnamese mother and her children as an anti-war demand.<\/p>\n