Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation in partnership with SCOPE Art Show, is honored to present The Time is NOW. Coinciding with RPAF’s 20th Anniversary, The Time is NOW highlights 20 Rush Alumni contemporary artists who are addressing the issue of social injustice within the United States. Through a variety of media including, sculpture, mixed media, photography, assemblage, drawing, printmaking, and video. The Time is NOW sheds light on the current events that plague our society.
Artists include Derrick Adams, Kimberly Becoat, Sanford Biggers, Michael Paul Britto, Collin Chase, William Cordova, Brandon Coley Cox, Molly Crabapple, Sophia Dawson, Nicky Enright, Stevenson Estime, Duron Jackson, Shani Jamila, Ann Johnson, Gautam Kansara, Coby Kennedy, Miguel Luciano, Christina Massey, Michael Mut, SolSax, Dread Scott, and Stan Squirewell.
The Time is NOW was inspired by the RESPOND exhibition at Smack Mellon in Dumbo, Brooklyn, NYC. After the recent verdicts regarding police brutality, Smack Mellon postponed a planned exhibition in order to respond to the continued failure of the United States to protect its black citizens from police discrimination and violence.
Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation has a 20 year history of providing support to emerging artists, and arts education programming to thousands of inner-city youth. Now, Rush and its Rush Arts Galleries have partnered with SCOPE Art Show to present Rush Projects as a highlight of SCOPE’s Featured Programming. Rush Projects will curate a series that showcases emerging artists of color, offering them incredible exposure at SCOPE New York and SCOPE Miami Beach 2015. Accompanying each project will be a focused social media initiative, aimed at expanding awareness of under-represented contemporary artists.