MOCA Pacific Design Center
This exhibition traces the searing graphic art made by Emory Douglas while he worked as Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until its discontinuation in the early 1980s. The Black Panthers cultivated a strong graphic identity for their group and their politics during this period, bringing their concerns to the public through newspapers, posters, and pamphlets that advocated for Black liberation, social welfare, prison abolition, and revolution at large. Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas illuminates the role Douglas played in developing the group’s style, which played a vital part in conveying events and galvanizing protestors and volunteers. The exhibition further contextualizes the artist’s work amidst contemporaneous graphic movements in Cuba, Vietnam, and Africa, which shared aesthetic and political ties to the Black Panther movement in the US.
The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue.
Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas is organized by artist Sam Durant.