The Artist and Social Transformation

Art Works: "Last Wednesday, May 4, I participated in a Ford Foundation Fresh Angle panel discussion with fellow artists and activists Khalid Abdalla, Teddy Cruz, Ariel Dorfman, and Joy Mboya about “Artists on the Front Lines of Social Change.” Ai Wei Wei was, in fact, supposed to join us on the panel, but his arrest just weeks before made that impossible. His arrest also underlined the power of art and its capacity to threaten those invested in a repressive status quo.