Art, Culture, Politics:
A Conversation with Shepard Fairey

Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative

• Date:
  Wednesday, November 4, 2009
  
• Time:
  7:00 PM
• Campus:
  University Park Campus
• Venue:
  Annenberg Auditorium

Shepard Fairey is a contemporary artist, graphic designer, and political and social activist. He emerged from the skateboarding scene in the mid-1990s and has since established his own “brand” as a cultural entrepreneur. His iconic images, like the “Obey” artwork, are central elements of a contemporary cultural and creative economy. As a cultural entrepreneur of the current era, Fairey has uniquely tapped into those relationships that historically have seemed so vexing — politics, consumption and marketing. Indeed, Fairey represents a new kind of cultural producer, at home with commerce and cultural politics simultaneously.

A reception will follow.