Public Art and Getting Out The Vote with Conrad Benner

Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 8 a.m.

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Rachael Gallagher and Elizabeth Varaso are joined by Conrad Benner, who is a blogger, a podcaster, an organizer, a curator, and a photographer. They discuss\\xa0 "Mailbox Voters", a project created to educate voters on all the ways to vote, "To The Polls 2020", a display of temporary murals in Love Park using public art to encourage people to vote, and how Conrad balances non-partisan views with his own personal passion for politics, before diving in more deeply about using art as a form of resistance.

To check out the Common Threads mural discussed in this episode, go to: https://www.muralarts.org/artworks/common-threads/

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