Our movements for justice and liberation are fractured. People are isolated and under attack: hunted on the streets by immigration agents, threatened with deportation for their political expression. And it’s become increasingly clear that we can’t turn to our elected officials for guidance.
INTRODUCING VITAL CONVERSATIONS
At the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, we’re returning to our roots: gathering wisdom from our communities through honest, creative conversations. We're launching Vital Conversations, a new multimedia series where USDAC team members sit down with thinkers, artists, and organizers to ask big and small questions—and make beautiful things in the process.
Here’s a sneak peek at our first installment. A comic by Co-Director Jordan Seaberry titled WTF Can Artists Do During A Fascist Takeover?!
Each conversation will spark a public offering– videos, zines, comics, music– and we invite you to engage with us in real time. Watch with a friend. Host a dinner. Start your own conversation. Create something from it.
This isn’t about answers. It’s about each of us practicing collective imagination in a time of fear and fragmentation, modeling the kind of community that resists isolation and inspires action. Join us! Let’s learn, create, and organize together.
With solidarity,
The USDAC Team
