Art for Advocacy What is the Issue? Credits: honeycolony.com Most images from Art for Advocacy 13 Posters for Sustainable Social Change

Asher Jay, USA, 2010 “I created this poster to mourn the large pods of dolphins that succumbed to the corrosive effect of COREXIT, suffering from severe internal bleeding, skin lesions, burns, and tissue erosion.”

Jude Landry, USA, 2010 “I personify the oil spill as a sea monster to convey how the Gulf States are in the grips of dangerous oily octopus, and how these states have put themselves in harm’s way to help feed America’s need for oil.”

World War II posters promoting home gardens so that food can be sent to refugees and the need to grow gardens at home

Joe Wirtheim, USA, 2008. “I consider this one of the most important messages I have made as a designer activist: There is ground all around us that can and should be cultivated. It is in empty city lots, on rooftops, in window boxes, and in other surprising nooks and crannies. While the image is inspired by a 1944 ‘Garden for Victory’ poster, the slogan is something a mentor said to me about creating new art. ‘Even if it is not as good as you hoped,” he said, ‘it is important that you are breaking new ground with your art.’ I hope that the duel meaning is not lost, that ‘new ground’ is both a physical place and the places our imagination has yet to go.”

American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers during World War II, as widespread male enlistment left gaping holes in the industrial labor force. Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent, and by 1945 nearly one out of every four married women worked outside the home. “Rosie the Riveter,” star of a government campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for the munitions industry, became perhaps the most iconic image of working women during the war.

Leo Lin, Taiwan, 2009 “Increasing temperatures result in rising sea levels with potentially catastrophic consequences for low-lying shore communities. Some island nations will be submerged if the sea level continues to rise.”

Anthony Burrill, UK, 2010 “We screen-printed this poster using oil from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster. Proceeds from the sale of the print supported the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring coastal wetlands.”

David Blaiklock, Australia, 2012 “Within my local community and country, and throughout the world, water use and its abuse are critical issues that remain unresolved. Individually, we may not feel empowered to bring about change; this is my contribution to sharpen community awareness and tip the seesaw of change.”

Lanny Sommese, USA, 2005 “Created for the Hurricane Poster Project, the poster was sold to raise funds to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the city of New Orleans. My image depicts the victims (humans, animals, and vegetation) trapped tenuously together, each vulnerable to the dangers that surround them.”