Walker Art Center Commissions Artist Op-Eds

[blockquote align=”left” cite=”~James Briddle, The Right to Have Rights”]Citizenship is the right to have rights, and our attitude to citizenship, as states and individuals, defines and produces our attitude to other human beings.[/blockquote][dropcap type=”rounded” color=”gray”]W[/dropcap]e congratulate the Walker Art Center for initiating a wonderfully innovative, commissioned artist op-ed series “examining the thinking of artists as citizens and change-makers“.

The opening essay by artist James Briddle, a London-based artist and writer, opines on citizen rights, states’ rights, and the politics between the two in “The Right to Have Rights”.

The essay is available for purchase as a print-on-demand pamphlet.

Imagine if nonprofits across the Commonwealth commissioned artists to write on the “state of our city” or “the state of our region” or “the state of being an artist”!