Have you made Barack Obama art?
Maybe you have done art around George Bush.
I have done both. Around "W" I created a panel for the Peace Tower Project at the Chicago Cultural Center by Mark Di Suvero (Click on "Peace Tower" link above).
I have been making what I call Peace Masks
for a number of years since the Iraqui war began, and I have a couple of sketches and a painting of Obama that I can't seem to get finished.
My son, Kyle Anderson, did a Barack...(left).
Chicagoan Lowell Thompson continues to display his Barack Obama.
Dreams Can Come True
He took it into McCormick Place for a guerrilla show this summer and has had a show at the South Side Community Art Center along with numerous other artists, and at Neleh Gallery in Chicago.
Dawoud Bey's Obama portrait has also been a fund raising tool.
I think we haven't been inspired to create art around a political figure on this scale and with this amount of reverence, since J.F.K. and Martin Luther King.
Artist, Patricia Stewart sent this Obama art:
I guess I'd better finish mine.
What do you think of all the Obama art?