Palestine LOUDER!! Challenging the Violence of False Narratives, Censorship, and Silence

Join this round table discussion with Chris Gazaleh, Palestinian American artist; Sholeh Asgary, Iranian American artist and one of the artists protesting YBCA BAN9; Dena Al-Adeeb, an Iraqi born feminist scholar-activist, artist-cultural worker, educator, community organizer, and mother; Nora Barrows-Friedman, journalist with @electronicintifada; and Lucía González Ippolito, artist and community organizer.

On Feb 15, 2024, eight protesting artists included in the Bay Area Now 9 exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts covered and altered their works on view as a pro-Palestinian act.

On Feb. 26th, the YBCA staff authored a letter of support for these artists, despite YBCA’s director and Board publishing a statement that discusses the removal (censorship) of these artworks from the BAN9 exhibition. Since then, these artists have called for a boycott of the museum.

*For more information regarding Feb. 15th, see this article from KQED Arts.