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HELP US STOP BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

Help bring Dignity For All, our bullying prevention program, to 1,000 schools across the country!   With purchase of this set of 4 tee shirts with art by iconic artists- Derrick Adams, Kenny Scharf, Todd Pavlisko, and Deborah Kass – you will help launch our Dignity For All anti-bullying program to create safe and supportive school communities.

Derrick Adams

Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary New York-based artist working in performance, video, sound and 2D and 3D realms.  His practice focuses on the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface, exploring self-image and forward projection.  A recipient of a 2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and 2014 S.J. Weiler Award, Adams received his MFA from Columbia University, BFA from Pratt Institute, and is a Skowhegan and Marie Walsh Sharpe alum.  His exhibition and performance highlights include: Greater New York '05, MoMA PS1; Open House: Working In Brooklyn '04, Brooklyn Museum of Art; PERFORMA ‘05, ‘13, ‘15; Radical Presence & The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum in Harlem; The Channel, Brooklyn Academy of Music; and is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Birmingham Museum of Art.  His work can be seen in New York at Tilton Gallery; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Gallerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris; and Vigo Gallery, London.

Kenny Scharf

Kenny Scharf, an American painter, began his trademark Cosmic Caverns, immersive black light and Day-Glo paint installations that also function as ongoing disco parties.  The first was known as the "Cosmic Closet" and was installed in 1981 in the Times Square apartment he shared with Keith Haring.  During this period, he also had important shows at Fun Gallery (1981) and Tony Shafrazi (1984), before seeing his work embraced by museums, such as the Whitney, which selected him for the 1985 Whitney Biennial.  He is known for his participation in the interdisciplinary East Village art scene during the 1980s alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.  His do-it-yourself practice spanned painting, sculpture, fashion, video, performance art, and street art.  Growing up in post-World War II Southern California, Scharf was fascinated by television and the futuristic promise of modern design.  His works often consist of pop culture icons, such as the Flintstones and the Jetsons, or caricatures of middle-class Americans in an apocalyptic science fiction setting.  Scharf is also known for welcoming collaborations with popular culture and merchandising opportunities.  He did the cover art for the B-52s' fourth studio album, Bouncing off the Satellites and, in 2002, he created and wrote the pilot for an animated series called The Groovenians for Adult Swim.

Todd Pavlisko

Working in a variety of media, Todd Pavlisko subversively mines the inner workings of the “institution”– be it cultural, social, or corporate.  In 2004, Pavlisko exhibited Fountain, an industrial drinking fountain dispensing red wine.  Then, in 2007, he built an elaborate contraption that produced a mysterious leak through a small hole in a gallery’s ceiling support beam.  Using wine as the dripping fluid, Pavlisko continued an ongoing lexicon regarding the stereotypical staples surrounding the institution of art and the art market.  Likewise, in the same exhibition, an assisted readymade consisting of gold-plated loose change lied serendipitously on the floor.  The subtly altered coins are, in their natural state, an exact anthology of all the money the artist found in a year’s time.  On more metaphoric terms and by way of the incongruous surface treatment, broader themes of value, worth, and stability can easily be read into this unassuming sculpture and his practice more generally.

Deborah Kass

Deborah Kass is an American artist whose work explores the intersection of pop culture, art history, and identity.  Deborah Kass works in mixed media, and is most recognized for her paintings, prints, photography, sculptures and neon lighting installations.  Kass's early work mimics and reworks signature styles of iconic male artists of the 20th century including Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and Ed Ruscha.  Kass's technique of appropriation is a critical commentary on the intersection of social power relations, identity politics, and the historically dominant position of male artists in the art world.  Kass's later paintings often borrow their titles from song lyrics.  Her series The Feel Good Paintings For Feel Bad Times, incorporates lyrics borrowed from The Great American Songbook, which address history, power, and gender relations that resonate with Kass's themes in her own work.  Kass's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Jewish Museum (New York); Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Cincinnati Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums; and Weatherspoon Museum.

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Tee shirts are 100% cotton.

sizes available are M, L, XL

Size S will be available soon