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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 the purchase of this set of 4 tee shirts with art by iconic artists- Slava Mogutin, Maynard Monrow, Andrew Brischler, and Deborah Kass – you will help launch our Dignity For All anti-bullying program to create safe and supportive school communities.

Slava Mogutin

Slava Mogutin (full name Yaroslav Yurievich Mogutin) is a New York-based Russian artist and author, who works across different media, including photography, video, text, installation, sculpture, and painting.  He is a gay rights activist who has dedicated his life to receiving fair treatment in his home country.  Since 1999, his photography has been exhibited internationally and featured in a wide range of publications including The New York Times, The Village Voice, i-D, Visionaire, L'Uomo Vogue, Secret Behavior, and BUTT.  Mogutin is the author of several hardcover monographs of photography, including Lost Boys and NYC Go-Go.  Additionally, he has written seven books in Russian.  On July 14, 2017, Mogutin published his newest monograph, Bros and Brosephines.  The book features a collection of photographs taken during the last two decades.  After becoming a US citizen in 2011, Mogutin officially changed his name to Slava. Mogutin and continues to work on his multimedia art and has publicly criticized the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin for his homophobic political policies.

Maynard Monrow

Maynard Monrow is a New York-based artist.  Informed by his interest in art history, critical theory, and culture, Monrow’s work features bon mots and apothegms ranging in tone from the sardonic to the polemical.  Playing off the staidness of traditional visual genres (a quality typically reflected in the titles of paintings, for example), the humor in his work stems in part from an attempt to visualize abstract ideas, paradoxes, and malapropisms.

 Andrew Brischler

Andrew Brischler explores what he calls “the pathology of abstraction” in his own mixed-media canvases, in which he ranges through the many manifestations of this mode of painting, foregrounding its enduring beauty while questioning its seriousness.  On battered, stained canvases, he paints hard-edged, minimalist forms weighted down by the thickness of their own paint; saturated fields of graded color, too rainbow-like to suggest sublimity; and abstract expressionistic scribbles and brushstrokes that appear either absurdly meek or exaggerated.  By working such intentional awkwardness and humor into his compositions, and tilting his paintings after song lyrics, pop cultural events, and lines from movies, Brischler simultaneously references and rejects the storied history of 20th-century abstraction.  Claiming, “Abstract painting can get really heavy with reference and psychological baggage,” he posits a lighter vision of abstraction for the 21st century in his own works.

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

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