Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Alex Da Corte, and Other Philadelphia Artists Are Selling $300 Prints to Support a Local Bail Fund

A group of Philadelphia artists are rapidly producing work in
response to the current uprisings against policy brutality and
selling it as affordable prints to support the Philadelphia
Community Bail Fund.

Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Alex Da Corte, and Tiona Nekkia McClodden
are among the artists selling prints in editions of 20 as part of
the Art for Philadelphia Bail Fund, which runs through July 4. The
project is the brainchild of curator Meg Onli, who had the
idea after seeing striking images of protests on social media
Sunday evening.

The works by all seven artists are new artistic responses to
current events. Marcus Maddox photographed a scene of
protesters attacking the bronze statue of former Philadelphia mayor and police commissioner Frank
Rizzo, which the city has since removed. (That print is already
sold out.) Becky Suss’s work isn’t even ready yet—the website
has a placeholder for now. The works are priced at $300 each
and are printed by the Chicago-based company Loupe.

Other efforts to support the Black Lives Matter movement and
other anti-racist activities include the Chicago gallery Document
Space’s relief print by photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
The artist is selling an open edition of his work Studio
(0X5A4983) (2020) in exchange for a minimum $250 donation
to organizations such as Fair
Fight and the Alliance of
Californians for Community Empowerment. Meanwhile,
artists Addie Wagenknecht and Marian Bailey are offering limited-edition prints and
drawings in exchange for donations made through social media.

See more works available through the Art for Philadelphia Bail
Fund below.

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