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Close Event “Arts and America at 250: We Stand at the Intersection of Creativity and Politics” Arts and America at 250: We Stand at the Intersection of Creativity and Politics November 6, 2026
Artists have always responded to great inflection points in American history, and the 250th anniversary of our nation, at a particularly polarized time, is no different.
Like art at the moment of the bicentennial, which carried its own fraught politics, artists across the performing and fine arts have responded in a variety of ways, from participation in official events programmed by the Trump administration to piquant commentary on a nation in perpetual conflict with its own founding ideals. Hear from artists, curators, and journalists who will explore America@250 through the cultural, political, and aesthetic lens of now.
Featuring visual artist and professor Mark Thomas Gibson; Natasha Egan, Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago; Kevin Iega Jeff, choreographer and founder of the Deeply Rooted Dance Theater; and Maria Gaspar, interdisciplinary artist and a professor in Contemporary Practices at SAIC. Moderated by Katie Benner, correspondent at The New York Times.
Part of Court Theatre’s America@250 – Now is the Time: Artists Go to Workprogramming.
Header image: “Tropicalamerican” by Edra Soto.
