Ahead of November’s midterms, artists will run billboards in every US State plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, that, according to its organizers, is the “largest creative collaboration in US history.”
Organized by For Freedoms, an arts initiative founded in 2016 by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, 50 State Initiative has over 300 artists have worked on the billboards, placed up and down the country and designed for each individual state, including Trevor Paglen, Rashid Johnson, Tania Bruguera, and Theaster Gates. Only four states, Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, and Vermont, do not allow billboards, but the organization says it will use banners instead.