Myanmar Poster Campaign
We’re really looking forward to our upcoming conversation with the founders of the Myanmar Poster Campaign. In advance of our interview, they’ve kindly shared some background about their mission. If there are any questions you’d like us to ask during the talk, let us know!
“We started this Myanmar Poster Campaign within a week the coup started. Our campaign focuses on raising awareness of the current events of Myanmar and supporting our people, front liners, protestors, workers, charities, donors and activists, while we also aim to help our artists gain global reach.
Once the coup started, my friend and I were trying to find out what we could do as visual artists; she is in Yangon and I am in New York. As we both went to separate art schools in New York, we both were fascinated by Art and Activism since we grew up in Myanmar under military regime. Additionally she has been involved in the artists' community back in Yangon after her studies. Having been related, we started to think about how we could fight against the military coup as well as how we could raise awareness to the world what oppression is like. When we came across artists’ works being shared on a social media group, Art for Freedom, and as well as some individual artists on facebook, we decided this is the moment we should create this campaign, and let the world hear the voice of our people, the voice of our Myanmar artists, participating in the Spring Revolution.
We are reminded everyday to record this historical movement in which our people are getting stronger, louder and braver to reject this military dictatorship day by day. We believe that we as artists have the responsibility to bring people together through art.
Within 100 days, our campaign is also joined by international artists; from Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Germany, United States and many more. We post all these artworks on Instagram in order to protect their works.
We are in the process of printing selected works from our campaign on T-Shirts with the permission of some artists for fundraising purposes. Our donations will go to people in need in Myanmar, especially in rural areas of ethnic communities. We are trying to outreach to showcase these artworks in galleries to support the Myanmar Spring Revolution and hoping the international artist community will join this movement.”