Patrisse Cullors - CNN "80 artists wrote messages in the skies above ICE detention centers"
CNN | July 6, 2020
“Over Independence Day Weekend, 80 artists asked Americans to look up at the skies. Throughout July 3 and 4, messages related to immigration were written at 10,000 feet by World War II military planes, sky-typed over 80 sites related to the country's network of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities, immigration courts, and the southern border. The idea was to bring attention to these facilities, which may not be familiar to many Americans.
The project ‘In Plain Sight’ is led by Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artists Rafa Esparza and Cassils.
‘(We have) come together to fight the culture of incarceration and focus (our) attention on abolishing ICE,’ said Cassils over a video call.
The artists involved included Hank Willis Thomas and Dread Scott; Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors; artist and TV producer Zackary Drucker; and designer and former Black Panther member Emory Douglas. Each artist chose a message to have temporarily written in the sky above a particular site.”
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