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Two identical posters, yet contrasting in color, depict a skull and cross bones. This symbolizes the deaths of those students at Kent State and establishes a sort of memento mori. The top two bones read “Kent” and “Chicago” while the bottom two…

Kent State, Ohio May 4, 1970 was one of the most memorable moments in America’s History. In 1970 of April 30th an announcement was made that the American Military would be invading Cambodia. That unsettled protesters on campus and around the nation.…

This piece, made through a silkscreen process, is titled “Why?” while it has an officer holding a dead little boy and the question is in fact why? Why are innocent people losing their lives over something they took no part in? These men are supposed…

This piece of art represents the death of Kent State student, because of his strike for peace and not war. The technique used was silkscreen, using orange paper and black ink. The art was made by a Columbia anonymous group called the Columbia…

After the death of four protesting students on the Kent State campus, campuses across the country responded in anger and protest. A group of students from Columbia College decided to form the Columbia Collective. This group of students used their…

There were many different posters in this collection that were collected together in a shop in the south loop where they were displayed as protest posters. The posters protested both the acts of violence against the unarmed students at Kent State as…

The protest poster, “The United States of America, You Don’t Count the Dead when God is on Your Side” was created by Columbia College Chicago Students as a creative way of voicing their position on the Kent State shootings of 1970. This poster is not…

This poster is made very simply, but the context behind the poster holds so much depth. In purple letters written diagonally, the poster reads, “AND WHEN IT’S YOUR CHILD?” In the bottom right corner is a mother with a dead child in her arms. The…

On the poster is a simple white background with the world ‘STRIKE’ on it, each letter gets increasingly larger as if it’s exiting from being shouted through a megaphone. The letter E is the largest, and from it lists Vietnam, New Haven, Cambodia,…

This “Special Edition” poster was created in response to the events of Kent State by a group of Columbia College Chicago students know as the Columbia Collective. Uncle Sam, the central figure of this work, has long been used as a recruiting tool for…