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Bay Area Artists Respond to the Trump Presidency

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An image created for the '100 Days Action Inaugural Ball.’  (Image: Courtesy of 100 Days Action)

As President Trump nears his seventh week in office and budget cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts loom, Forum checks in with Bay Area artists about their work during the Trump
Presidency and the connections between art and activism. We’ll also hear about an ongoing KQED Arts project called “First 100 Days: Art in the Age of Trump.”

Guests:

Chloe Veltman, senior arts editor, KQED

Marc Bamuthi Joseph, poet and dancer; chief of program and pedagogy, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Ingrid Rojas Contreras, writer, literature critic and co-founder, "100 Days Action"

Daniel Riera, music director, flute player & electronic wind instrument player, Soltron

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