Undergraduate Fine Arts | PennDesign
Undergraduate Fine Arts | PennDesign
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THANK GOD, they said, in big red and blue letters calling out from a clean white background. PRAY FOR ALL. HOPE FOR THE BEST—AND VOTE FOR SCIENCE.
“It’s definitely the biggest type project I’ve ever worked on,” says David Comberg, a senior lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts. “I think the letters are six feet high.”
The billboards were designed by the collective Class Action, a group that Comberg joined when he was a graduate student in the early 1990s. The work was funded with a $10,000 grant from the Union of Concerned Scientists, as part of an effort called Art for Science Rising, focused on promoting outdoor art that puts science “front and center in decision making processes that affect us all.” Not coincidentally, the billboards were posted in the month prior to the 2018 midterm elections.