From the April 24, 2016 article "A 'Super PAC' Where Art Meets Politics," by Celia McGee:
An unusual new “super PAC,” run by artists, has cropped up on the political landscape — and it’s one that says it won’t support (or oppose) candidates or parties.
The super PAC, For Freedoms, which registered as a political action committee in January, is raising funds for national advertising, much of it based on original artworks, offering diverse views on issues such as campaign reform, racism, gender equality, gun control, reproductive rights and freedom of expression. The artworks are planned to be shown in a gallery exhibition.
Founded by Hank Willis Thomas, a photographer and conceptual artist, and Eric Gottesman, a video artist and activist, the super PAC is named after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” wartime address in 1941 — a call to safeguard the freedoms of speech and worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear.
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