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Directed by Willie Baronet and Tim Chumley
Thursday, January 12, 7 p.m.
$9/$7 Speed and AIGA members
On a cross-country trip traveling 24 cities, artist and professor Willie Baronet purchased more than 275 signs held up by homeless people. In this documentary capturing the trip, Baronet and his crew create connections between the sign makers and their lives.
Baronet has purchased more than 1,000 signs over the past 20 years, and uses the collection to create installations that raise awareness about homelessness. The trip culminates in an exhibition at New York University. 2016, U.S., video, 62 minutes.
The director will introduce the film and lead a post-screening discussion. Willie Baronet is based in Dallas, Texas. He was recently named the Stan Richards Professor of Creative Advertising at Southern Methodist University’s Temerlin Advertising Institute. He has been buying and collecting homeless signs since 1993 as part of an art project named We Are All Homeless.
Co-presented with AIGA Louisville.