The NO!HATE Show

The Show

It was the No!Art movement — co-founded by Boris Lurie in 1960 to protest the commercialization of art, the threat of nuclear war, and the pretensions of American society — that gave this exhibition its name. And it was the impact of Jerzy Janiszewski's 1980 logo for Lech Wałęsa's Solidarity movement in Poland, which became a rallying symbol against Soviet domination throughout the 1980s, that inspired the show's second half: an open call asking artists to design a comparable symbol for Americans who reject hate as a political tactic.

The Center for Contemporary Political Art sits at 916 G Street NW — the same building where Dana lives and works at Mather Studios. She didn't have to travel for this one.

Krause — an Emmy-winning former foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and PBS, and founder of the Center — opened his gallery in 2011 after two decades reporting from Latin America, the Middle East, and the Soviet Union, and has since made it, in his words, the country's only institution dedicated exclusively to political fine art. He introduced the show; curator Robin Strogin walked visitors through the individual pieces, including Matt Sesow's work in the same room.