Hannah Arendt Drawings

2025

My organization, the International Human Rights Art Movement, was surprised and thrilled to receive a National Endowment of the Arts grant to produce work around the American hero Hannah Arendt (as designated by Donald Trump, Executive Order 13978, January 18, 2021). She was chosen as one of 244 heroes from American history to be so honored.

Her work is deeply thought out, seemingly contrary to many of the current administrations policies and goals, and sometimes quite controversial (such as her ideas of the “banality of evil”, her views on social discrimination (for), her take on personal responsibility, free will and the inherent rights of humans etc.

This grant, and getting to know her work and life better, inspired me to create this series of drawings, as part of my personal, and our organizational, exploration of this seminal 20th-century philosopher.

To learn more about her work, please visit the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.