by Deb | Mar 26, 2019 | Artistic Witness, Political Art
When the US went to war in Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, I started paying very close attention to the actions of my government. I learned that the motivations of the US war in Afghanistan were much more complex than the explanations...
by Deb | Jun 15, 2017 | Palestine, Political Art
What is happening in Palestine breaks my heart. I have traveled there three times in the past 6 years. I mourn the destruction of that culture by the occupying force called Israel. If you would like to learn more about that region of the world through hearing of my...
by Deb | Mar 26, 2014 | Chelsea Manning, Political Art
by Russell Fuller | Mar 26, 2014 “We are, increasingly, a visual people, overloaded with imagery at every turn. Thus the army’s (and administration’s) strategy to turn what should have been a trial available to the public for witness, conversation, and debate into a...
by Deb | Oct 16, 2013 | Artistic Witness, Chelsea Manning, Political Art
In 2010, a soldier then known as Bradley Manning disclosed to Wikileaks nearly 750,000 military documents, many of which were classified. These included the now-infamous video footage of the Baghdad airstrike in which a military helicopter crew guns down civilians,...
by Deb | Oct 15, 2013 | Chelsea Manning, Political Art
Artistic Witness: Court-Martial of Private Manning, Debra Van Poolen by Russell Fuller | March 4, 2014 Coverage by warpplace.com of Deb’s work documenting Manning’s trial ArtPrize 2014 Jurors’ Shortlist By John Serba | September 30, 2014 Van Poolen’s drawings from...
by Deb | Oct 10, 2013 | Chelsea Manning, Political Art
April 5 is the fourth anniversary of Chelsea Manning’s leak of the Collateral Murder video of footage from an Apache helicopter which shows trigger-happy soldiers killing twelve civilians. Manning, former US intelligence officer, also leaked massive troves of...
