As fundamental rights are being rolled back and entire communities are pushed further to the margins, DISSENT offers an urgent chorus of voices. The exhibition invites each participating artist to respond to what feels most pressing, personal, or impossible to ignore in this climate. The result is an unflinching exploration of power, policy, and lived experience - and a collective reminder that dissent is a call to attention and action. The exhibit will highlight the Trump administration's destructive actions targeting the poor, people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community and other marginalized groups through erosion of civil rights, over-policing, state violence, suppression of speech, environmental injustice, and inhumane immigration policies.

Susan Washington presents her Content Not Found series-images removed from federal agency websites during the 2025 DEI purge by the administration. By salvaging cached files and transferring them onto canvas, Washington confronts government erasure and preserves those who were meant to vanish.

Kim Rice uses craft-based media to expose how whiteness and systemic racism are woven into daily American life. Her disarming, labor-intensive works transform everyday materials into stark meditations on power and privilege.

Estéban Whiteside coined the term “concrete oppressionism” to describe his bold, street-rooted works confronting systemic injustice. Whiteside creates unflinching political imagery that demands response.

Momma Rain paints vibrant figurative works shaped by her experience as a first-generation Filipina American. Her cherub-like figures, at first whimsical, reveal grittier truths about race, separation, and identity in America.

Don Patron is an artist and a friend to social causes who creates art inspired by social issues and charities in the Washington D.C. area, often basing his work on politically sensitive narratives.

FOREVER FEARLESS, a project of Our Daughters’ Futures Fund, is a national public art initiative that uses creativity to spark civic engagement and amplify young women’s voices. Through its traveling exhibition of statues, the project invites communities to take action through art.

Reed Bmore is a street artist from Baltimore who installs wire drawings on traffic lights and electrical lines across America. These installations instill a sense of nostalgia and wonderment, using the negative space in the skies as canvas.

Alongside the visual exhibition, Atrium Artspace will host a series of panel discussions and community activations centered on current issues and the role of art as activism. Those scheduled include panels on Marginalization and Erosion of Civil Rights, Art as Activism, and Faces of the Transgender Military Purge: Who Our Nation is Losing, moderated by Bree Fram, one of the highest-ranking out transgender service members in the U.S. military. Bree will also be presenting her new book.