Dread Scott is an interdisciplinary artist whose art encourages viewers to re-examine ideals of American society. In 1989, the US Senate outlawed his artwork and President Bush declared it “disgraceful” because of its transgressive use of the American flag. His artwork, The All African People’s Consulate (2024) was included in the Venice Biennial. His work has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Walker Art Center, Cristin Tierney Gallery and is in the collection of the Whitney Museum, The National Gallery of Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a 2023 Rome Prize Fellow and has also received fellowships from John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and United States Artists.

The National Museum, a participatory public art project founded by Pittsburgh artist Jon Rubin, critically asks which national stories, histories and futures are deemed worth saving and which are ignored or forgotten. The project features storefront signage, street posters, printed broadsheets, and public street performances. Every four months a different artist is invited to change the museum’s name, and a national writer is invited to use the new title as the inspiration for a published essay. The project has collaborated with some of the most important artists and writers of our time, including Dread Scott, Edgar Heap of Birds, Suzan Shown Harjo, and Walid Raad. Launched in 2023 in Pittsburgh, The National Museum is looking to move to cities across the U.S.