We must draw a new America as we are the picture makers.
—Bryan Stevenson
From Pride to Election Day 2026, the Brooklyn Museum marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence with Drawing America: US@250.
A season of art installations, programs, and partnerships, Drawing America honors those who have imagined a more equitable future and fought for the promise of our democracy—and those who continue to do so today.
Take a tour
Launching June 6: Bring your headphones and take a self-guided tour across our collections. Through the lenses of LGBTQ+ liberation, civil rights, immigrant experiences, the women’s movement, climate justice, and Indigenous perspectives (coming soon), the tours feature insights from artists, curators, educators, writers, and more.
Stephen Powers, a.k.a. ESPO, has got you covered. The Free Speech Factory Outlet pop-up in the Museum Shop will feature special-edition signs designed by the artist, beginning later this month. Delivering urgent calls for change and messages of hope, Powers’s posters serve as rallying cries for an evolving nation.
Take this as your sign to visit.
Common Sense is organized by Catherine Morris, Department Chair and Sackler Senior Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Kimberli Gant, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art.
Donald Moffett: IMPEACH is organized by Kimberli Gant, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
From the top: Donald Moffett. US., 2026. Vinyl wall mural. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York, Anthony Meier, Mill Valley. © Donald Moffett, 2026. (Photo: Paula Abreu Pita); Paul Ramírez Jonas. The Commons, 2011. Cork, pushpins, paper, wood, and metal armature. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of The John & Melissa Ceriale Family Foundation and Leo Koenig, 2020.21. © Paul Ramírez Jonas. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); The US Senate floor proceedings during Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, 1999. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons); Winter (detail), from What season is it, America?, 2026. Eight-part banner installation. © Keith Yamashita; Image: courtesy of Stephen Powers
