The Beginning Is Near At Bates by Jamie Thompson The highly publicized Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City’s Zuccotti Park in 2011 inspired the international Occupy Movement, which advocated for social and economic equality. Although much of the media attention to various Occupy protests focused on the sensational aspects of the movement — its tent communities and virulent social media campaigns, for example — participants utilized decidedly fewer melodramatic tactics to spread their messages. Posters, signs and banners, modest forms of communication though they are, carried striking imagery and thoughtprovoking slogans. “The Art of Occupy: The Occuprint Portfolio,” on view through March 26 at The Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston, Maine, features some of the posters created and used during the protests. The Occupied Wall Street Journal, an affiliate of … [Read more...] about The Occuprint Portfolio