Throughout history, illustrators and cartoonists have responded to the world’s challenges and upheavals with brilliance and ferocity. Navigating the technical and distributive realities of their times, artists create potent visual symbols and narratives that establish new visual metaphors and repurpose old ones, sometimes borrowing conventions from other media.

Discuss the legacy of the Four Freedoms with illustrators, authors, and scholars who will share perspectives on historical and contemporary notions of freedom, and on the role of imagery to shape public perception, decision-making, and cultural narratives.