A retired presidential ship inspired artist Constance Hockaday to flip the script of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s fireside chats, just in time for the 2020 election. On March 12, 1933, in the midst of economic depression and deep national divide, FDR urged American citizens to turn on their radios. Read more...
Photo: Artist Constance Hockaday’s series with the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, “Artists-in-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020,” reimagines Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous fireside chats in anticipation of Election Day. In a role reversal, artists will be delivering a national address that answers the question: What can we put our faith in now? (Photo courtesy of Constance Hockaday, Photo Illustration by Nico Hy/Daily Bruin).