Artist/activist reception to benefit Tanager Place LGBTQ Center

An intimate reception and lecture with visual artist and activist Daniel Arzola will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Thew Brewing, 301 Second Ave. SW, Cedar Rapids.

Tickets are $50 and are available at https://shop.thewbrew.com/an-evening-with-daniel-arzola. A portion of ticket sales will cover a workshop Arzola is providing to the kids at the Tanager Place LGBTQ+ Youth Center.

Arzola is a visual artist, human rights activist, and lecturer. His work combines modern and traditional art using digital illustration printed with organic inks on canvas, posters, and murals. The pieces are sold in exclusive signed and numbered series. His work has been translated into 20 languages and supported on social media by Madonna.

At the Friday reception, heavy hors d’oeuvres will be provided and beverages will be available for purchase. Arzola also will be selling his artwork on site.

Arzola popularized the term “artivism” as the creator of No Soy Tu Chiste — the I’m Not a Joke project — a series of posters that challenge homophobia and transphobia. He has presented his Theory of Artivism in lectures at Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, Amherst College, the University of Alberta, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela.