The Postcards from America photographs, as well as works from Carrie Mae Weems, Rashid Johnson, Xaviera Simmons, Bayeté Ross Smith, Fred Tomaselli, and Marilyn Minter, were exhibited at Jack Shainman Gallery in the summer of 2016.
The billboard in Pearl, Mississippi—which superimposed Donald Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again" over Spider Martin's image Two Minute Warning of Bloody Sunday—incited local and national controversy.
In 2017, For Freedoms Federation, LLC was created to engage with educational partners in order to activate the cultural infrastructure of the country in the pursuit of social change.
"[11] Through dozens of iterations of Rockwell's original four paintings, the 82 images in the campaign attempted to reflect the immeasurable diversity of American identities today.
The new version of the images were widely shared on social media and Instagram, including by celebrities such as Alicia Keys and Jada Pinkett-Smith.
The campaign, inspired by the 1860s youth-led organization which championed the election of Abraham Lincoln, the Wide Awakes, features billboards as well as digital advertising spaces.
Among the artists who planned to participate in the 2020 Awakening campaign included Christine Sun Kim, the Guerrilla Girls, Alfredo Jaar, Edgar Heap of Birds, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Marilyn Minter, and Carlos Motta, as well as curators Jasmine Wahi and Rujeko Hockley.
[15] An accompanying digital publication, the Infinite Playbook, outlines how individuals and institutions participate in collective action to increase voter engagement and build a cultural and political identity around listening, healing, and justice.