14634633Molly Crabapple drawings for "A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez"14634633Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-02-23 18:17:04 -0500.Description is written in: English, Latin script. Rare Book and Manuscript Library Molly Crabapple drawings for "A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" Crabapple, Molly 14634633 MS#2014 English . 0.42 Linear Feet 1 flat box 2019-2020 15: 110E, 01, 01 Content Description

22 gouache, acrylic, and ink drawings on 12"xl6" sheets of Arches watercolor paper. Drawings were originally used in the animation "A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez". Originally presented by Naomi Klein and The Intercept, the short film is illustrated by Molly Crabapple, produced by Sharp As Knives, and was released April 17th 2019 in promotion of the Green New Deal. The set also includes a printout of the storyboard, and 4 additional rough sketches.

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 Biographical / Historical

Molly Crabapple is an author and artist whose recent work includes Brothers of the Gun, A Memoir of the Syrian War, that was long listed for a National Book Award and was the focus of an exhibit and exhibition catalog at Haverford College. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the New York Historical Society, Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, and is hanging in the Colorado State House.

 Scope and Contents

A Message from the Future is a work that coincided with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's House Resolution 109, "Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal." The animated video is a collaboration between Ocasio-Cortez and staff at The Intercept, including Naomi Klein, as well as co-directors Kim Boekbinder and Jim Batt. Ocasio-Cortez and Avi Lewis co-write the script and the original artwork is by Molly Crabapple

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Purchase, Molly Crabapple, 2020.

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 Green New Deal Art Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria, 1989- "A Message from the Future" SetList of Contents:Storyboard for "The Green New Deal. v. 1.0 (produced by Sharp As Knives, LLC)11Storyboard for "The Green New Deal. v. 2.0 (produced by Sharp As Knives, LLC)11AOC/GND Video Script - AOC copy edits and re-write12AOC-GND - Storyboards v3 (emails)13Miscellaneous sketches (7)14Title Card15Train car15You can't be what you can't see15Green New Deal with quote bubbles161977 New York16Oil executives16Dr. Hansen17Scope and Contents

(Damaged: torn)

Board Room with cash17Rhinos17Puerto Rico18Scope and Contents

(Damaged: torn)

12 years to cut emmissions change everything18Pyramid18Mother, Soldiers, Rosie19Solar and wind workers19Woman with shovel and Indigenous people19Students at desk110Chalkboard/wheelchair110Hurricane, first responders11013 faces111Ileana at podium111Older train car111We can be whatever we have the courage to see112Two heads112