Art with a Message The arc of history bends toward justice. Messaged art just speeds things along. Art with sharp, implied and/or focused messages can afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. Messaged art helps us to envision a future free from the unconscionable tyranny of blind ignorance, oppression, and mindless discrimination. The late Carrie Fisher said, “Take your broken heart and make it into art.” In ART WITH A MESSAGE, strength, beauty, and truth walk hand in hand in hand. They can be packed with powerful visual inspirations and provocations in a wide range of styles covering a vast array of themes. ART WITH A MESSAGE can awaken the conscience of the world, celebrating diversity, tolerance, and art’s ineluctable promise of happiness. 

Free expression and topicality are traditions at OCCCA, an artist-run alternative space serving the contemporary art scene since 1980. 

Text Inspired in 2024, authored in 2017 by the late and revered Rob Mintz.