Opening Reception: “Echoes of Hysteria”

FREE EVENT

The Salem Art Gallery sought artwork through an open call for art. We asked for artwork inspired by the historical concept of Witch Hunts and moral panics. This resulting exhibit is a hand selected collection of artwork from the hundreds of submissions we received. Various artists explore themes of fear, persecution, and societal hysteria in this new Salem Art Gallery Exhibition.

This event features complimentary charcuterie and refreshments, and chances to meet the artists.
Poster Image by Michael Broom

A Witch Hunt is a campaign directed against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views. “The Satanic Panic was a period lasting from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s characterized by a series of modern-day witch trials. ‘Satan hunters,’ emboldened by the rise of the New Right in 1980, persecuted hundreds of day care operators. Their actions propelled a Satanic conspiracy theory into the cultural mainstream and has had a lasting impact on conservative politics….Satanic conspiracism created a type of political capital that the New Right exploited to other its enemies and advance its causes.”

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