Art with a social justice bent has “the potential for sparking conversation—bringing people in from all over who can talk about the issues that are up,” Weinberg says. “Lately we’ve been talking to legislators and suggesting that they could come together in a bipartisan way and actually meet in the gallery and have their conversations because it’s a neutral ground. We’re not taking a stand, telling them to do this or do that—we’re just presenting information they can think about.”
