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00000179-2419-d250-a579-e41d38c20001The Gallery @ NPR Illinois is in the studio complex and facilitates listeners engaging with Illinois art. Additionally, artists works from each exhibit are digitally captured and posted here and shared with other public radio stations.Each exhibit kicks-off with an opening mixer where listeners are invited to attend and refreshments are provided. Each exhibit is open for viewing for a few weeks after the opening during business hours: weekdays 8 AM - 5 PM. Viewing by appointment can also be arranged by contacting Carter Staley. Many newsmakers come through the studios to be interviewed on-air and see the art during an exhibit as do attendees for other events like Live at the Suggs.To participate in a future exhibit or stage one of your own, click here to submit your art exhibit idea.Featured Artists:Bill AblerRL BostonDelinda ChapmanRita DavisColleen "Cookie" FerratierSandra FinneyRich FordCathy J. GanschinietzAneita Atwood GatesGeorge KingRachel LattimoreGinny LeeDouglas Levi (Brackney)Gwen LewisBenjamin LowderMarcia McMahon MastroddiDebbie MegginsonHugh MooreShannon O'BrienMaggie PinkeSheri RamseySue ScaifeMary SelinskiCarolyn Owen SommerJan SorensonElizabeth TroneKate Worman-Becker

100 Expressions: Glenn Cassidy

"In Men We Trust" by Glenn Cassidy

Glenn Cassidy, Springfield

Title: In Men We Trust

Medium: Print

Narrative: John Adams wrote “A government of laws and not of men” in the preamble to the Constitution of the State of Massachusetts. The US Constitution reflects this philosophy as well-the citizens should be ruled by law, not by decree. Unfortunately, we have seen over the past two decades that the functioning of the US government and even the state governments depends to a great degree on behavioral norms. Now, we have a president who has proposed violating freedom of religion and freedom of the press and who threatens to make the US government a subsidiary of his business empire. Checks on his power depend on enforcement of the law by the president’s own appointees to law-enforcement agencies, his own appointees to the courts, and members of Congress showing the will to challenge their own party’s president. We trust in behavioral norms many times a day inside and outside government and don’t appreciate how much we invest in that trust until our trust is violated.

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