Refacing Our Currency: Drawing on Dollars
In 2012 Jeremy Hara began “refacing” dollar bills with new faces. He started off with Darth Vader, and then thought about the people he thought should be honored on our money. So next he drew Noam Chomsky and from there he picked numerous Americans that he felt were great. He chose activists, dissidents, artists, writers, directors, actors, musicians, comedians and athletes that he felt better represented America. He particularly liked choosing BIPOC and women as they are unrepresented on our currency.
Ai Weiwei
Amanda Palmer
Darth Vader
Noam Chomsky
Mark Twain
Charles "Hank" Bukowski
Kurt Vonnegut
Don Delillo
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Andy Warhol
Robert Crumb
Miles Davis
Frank Zappa
Slash
Maya Angelou
Malcolm X
George Carlin
John Belushi
Jimi Hendrix
Homer J Simpson
Hunter S Thompson
Georgia O'Keeffe
William Burroughs
Fred Hampton
The Dude
Carl Sagan
Thelonious Monk
Nina Simone
Lenny Bruce
Richard Pryor
Allen Ginsberg
Bobby Seale
Alice Walker
Charlie Parker
Albert Einstein
Howling Wolf
Ernest Hemmingway
Andy Kaufman
Angela Davis
Bruce Lee
Tom Friedman
Mathew Barney
Orson Welles
Huey Newton
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Luther King Jr.
Muhammad Ali
Cesar Chavez
Clara Barton
George Clinton
Geronimo
Jackie Robinson
Eva Hesse
Sojourner Truth
Chief Si'ahl (Seattle)
Gertrude Ma Rainy
Leonard Peltier
Gloria Steinem
Scott Joplin
Louis Armstrong
Jerry Garcia
Wilma Mankiller
Jack Kerouac
Emily Dickenson
Harvey Milk
Johnny Cash
Yoko Ono
Josephine Baker
Michio Kaku
Adam "MCA" Yauch
Etta James
Cochise
Alfred Hitchcock
Isadora Duncan
Bob Kaufman
Bob Dylan
Jello Biafra
Robert Johnson
Mitch Hedberg
Henry David Thoreau
Nicola Tesla
Duke Ellington
Frank Lloyd Wright
Harriett Tubman
Crazy Horse
Bruce Springsteen
Kurt Cobain
Groucho Marx