For Immediate Release: September 19, 2025
From Courtroom to Canvas: Civil Liberties Defender John W. Whitehead Explores Freedom and Technology Through Art
PORT ST JOE, Fla. — John W. Whitehead, constitutional attorney, author, and founder of The Rutherford Institute, is sharing his lifelong engagement with freedom, technology, and human dignity with the arts community in a new gallery exhibit featuring his recent series, Freedom Amputated.
Known nationally for his legal advocacy and writings on civil liberties, Whitehead brings the same urgency and vision to his paintings. His recent series—including Freedom Amputated, What Is Humanity?, and Biochip Entity—confronts viewers with haunting, abstract visions of dehumanization in an age of surveillance and technological control.
 Whitehead’s mixed-media works will be on view at The Joe Center for the Arts in Port St. Joe, Florida, as part of the gallery’s members’ exhibition. All works in the exhibition are available for purchase through The Joe Center for the Arts. A portion of each sale benefits the gallery.
“My work emerges at the intersection of abstraction, symbolism, and social critique,” Whitehead, the author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People, explains. “Each canvas is less a picture than a question: a mirror held up to a society sleepwalking into technological servitude, and a reminder that resistance begins with reclaiming what makes us human.”
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