Inspired by the 2016 presidential election this MTSU Todd Art Gallery exhibit includes work from Mid-western and Canadian printmakers Ruthann Godollei, Emmy Lingscheit, Ericka Walker, and sculptor Piotr Szyhalski. Nashville's Hatch Show Print is also providing work as diverse as posters from Roy Acuff's mid-twentieth century Gubernatorial Campaign to set items done for CNN's presentation of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. The intent is to showcase artists that currently work in graphic design, printmaking, and letterpress styles reminiscent or reflective of contemporary elections, campaigns, and social justice or economic causes. This may include wage struggles, taxation, Wall Street, cold war, second amendment or the environment to name a few where rhetoric is often strong and heated.

The adjacent glass gallery is hosting a number of authentic political items archived by the MTSU Albert Gore Senior Research Center as well as campaign memorabilia on loan from Dr. Mark Byrnes, MTSU Interim Provost, Dr. John Vile, Dean MTSU Honors College, and Kent Syler, Political Science instructor and former chief of staff to Tennessee Congressman Bart Gordon thereby linking the art and artists with campaign materials as signs of intent to influence.