People from across the country came together to protest the bigotry and inequality of the Trump administration this past Saturday at the third annual Women’s March in Washington D.C. Among the dissenting signs and banners as far as the eye could see was the burgeoning social phenomenon tiny trump making its march debut. Created by SVA staff and faculty member Eric Corriel—the senior digital strategist of SVA's design studio, the Visual Arts Press, who also teaches classes in BFA Design, BFA Visual & Critical Studies and MFA Design—tiny trump is an art installation that engages the public and encourages people to place these totems all around their communities. "I do not see a big man when I look at Donald Trump," says Corriel, regarding the diminutive designation. "Quite the opposite. I see a small-minded and petty man. So small. I see tiny trump. And I am not alone."

With a group of SVA students and 500 tiny trump cutouts in tow, Corriel made his way to D.C. to protest and further amplify the project. “The Women’s March has become the single largest, annual showing of resistance to this administration and I wanted to make the biggest statement I could," Corriel says. "That meant Washington D.C., the Women’s March, making 500 tiny trumps, and engaging an energetic group of passionate people to help put all the pieces together.”

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