Projects tagged
Race & Ethnicity
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All Power to All People
Read more: All Power to All PeopleLocated in Thomas Paine Plaza, across the street from City Hall, Hank Willis Thomas’s All Power to All People was a public art intervention that dealt with racial identity and representation in Philadelphia. The artist’s Afro pick sculpture, standing eight…
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Reimagining Albus
Read more: Reimagining AlbusThrough her work, South African art activist Athenkosi Kwinana aspires to deepen the understanding of Albinism in her native country, where she has faced discrimination in most aspects of her life from childhood days on. Working with both drawing and…
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This Historic Marian Anderson Performance Made Her an Icon of the Civil Rights Movement
Read more: This Historic Marian Anderson Performance Made Her an Icon of the Civil Rights MovementMarian Anderson, the legendary African American contralto, sang at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in 1939 after she was refused a performance at Washington’s Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because she was black. Over 75,000…
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How Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Art Challenges Status Quo
Read more: How Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Art Challenges Status QuoJean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who rose to fame in the 1980s. He is known for his graffiti-inspired paintings that often engage with issues surrounding racism and inequality. Basquiat’s work challenged the status quo and incited a powerful social…
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I want a president
Read more: I want a presidentInstalled on the occasion of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, I want a president renders a poignant portrait of the cultural and political climate in the early 1990s in New York City with words that still resonate today. Zoe Leonard,…
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‘Can You Hear the Screams?’ Physician Says Western Leaders Complicit in Israeli Attacks on Gaza Hospitals
Read more: ‘Can You Hear the Screams?’ Physician Says Western Leaders Complicit in Israeli Attacks on Gaza HospitalsA Norwegian physician who has volunteered in Gaza for decades said Friday that Western leaders, including U.S. President Joe Biden, are complicit in Israel’s intensifying assault on the Palestinian enclave’s hospitals, which are overwhelmed with airstrike victims and displaced people…
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Voguing As Resistance
Read more: Voguing As ResistanceThere were still bloodstains outside the Midwood Mobil gas station on Friday night; a fresh sign taped to a lamppost read “A Hate Crime Happened Here.” This is the place where, less than a week prior, 28-year-old O’Shae Sibley, a…
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Moving Chains
Read more: Moving ChainsMoving Chains is a monumental 110-foot long kinetic sculpture that evokes the hull of a ship, built from steel and Sapele, a tree native to West Africa commonly referred to as African Mahogany. Inside of the sculpture, nine chains run…
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Read more: Citizen: An American LyricIn Citizen, Claudia Rankine recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seemingly slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the…
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THE GIVERNY SUITE
Read more: THE GIVERNY SUITEFilmed in Harlem, New York, and in Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, France, THE GIVERNY SUITE is a cinematic poem that advocates for the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Employing techniques including hand-painted film animation and montage editing,…