Sentences with phrase «american identity»

«One's own home is central to our unique American identity,» says Dr. Spencer Crew, director of the National Museum of American History.

In order to examine ethnic and American identity as predictors of self - esteem among adolescents, we surveyed 669 American - born high school students (372 Latinos, 232 African Americans, and 65 Whites).

Multiple regression analyses of self - esteem were carried out separately for each ethnic group, using ethnic and American identity, other - group attitudes, gender, age, socioeconomic status, and grade point average as predictors.

For the White students only, American identity was a strong predictor of self - esteem and was highly correlated with ethnic identity.

Participants completed measures of self - esteem, ethnic identity, American identity, attitudes toward other groups, and demographic variables.

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While my African American and Dominican American identity constantly reminds me of the lack of diversity and inclusivity in our curriculums, professors, and thought leadership in legal education.

TreeHugger: Religion is such an enormous part of American identity, is environmentalism finding its place in patriotism and American values on the whole?

Tackling African - American identity and its intersection with gender, race, and politics, Lorna Simpson was the first African - American woman to show in the Venice Biennale (in 1993) and to have a solo exhibition in the Projects series of the Museum of Modern Art.

2003 African - American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, X, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY American Identity: Figurative Painting and Sculpture, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

Hoffmann and León de la Barra spoke with A.i.A. about the concept of the show, their hopes for a greater dialogue around Latin American identity, and the energy of Read more

Catherine Opie (b. 1961, Sandusky, OH; lives in Los Angeles) is known for her powerfully dynamic photography that examines the ideals and norms surrounding the culturally constructed American dream and American identity.

The subject of a mid-career survey at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2008, Opie continues to offer a radically honest view of American identity with her iconic imagery.

On Saturday, April 29th, 2 PM, Lehmann Maupin will host a reading featuring six poets whose work speaks to (or about) American identity and a sense of place: George Abraham, Safia Ehillo, Sonia Guinansaca, Jive Poetic, and Paul Tran.

Murray, Derek Conrad, Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African - American Identity After Civil Rights, published by I.B.Tauris, New York, NY, 2016 [ill., cover]

For Almanza, Rivera is a catalyst for the ongoing instrumentalization of Latin American identity and artistic practice.

Group Material also focused on art and elements of mass culture that they understood as overlooked, forgotten, and outside the mainstream in order to investigate critically how museums and exhibitions assist in the formation of American identity.

In this new work, Dardot will amplify the voices and experiences of San Jose's varied immigrant communities, and honor the challenges of their experience in the context of a divisive national conversation about immigrants and American identity.

From Glenn Ligon and Lorna Simpson to Kara Walker and Ellen Gallagher, African American identity politics feature prominently in a show that, as if ironically, is mostly black and white.

he work of Glenn Ligon, Mark Bradford, Paul Pfeiffer, Kehinde Wiley, and Wangechi Mutu touches upon issues of race, culture, and identity, including African - American identity.

To date, widely held interpretations of Drew's work center on the artist's African - American identity.

The first comprehensive survey of his work since his death, «There Must be a Heaven» includes oil and mixed - media collage, canvases that explore American identity, migration and the challenges and dignity of black life.

Johns» 1969 Flag (Moratorium) both replicates and deconstructs the American flag to question, celebrate, and subvert that iconic emblem of American identity and what it represents when a country's at war.

, an exhibition that aims to unravel over-simplified understandings of Asian - American identity.

This exhibition is my attempt, as an artist, at history, biography, and psychoanalysis of a trauma central to the American identity.

«GLENN LIGON: Encounters and Collisions» @ Nottingham Contemporary Nottingham, England Curated by Glenn Ligon, this exhibition brings together the work of 45 artists whose work «often deals with the shifting experience of American identity, examining loaded questions around language, power, race, gender and sexuality.»

The show investigates how images shape and challenge our understanding of reality, and more specifically our understanding of American identity.

Images of African American Identity and Community, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Posing Beauty, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; University of Southern California Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

The works on view include several of Walker's large - scale print series, cut - steel sculptures, a mural, and a video installation, displaying the range of approaches the artist has taken to exploring the legacy of slavery and its impact on contemporary American identity.

These are the stories that mix history and myth, and in doing so, reinforce our American identity.

The collection provides an important and unique exploration of American identity, culture and history.

The topic of food allowed American artists both to celebrate and critique their society, expressing ideas relating to politics, race, class, gender, commerce, and how these categories define American identity.

His sculptural installations and paintings attempt to bridge the generational gaps between his African ancestry, its diasporic history, and the influences of American identity.

LT: It's great to see both Portuguese and Spanish artists being represented at PINTA this year, as it just goes to show the connection that these countries hold with the Latin American identity.

The artists included in Spruill Gallery's current exhibition, LATinGA, are nominally bound by their Latin American identity.

The section takes its title from a Melvin Edwards» series of sculptures seen in the gallery, part of a larger series of his Lynch Fragments, which, through their materiality, touch on American identity, how slavery evolved into mass incarceration, and ideas surrounding economies of labor.

Anchored in Kanye West's gospel - inspired track Ultralight Beam, the award - winning video of Arthur Jafa traces African - American identity through a wide range of historical and contemporary imagery

Her vixen costume imbues each situation with sensuality, while her Mexican American identity inflects the work with a critique of cultural assumptions and stereotypes about Latina women.

Anchored in Kanye West's gospel - inspired track Ultralight Beam, the award - winning video of Arthur Jafa traces African - American identity through...

ULABY: That's promoting an artist who reflects American identity now, like a self - portrait took in her 40s while nursing her baby son.

On the fourth floor, an interesting gallery combines the photo collages of Lorraine O'Grady, juxtaposing images of Michael Jackson and Charles Baudelaire and their countervailing creative biographies — the latter had a «secret» mulatto wife — with an installation by the Bruce High Quality Foundation collective that also examines discontinuities and contradictions of American identity.

Telfair Museums Presents Exhibitions by Two Contemporary Artists Who Explore African American Identity — 11/17

Syms displays snippets of what the artist describes as «orphaned media», lost or discarded images of everyday life, randomly playing out as signifiers of American identity, or at least a filtered media - prescribed version, mimicked by Facebook and home videos.

The representation of African - American identity in advertising as well as in art is addressed in works by Sanford Biggers, Bruno Peinado, Hank Willis Thomas, and Fahamu Pecou.

By depicting his subconscious anxieties through populist images of rural America, Wood crafted images that speak both to American identity and to the estrangement and isolation of modern life.

Chronicler of American subcultures and vernaculars and their role in the construction of American identity, he has explored the depths of racism, sexism, and psychosis in mainstream humor; the mythical status of cowboys, bikers, customized cars, soft porn and celebrities.

The unique voices of the artists unite visitors across a shared American identity — in this way black unity is inherently American unity.»

The book connects everyday experience, social critique, and creative expression with classroom learning, and includes color reproductions of artworks; statements in English and Spanish from more than fifty contemporary artists; lesson plans for using art to explore subjects such as American identity, changing definitions of the family, AIDS, discrimination, racism, homophobia, mass media, and public art; and resources, including annotated bibliographies for further study.

Five steps in, you're hit with the big names: Nan Goldin, an iconic American photographer whose images of urban nightlife in the 1970s and»80s offer a window onto society's darker margins (Goldin is a friend of Berger and one piece bears a personal inscription); Rashid Johnson, a fast - rising conceptual artist whose prismatic work mines the meaning of the black American identity; and, notably, Robert Mapplethorpe, in a rare self - portrait emblematic of the artist's confrontational beauty.

A founding member of the artists» collective REPOhistory, Kuoni has curated and co-curated numerous transdisciplinary exhibitions on issues such as contemporary Native American identity and colonial, 19th - century portraiture; democratic, participatory processes; artistic and social networks; new notions of transient and temporary spaces; or agency.