Sentences with phrase «confront issues of race»

Pope.L is a multidisciplinary artist who creates visual art and performance pieces that confront issues of race, sex, power, consumerism, and social class.

First, that women should make feminine art, and second, that African American artists should make figurative and «activist» art, works that confront issues of race, inequality, injustice and the long history of violence against black people.

Her research demonstrates that in order to confront issues of race, a school needs a comprehensive model that addresses race in the curriculum, pedagogy, school culture, and practices.

Although their approaches differ, what they all have in common, says Smith, is that they all had to confront issues of race directly.

Those of us who primarily serve low - income and working class black, Latino, Asian, and Native American students can not avoid confronting the issues of race and class.

In confronting issues of race, class, gender and sexuality in the books that we publish, it is our hope that we can be part of the process of change.

Two Feathers wryly points to the instability of public histories and confronts issues of race, power, and greed.

It confronts issues of race and injustice in Hugo's homeland — as well as «the failure of the South African colonial experiment».

Hurston describes leaving the protective black community of her childhood at age thirteen and suddenly confronting the issue of race.

Confronting issues of race and injustice, Pieter Hugo's latest exhibition, Kin, is on show in New York.

Not exact matches

That members of the PDP has agreed to rise up beyond personal interests to confront crucial national issues that affects us as a race especially the thriving menace of the Fulani herdsmen.

The film details how women from all walks of life confronted such issues as race and sexual preference as the fought for the equality they so richly deserved.

They say their school environments allow them to work out many of the issues of race they will confront them later in the larger society — even when those issues are complicated.

How can confronting challenging historical moments like these become a step toward truth and reconciliation around issues of race that we face today?

Margaret Bowland creates work that confronts contemporary issues of identity through probing and deeply personal pictures that question Western societal expectations of gender, race, power, and beauty.

Ms. Weems, 63, has long confronted thorny issues of race, class and gender through imagery and text, making her one of the most influential artists in America.

2016 Nov. 18 — Wadsworth Atheneum Presents 43rd Annual Festival of Trees & Traditions Nov. 1 — John Trumbull Paintings Central to «Visualizing American Independence» at Wadsworth Atheneum Oct. 5 — First U.S. Exhibition by Artist Dulce Chacón Explores Human Feats and Failures in the Frontiers of Air and Space Sept. 23 — Grant S. Smith to Lead Development, Revitalize Fundraising Initiatives at Wadsworth Atheneum Sept. 9 — First Major Photography Survey in 27 Years to Open at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Aug. 16 — Francisco de Zurbarán's «Saint Serapion» Returns to Galleries at Wadsworth Atheneum May 23 — Exhibition to Highlight Diversity of Contemporary Artists, Artworks May 10 — Works by Salomon van Ruysdael and Kehinde Wiley Among Newest Acquisitions by Wadsworth Atheneum April 21 — «Vanessa German / MATRIX 174» to Confront Social Issues of Race and Violence Beginning June 9 March 25 — Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Names Anne Butler Rice New Director of Education

«Helter Skelter I, like many of Bradford's works, confronts the economic and social structures that perpetuate issues of power, race and crime.

Punchbag added further complexities to questions of raced, gendered and cultural identities raised by Glenn Ligon's Skin Tight: Muhammed Ali Text (1995)[Figs.85 - 86], a punchbag and text piece which specifically sought to address «how black men have used boxing to confront issues of black American identity» and «the construction of masculinity in relation to questions of violence, the commodification of black subjects, sexuality and resistance.»

These works on paper directly confront the issues of marginality within the intersectional context of race and sexual identity.

... the character of the jokes was significant — fifties - style, middle America, blue collar, Borscht Belt humor that confronted issues of sexual identity, class and race... By isolating them he exposed their hidden malevolence, perversity and anger.

Gilbert & George continue to confront the fundamental issues of existence: death, hope, life, fear, sex, money, race and religion.

Today's artists of African descent still discuss and confront issues regarding race and art, having to reconcile their identity as seen within their own culture with the perception of the mainstream one.

They delve into complex issues such as confronting stereotypes, fitting in with their culture of origin and learning to define themselves in terms of race and culture.