Sentences with phrase «confront issues of racism»

How can we extend Basquiat's groundbreaking artistic approach to confront issues of racism, class struggle, social hypocrisy, while challenging perceptions and opening up new dialogues?

She first became known through her adaptation of the 18th - 19th Century art of silhouetting, which she uses to make stylised images which confront issues of racism, slavery, lust and domination.

For starters, a Center for American Progress study titled America's Leaky Pipeline for Teachers of Color reports that minority teachers have higher expectations of minority students, provide culturally relevant teaching, develop trusting relationships with students, confront issues of racism through teaching, and become advocates and cultural brokers.

His drawings are detailed accounts of the traditions and rituals associated with the Frenglish leaders and culture, confronting issues of racism, power, greed, and ideological opposition within an invented period during the eighteenth century.

Jean - Michel Basquiat took the New York City art world by storm in the early 1980s and gained international recognition by creating powerful and expressive works that confronted issues of racism, identity and social tension.

Jean - Michel Basquiat took the New York City art world by storm in the early 1980s and gained international recognition for his powerful and expressive works that confronted issues of racism, identity and social tension.

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Columbus, Ohio (June 2015)-- Us Is Them (September 18, 2015 — April 2, 2016), is a powerful exhibition of over 60 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and video by a group of 36 international artists whose work confronts issues of politics, religion, and racism.

With it, Bradford presents a work that not only explores the vital tension between abstraction and representation in contemporary art, but crucially invites us to confront some of the most pressing issues that we must continue to reckon with in today's socio - political landscape characterised by flares of racism, sexism and global economic suffering of the disenfranchised.