Sentences with phrase «cultural identity through»

Families might also be concerned about children losing their cultural identity through contact with children with different cultural backgrounds, for instance through the influences promoted in the media, at school, or through contact with children from different backgrounds.

Shonibare, a self - described post-colonial hybrid, explores ideas of race, class, and the construction of cultural identity through his work.

Inspired by a diverse array of visual artists, actors, musicians, writers, activists, and philosophers, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Joseph Beuys, Joseph Cornell, Parliament Funkadelic and Sun Ra, Johnson engages with questions of personal, racial, and cultural identity through his work, producing an amalgamation of historical and material references grounded in art and African - American history.

His work engages issues of cultural identity through representation of and as the «other» through a variety of narrative formats.

Exploring the cultural tensions between native Tehranis and the 700,000 or so diasporic Iranians, or Tehrangeles, displaced to LA following the 1979 Revolution, Moghadam's Maxx takes a look at the notion of cultural identity through the cross-cultural philosophies of former president Khatami.

Working in painting, sculpture, photography, film and installation, Shonibare's work examines race, class and the construction of cultural identity through a sharp political commentary of the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their respective economic and political histories.

He continues to explore this duality of personal and cultural identity through the medium of photography.

As a black man born in Manchester and now living in Trinidad, half a world away from the endless machinations of the London art world and London's art dealers, how has Ofili defined his own experience of being alive, and succeeded in establishing his own black cultural identity through his art?

Students consider personal, collective, and cultural identity through an examination of paintings, sculptures, or photographs.

A pioneer in color photography, Sternfeld's thirteen bodies of work, all of which were also published as books, have explored cultural identity through ordinary people and places, with topics ranging from experimental communities to the effect of human intervention on the natural landscape.

This is the first work in a second generation of his celebrated Wind Sculpture series and continues Shonibare's ongoing examination of the construction of cultural identity through the lens of colonialism.

Audrey Chan (b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles - based artist, writer, and educator whose research - based projects articulate political and cultural identities through allegorical narrative and the feminist construct of «the personal is political.»

(b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles - based artist, writer, and educator whose research - based projects articulate political and cultural identities through allegorical narrative and the feminist construct of «the personal is political.»

Based in Paris, Esther Shalev - Gerz is internationally recognised for her artistic practice that investigates the construction of knowledge, histories, and cultural identities through the potentialities of unexpurgated expression.

Audrey Chan is a Los Angeles - based artist, writer, and educator whose research - based projects articulate political and cultural identities through allegorical narrative and the feminist construct of «the personal is political.»

Not exact matches

To the contrary, the proposal urges that the best way to affirm any school's theological identity is through study focused on as a wide theological and social - cultural diversity of Christian congregations as possible.

Through the ages, the Church hasn't been shy about praising the deeply human necessity of cultural identity, but she has also consistently expressed a solicitude for migrants and refugees that springs not just from natural law but from the universal scope of her concern.

But we have not always recognized that such development must be based on a strong cultural identity and autonomy through which peoples define themselves, their situations and their needs.

[11] The inescapable reality that new patterns of social, economic, political, religious and cultural inter-relationships and identities emerged through the colonial encounter can not be simply brushed aside or dismissed with the comment that this was a terrible time and that it is good that things are different now.

She deftly explained how art has identified people and groups and ways through which many artworks have given rise to intellectual, cultural and identity debates.

The poignancy and tension that run through artist Cannon's art speak to a larger discussion going on today as the United States grapples with thorny questions of ethnic identity, land rights, and cultural heritage.

Debuting in a time where discussion on race in American cinema is at an absolute fever pitch, Morris From America explores the idea of cultural and personal identity through the lens of a 13 - year old black aspiring free - styler living with his father (Craig Robinson) in the little white - washed German village of Heidelberg.

Students explore how people interact across cultural boundaries and the notion of citizenship, the contribution of diverse cultural influences through migration and media, and the critical role of shared beliefs and values in an evolving Australian identity.

Through readings, discussions, and reflection, participants in this module will further develop their own cultural and racial identities in order to better serve diverse students and their families.

As students learn to use technology tools to build representations of a social world's characteristics, they generate reflective critical thought through their analysis and critique of the identities, relationships, and values constructed by the cultural practices and discourses in that social world.

This might take place through anti - racist / anti-bias training, guided conversations where teachers explore their own cultural identity, study of the history of racial politics in their city or neighborhood, or critical investigation of textbooks and other standard class materials.

Through characters like Rosacoke Mustian, Wesley Beavers, Kate Vaiden and Blue Calhoun, Price introduced us to men and women — and critics praised Price for his deep understanding of women's nature — who, in some cases, were tentatively taking their first steps toward the secrets of adulthood, and in others were struggling to discover their freedom and identity in a world that would just as soon keep them imprisoned in narrow cultural stereotypes.

Jackson centers her tale around four women in the same family from four different generations and acutely sifts through the emotional landscapes of coming - of - age, claiming a cultural identity, grief and mental illness while including plenty of moments of brash humor and poetic insight.

Jackson centers her tale around four women in the same family, but from four different generations, and acutely sifts through the emotional landscapes of coming - of - age, claiming a cultural identity, grief and mental illness while including plenty of moments of brash humor and poetic insight.

Where the Batad Rice Terraces is not just another UNESCO World Heritage Site with its amphitheater like steps but as a very important part of the Ifugao cultural fabric and identity governed by the seasons and belief systems through rituals and gods / guardians like the bul - ol.

By the deliberate efforts of post-revolutionary governments the «Mestizo identity» was constructed as the base of the modern Mexican national identity, through a process of cultural synthesis referred to as mestizaje [mestiˈsahe].

This exhibition seeks to correlate directly with How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney's Latin America and Latin America's Disney at MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House and The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State L.A., through the idea of creating identity and using iconography as political and cultural tools to represent the experiences of the people who have most suffered from corporate imperialism.

Yinka Shonibare's work explores race, class, cultural identity, and colonialism, primarily through use of brightly colored «African» batik fabric.

At the Katzen Arts Center June 14 through August 17 is «Continental Drift (Being Here and Being There),» a solo show by Judy Byron examining cultural influences on her identity as an artist.

JTD: Your work engages with ideas of cultural history, individual identity, and the female persona through complex, multi-layered pieces, both visual and performative.

Downey traced his heritage through Europe and the Americas, following the intellectual threads that wove the tapestry of his cultural and intellectual identity.

Through its work, Iniva has continued to encourage the study and interrogation of cultural identity and difference, most recently in its 2011 exhibition Entanglement: the ambivalence of identity, but also previously in exhibitions such as Alien Nation (2007), which explored science - fiction, race and contemporary art and Veil (2003), which addressed the veneration and vilification of the veil in contemporary culture.

Zhang Huan's intrigue with cultural and personal identity continues through the trajectory of his work, as evident in the photographic series «Family Tree» (2000).

Akunyili Crosby's works are multilayered both in their materials (she uses paint, charcoal, pencils, fabric, paper transfers, and collage) and in their meaning — she explores questions of cultural identity, relationships, and geography through portraiture, interior space, and objects.

Through Mas Rudas, Buentello's work has evolved to explore socio - cultural examinations of Chican @ identity and cultural representations of gender.

The growing influence of Western art makes it hard to spot the nationality and cultural identities of the artists through their work.

-- Oscar Wilde BODY UTOPIA creates a visionary space that honors ideas and representations of the nonconforming body — a body that does not subscribe to cultural ideals, whether through size, age, disability, ethnicity, gender presentation, or «queer», self - chosen, outlier identity.

Explorations of the theme are not limited to one's home or family, but also include notions of cultural and social identity — which, through the exhibition's selection of international artists, present «home» as something endlessly varied and intriguing.

Regional artists manuel arturo abreu and Christopher Paul Jordan explore the abstracted visual and emotional cues that influence how a sense of «place» is communicated through signifiers of the cultural, economic, and racial influences within inherited identity.

By re-appropriating American culture through found objects, she questions social, political and cultural issues about sex, gender identity and marginalized groups.

There is an interest in defining a period of our collective history and cultural understanding through objects of symbolic meaning used for ritual and cultural identity.

Ligon's paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources — literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs — to reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society.

Through the use of high and low cultural iconography and art historical references I create a working space between both cultural identities in which samples could be -LSB-...]

Museum exhibitions that focus on cultural identity often represent a predefined paradigm, where in a created space, cultural characteristics are objectified through the artwork and artifacts displayed.

Through his alternative reality, Kaga explores personal and cultural identity, as well as complex social issues faced in daily life.