Sentences with phrase «volatile racial mix»

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Co-curated by Teresa A. Carbone, the museum's curator of American art and Kellie Jones, associate professor of art history at Columbia University, «Witness» assembles a refreshing mix of African American artists (Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Barkley Hendricks, Jae Jarrell, Jacob Lawrence, John T. Riddle Jr., Charles White, William T. Williams) and artists of other racial and ethnic backgrounds, including several prominent white artists (Phillip Guston, Robert Indiana, Norman Rockwell, Ed Ruscha) inspired by the volatile climate of the era that would come to define a great part of America's character.