put your money where your mouth is : Exploring emerging artists
It’s the final blog already?? Tune into this week’s blog to see how we’ve commemorated our discussions over the past few weeks. In deciding to base our series in cultural preservation, we felt it was only right to become part of the effort. We chose two artists that we feel represent the culture and whose works we love. Read more to hear about Amari Arrindell and Jetta Strayhorn.
Making Murals the New Monument
What words do you usually associate with street art? Vandalization? Crime? Murals and street art hold a stigma of devaluing its community, but in reality, they have the potential to be representative of communities and their values. Read this week’s blog to hear about the strong intersection of art and advocacy and how murals can ignite conversations surrounding social justice.
Supporting black artists in the Twenty-first century
With an increase of Black artists in the past two years and an extremely low percentage of Black artists being represented in museums, it is time to evaluate our methods of supporting artists in the twenty-first century. Especially after understanding how African art has been appropriated in the present, we must protect Black twenty-first century artists from experiencing the same misrepresentation. In this week of The Cultural Canvas, we discuss how impactful your support towards Black artists can be.
Shifting the Culture: The Cultural Canvas
Only 1.2% of Black artists are accounted for in museums.
Curators and mathematicians at Williams College studying 18 major museums in the United States discovered this statistic after finding interest in museum representation. Naturally, after coming across this alarming percentage, choosing to root The Cultural Canvas in re-imagining cultural preservation became a clear first step towards advocating for the promotion of Black artists and their work.