lives matter - MiXX Projects + Atelier
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lives matter - MiXX Projects + Atelier
lives matter Dontre Hamilton || 31 || April 30, 2014 || Milwaukee officer not charged Eric Garner || 43 || July 17, 2014 New York officer not charged John Crawford II || 22 || August 5, 2014 || Dayton, Ohio officer not charged Michael Brown Jr. || 18 || August 9, 2014 || Ferguson, Missouri officer not charged Ezell Ford || 25 || August 11, 2014 || Florence, California investigation ongoing Dante Parker || 36 || August 12, 2014 || Victorville, California investigation ongoing Tanisha Anderson || 37 || November 13, 2014 || Cleveland, Ohio investigation on going Akai Gurley || 28 || November 20, 1014 || Brooklyn, New York officer charged: second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, and two counts of official misconduct Tamir Rice || 12 || November 22, 2014 || Cleveland, Ohio officers not charged Rumain Brisbon || 34 || December 2, 2014 || Phoenix, Arizona officer not charged Jerame Reid || 36 || December 30, 2014 || Bridgeton, New Jersey officer not charged Tony Robinson || 19 || March 6, 2015 || Madison, Wisconsin investigation ongoing Phillip White || 32 || March 31, 2015 || Vineland, New Jersey investigation ongoing Eric Harris || 44 || April 2, 2015 || Tulsa, Oklahoma officer charged with manslaughter Walter Scott || 50 || April 4, 2015 || North Charleston, South Carolina officer charged with murder after video footage release showed Walter running away and the officer firing his gun into Walter’s back Freddie Gray || 25 || April 19, 2015 || Baltimore, Maryland officers charged Sandra Bland || 28 || July 13, 2015 || Waller County, Texas death ruled a suicide Kindra Chapman || 18 || July 14, 2015 || Homewood, Alabama death ruled a suicide Samuel DuBose || 43 || July 19, 2015 || Cincinnati, Ohio officer charged with murder and voluntary manslaughter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtJgDYysES8 "Indeed, in America there is a strange and powerful belief that if you stab a black person ten times, the bleeding stops and the healing begins the moment the assailant drops the knife. We believe white dominance to be a fact of the inert past, a delinquent debt that can be made to disappear if only we don’t look.“ -Ta-Nehisi Coates’ excerpt from “The Case for Separations,” Image by Devin Allen, courtesy of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum Devin Allen. Baltimore, 2015 Sarah Green Illustration Mary Engelbrite Illustration ‘My Kind of People’ by Bayete Ross Smith Cameroonian artist Barthélémy Toguo’s “Urban Requiem” is about shared human experiences and perspectives. His wooden sculptures are emblazoned with words like “Hope,” “End Police Brutality,” and “Black Lives Matter.” Artist Jordan J. Weber reimagines a Ferguson, Mo., police car. in his piece called "American Dreamers, Phase 2." An artist’s rendition of Trayvon Martin is seen in the background under a halo. “I tell stories that speak to the human experience. The hands you see are images I have captured of people who have shaped and upheld this movement. The peoples movement. It is our right – to be seen, to be heard…to be validated. It is our collective responsibility. The ‘All Hands On Deck’ project is an ode to that diverse collective dedicated to protecting our human rights, no matter race, age or gender. 'All Hands On Deck’ is our charge - a call of action to stand with those who stand for us all.” –Damon Davis “The fencing is meant to “symbolize the barriers AfricanAmericans encounter in everyday life,” said Christopher Metzger, a Morgan State University professor who organized the piece. The theme of this public art is “Black Lives Matter,” and when his students chose it last spring, they had no idea just how relevant it would become. This piece is a part of the Inside Out project, a global initiative that allows people to share their portraits and make a statement for what they stand for. ” "It's haunting; it's shocking, It humanizes the situation in a very strange way.“ -Tyler Shields Hank Willis Thomas "It’s not an easy task. This is the thing. It’s not an easy thing to undo," Clark explained to Leila Ugincius of Virginia Commonwealth University "Thread by thread. It’s a little frustrating." Although this sentiment primarily points to the physical act of deconstructing the flag piece by piece, it also extends to the slow and toilsome task of dismantling the ideals of the Confederacy and the notion of racism in the United States.”Sonya Clark, ‘Unraveling and Unravelled’ “The large installation, ‘Storm in the Time of Shelter,’ dominates the Creative Alliance’s Main Gallery, where the floor is painted blood red. Mannequins wearing mostly red, white, and blue Klan robes, handmade by Rucker and his sister-inlaw, are arranged in a large circle. The hulking figures center around a large metal cross on the floor, with their blank faces covered by elaborate hoods. Most disturbing, at the foot of the cross, a circle of three children in full Klan regalia hold out their hands, as if playing Ring Around the Rosy.” Commentary on Paul Rucker’s ‘Rewind’ Exhbition "Growing up, in a mostly Caucasian area, I had not [realized] until I was much older that the image of a black boy or man is often one of anger or aggression." "The reasons for my rage and my anger should not be pushed aside and belittled simply because of the color of my skin." "My skin color and my race represent who I am and where I come from, but shouldn't dictate how people treat me." The ‘I’m Tired’ Project by Paula Akpan and Harriet Evans Kehinde Wiley Jaques Louis-David 1801 Kehinde Wiley 2005 Kehinde Wiley “Wiley investigates the perception of blackness and creates a contemporary hybrid Olympus in which tradition is invested with new street credibility.” Wiley describes his own work as “interrogating the notion of the master painter, at once critical and complicit.” His paintings quote historical sources and position young black men and women within that field of power; thus fusing history and style in a unique and contemporary manner. In 2011, Kaphar began searching for his father’s prison records. When he visited a website containing photographs of people who have recently been arrested, he found dozens of men who shared his father’s first name, Jerome, and last name. The artist was influenced by the writings of Michelle Alexander and William Julius Wilson on the prison-industrial complex and the use of policing and imprisonment by the US government as a means to address economic, social and political problems. The panels are based on police portraits of the men named Jerome that Kaphar found online, which represent only a portion of each man’s identity yet are preserved in the public record. Although each work depicts an individual, this series represents a community of people, particularly African American men, who are overrepresented in the prison population. After completing the portraits, Kaphar submerged a portion of each panel in tar; initially the tar-covered area corresponded to the percentage of his life that each subject had spent in prison. Kaphar abandoned the formula after considering the countless consequences of imprisonment for the men’s lives, even after their release. In his later panels, Kaphar began with his original equation and extended the tar at least up to the mouth, representing the silencing of the incarcerated men, who were stripped of many rights, including the right to vote and access to federally funded programs in many states. ‘Manifest Justice’ Project in L.A. Pinhole Photography by Incarcerated Girls at Remann Hall, Washington State Curated by Prison Photography editor Pete Brook, Prison Obscura explores an area of society that, in spite of its explosive growth, continues to exist in the shadows: the country’s prisons and jails. Presenting rarely seen vernacular, surveillance, evidentiary, and prisoner-made photographs, the exhibition sheds light on the prison industrial complex and those it confines. Richard Ross “The entire discussion of race in America centers around the protection of White feelings.” John Metta There’s a headline from The Independent that sums this up quite nicely: “Charleston shooting: Black and Muslim killers are ‘terrorists’ and ‘thugs’. Why are white shooters called ‘mentally ill’?” John Metta “Here’s what I want to say to you: Racism is so deeply embedded in this country not because of the racist rightwing radicals who practice it openly, it exists because of the silence and hurt feelings of liberal America.” John Metta “the average white household in America has 16 times the wealth of the average black household. No group in America suffers from our nation’s economic inequality more than black people. Further, closing the racial wealth gap is probably the single most effective thing that any politician could do to help advance the cause of ending structural racism in America.” Hamilton Nolan “there are close to 20 people of color in prison for every white person.” John Metta