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Published/Posted By: The Providence American
Posted: July 22, 2018

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  • Art & Social Justice

    It’s a strange time in the American narrative.  Ongoing social wounds are being brought to
    light through social media and under current power and political realities,
    increasing in their absurdity.  Every day
    there is more news that protections of the earth and vulnerable people are
    being stripped by our national government. 
    It is a difficult time that is marked by distrust and anxiety and anger.  There are so many words, so many talking
    heads, so many retracted corners, so many secrets, and so many secrets being
    revealed.  It’s exhausting and
    painful. 



    Our American story is in the process of being rewritten to
    include every American’s experience.  The
    myths that have woven a convenient story for a few are being blown up, even as
    those that prefer the convenience are holding tight to the mythology.



    Culture is alive though, just as the earth.   Artists have always, (throughout time, across
    culture, everywhere on the planet) played the role of creating vision and
    challenging the voice of power.  Visual
    language gives us an opportunity to imagine a future and a present in a way forward
    more compelling than the trap of words.  With
    nuance and contradiction, bravery and tenderness, art calls on emotions impossible
    to speak.   



    Providence is a dynamic city filled with people
    whose legacies stretch to every corner of the earth.  As such, it is filled with profound artists
    who use their work to wrestle with their personal experience in our current
    reality.  We need to embrace them.  We need to experience their vision.   By
    doing so, our understanding of the possible will be grounded in a human story broader
    than the experience of a few. 

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