Hey, you’re good at math, right?
Quoc Du, Houston, TX Being Asian American, there are certain expectations placed upon me. I’m expected to be smart, I’m expected to have good grades...
Make art to inform us all.
Clare Hilger As an artist and art teacher I believe art can make us consider important issues in our world though visual means impacting us...
“So, what are you?” they ask.
Karen Gephart Altschul, Vernon Hills, IL. I was five, the first time I can remember somebody asking me that question. “What are you? Chinese or...
I’m a Bohemian refugee from Negroland.
Opeyemi Parham, Dummerston, VT. Both my Middle Class, African slave descent parents were artists. So my life had shadows from Margot Jefferson’s Negroland, but great...
No Color Leaves The World Plain.
LesleyAnn Moore, Boston, MA. Race is beautiful. Diversity fills the globe and allows freedom of expression through its inhabitants. We are born already filled with...
Acceptance – that’s what it’s all about.
Beatrice Goodman, Becket, MA. !n 1960 my Godfather, the artist David Burliuk once told me that ” soon everybody will be shades of tan –...
I am grace, power and inextinguishable
Ryan Brooke Taylor, New York City, NY. Collected from: WITNESS: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties at The Brooklyn Museum My experience as a...
I am not just a Mexican
USA. I am an artist I am a reader I am a writer I am a friend I am a sister I am a daughter...
Growning up as a hispanic in a white community
James Meyer Salisbury, CT I was adopted and became an artist, all of my paintings portray white children when my wife asked me why, I...
