paint Archives - The Race Card Project

Good paintings need all ethnic colors.

September 9, 2024 Alameen Albadra, colors, ethnic, Jordan, paint, painting

Alameen Albadra,
Jordan

Human diversity forms a beautiful picture that helps us understand differences and accept others. We need differences to form human societies.

God painted the world in color

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 Buddha, Cassidy Capoferri, Catholic, church, Color, faith, God, Macomb, MI, paint, religion, Wayne State, world

Cassidy Capoferri,
Wayne State,
Macomb, MI

Growing up Catholic and in Catholic schools, we were always taught that God loves everyone, no matter what. He created all people equally. It was so simple when I was younger, but the older I get, the more I see people ignoring this. It doesn’t matter what religion you’re part of, if you put your faith in God or Buddha, or if you believe in anything at all. What people should agree on is the fact that the world looks a whole lot better in color.

God painted me. He painted you.

July 11, 2018 Ashland, God, Neal Seay, paint, skin color, VA

Neal Seay,
Ashland, VA.

Acceptance – that’s what it’s all about.

July 9, 2018 1960, Acceptance, art, artist, Beatrice Goodman, Becket, David Burliuk, Godfather, immigrant, MA, paint, Russian, 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 – a good thing”. He was a Russian immigrant who painted (and saw) people differently.

I am Native, I am American.

July 5, 2016July 5, 2016 American, Ancestors, Canadian, Color, full color, humanity, mother earth, Native, OK, Oklahoma, paint, purity, Tammy Trouche', USA

Tammy Trouche’,
Canadian, OK.

I may appear to be white, but I am as colorful as my ancestors. I can’t imagine a world without color. Mother Earth would be dull and lifeless without the purity of the colors. That is true of ALL people. We are full of color, paint humanity in FULL COLOR.

Don’t paint blue eyes. It hurts.

May 28, 2015 1980's, blue eyes, caucasian, church, Cincinnati, hurt, illustrator, intergrated, Marcia Hartsock, mural, OH, paint, painting

Marcia Hartsock,
Cincinnati, OH.

I’m an illustrator, and Caucasian. In the 1980s, I was painting a wall mural in my integrated church that included a large eye that I had painted blue. A group of African American women friends from the church approached me and shared their thoughts and feelings about blue eyes. I have never forgotten that, and it changed the way I approached my own illustrations from then on. I owe them a great deal of thanks for being so honest with me.