What Makes Blackness Visible…is it our revolutions?

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Original Title: What Makes Blackness Visible…is it our revolutions?
Date: 2024
Creator: Jewell Boyd See all items with this value
Description: Boyd's painting is inspired by philosopher Charles W. Mills's book, "Blackness Visible." Boyd's painting responds to the question of "what makes Blackness visible?" with, in her words, "three possible answers to this: our culture, our revolutions, and/or our d/Death. Is it our culture? Our revolution? Our d/Death? Or is it an amalgamation of all three?" The artist is a graduate of Texas Southern University and cites her parents, who always encouraged her to write and draw, as creative inspirations.
Primary Subject: 2000- See all items with this value; Art See all items with this value; HBCU student work See all items with this value; Racism See all items with this value
Additional Subject: African diaspora; Black art; Death; Literature; Meditations; Violence
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on canvas
Measurements: 35 1/2 in x 22 1/2 in
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: pc266
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.TSU.0317
Rights: All rights held by the University Museum at Texas Southern. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact University Museum, Texas Southern University umuseum@gmail.com Attn: Museum Director. Materials not created by Texas Southern University may still be under copyright. Additional materials may be presented for educational and research purposes in accordance with fair use under United States copyright law.
Contributing Institution: Texas Southern University
Collection: Permanent Collection See all items with this value

Item sets: Art; Texas Southern University Collections