Social Trap

Media: TexasSouthern/HCAC.TSU.0276.jpg

Original Title: Social Trap
Date: 2005-12-15
Creator: Elliott Turner II See all items with this value
Description: The mural centers an image of Mother Nature as a Black woman. In the foreground of the center panel, the artist stands in front of the towering female figure. On either side of Turner, men are weighed down by heavy irons. On the right, an embryo is gestating in a womb within a gear.
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; HBCU institutional history See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Architecture; Black art; Black Feminism; Industrial revolution; Nature; Plants
Current Location: 1st to 2nd Floor, North Stairwell, Hannah Hall, Texas Southern University
Location: Houston; Texas; United States
Type: Murals
Medium: acrylic
Additional Techniques: Mural painting
Measurements: 135 in x 24 in; 135 in x 85 in; 135 in x 24 in
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: 77
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.TSU.0276
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Contributing Institution: Texas Southern University
Collection: Hannah Hall Murals See all items with this value

Item sets: Art; Hannah Hall Murals Collection; Texas Southern University Collections