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5 Museums Dedicated to People of Color

Museums and other cultural institutions have been required  to adapt to social-distancing COVID protocols in the last year. However, they still remain a very important place of learning, digitally or in person. In the wake of the ongoing #BlackLivesMatter and #StopAAPIHate movements of the last year, we want to highlight a few museums dedicated to […]Read Post ›

4 Organizations that Support Black Artists

Written by Kathryn Cooperman. Edited by Tiffany Chan and Katie Constantine. Cover image per USC News. In celebration of Black History Month, we would like to highlight four organizations that promote the work of Black artists. These groups are disrupting systemic racism in the art world and uplifting Black artists so that the arts can […]Read Post ›

4 Online Educators of Color You Should Know

We all have something to learn from these educators of color.

Kehinde Wiley’s Napoleon Portrait: A New Language of Representation

Written by Kathryn Cooperman. Edited by Tiffany Chan, Catherine Harlow, and Morgan Moore. Contemporary black artist Kehinde Wiley (1977-  ) is turning the European canon of art on its head. He creates works based on famous historical European paintings that feature black figures from the present day. The artist empowers his subjects by bestowing them […]Read Post ›

TFG is 5: Reflections on Racism & Art

When we first started writing, we did so with the mindset that we should use the skills we honed in our humanities classes in undergrad to help the world see why we love(d) the quirky academic topics that we do. For me at least, this is no longer the case.

5 Fantastic Movies by Black Filmmakers (That Aren’t “The Help”)

The Help was trending on Netflix this past week. Many believed this sudden rise in views was due to the recent protests and thus increase in communication about race. A number of people took issue with this being the movie of choice, saying it perpetuates the white savior trope, a storyline where a white character […]Read Post ›

Black Lives Matter: A TFG statement

Edited by Katie Constantine, Catherine Harlow, and Morgan Moore Cover image by Obi Onyeador Like many of you, I have been following the new cycle closely (almost compulsively) over the last week. First and foremost– I’d like to extend my condolences to the family of George Floyd and to the communities affected over the last […]Read Post ›

Black Panther: A Revolutionary Game-Changer

  One could very easily write a long research paper about Black Panther.  Much has already been said about the importance of its powerful and groundbreaking mainstream representation, from Time Magazine’s February 19 cover story by Jamil Smith, to the Twitter campaign #WhatBlackPantherMeanstoMe begun by Kayla Sutton of the website Black Girl Nerds, to a flood […]Read Post ›

Profiles in Art: Shantell Martin

Shantell Martin is a visual artist and YouTuber. She draws on anything and everything and is known predominantly for her black and white stream-of-consciousness drawings. She has traveled around the world and lived in the UK, Japan, and now runs her studio in New York. You can find more of her work in her portfolio […]Read Post ›

Profiles in Art: Zubeida Agha of the Guerrilla Girls

Zubeida Agha is a member of the Guerrilla Girls, a feminist arts collective based in New York City. And before you get confused about why we are interviewing a late Modernist painter from Pakistan-that isn’t her real name.  Founded in the late 1980’s, the Guerrilla Girls are a group of artist and art professionals from […]Read Post ›

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