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Art, Activism and Identity

-- Do people of color have a responsibility to create political art centered around their identity?

-- What tensions do we face in being political and part of the diaspora? Do we experience family pressure to be (a)political?

-- What does it mean to make work about your culture?

-- What "sells"? When does making art about your culture become “appropriative”?

-- What is authenticity in political/ identity-based art? Is it an exploration of one’s personal relationship to the culture, or is it performative?

Photo: Good Girls Marry Doctors edited by Piyali Bhattacharya used a reference. 

Earlier Event: November 6
Home and the World
Later Event: January 15
Privilege and Opportunity