Go Local: Race Matters In Providence, RI
11 Apr
I was supposed to go to this event tonight: Community Discussion About Race, Racism and Privilege, but I couldn’t get a sitter.
The event was organized by a local artist, and I’m not sure who else, and is being held at AS220, an amazing non-profit art organization, and a hub of the local arts community here in Providence, Rhode Island.
The event was described as this:
if you’d like to meet up with other folks in our broader community and talk about issues of race, racism, and privilege, and how that stuff gets manifested in the arts community & in artistic practice….. and problems with the ways that happens, that affect our community and our friends…. and thinking about constructive solutions (both individual-level & larger-scale) to those problems… let’s talk about it.
The idea for the talk, stemmed from this video, made by a local, white, female artist, who covered herself with brown paint, and well, you just have to watch for yourself… […]
