ART FOR THE PEOPLE.
A project of Beacon Hill Black Alliance for Human Rights in partnership with Decatur Arts Alliance & Decatur Makers.
Art for the People challenges the narrative of agents of oppression and genocide, who enshrined their culture in monuments of stone, honoring militarism and conquest, calling them “art.”
Art for the People changes the narrative, lifting up the artistic expression of the Black and Indigenous community and reflecting voices of people of color who have for too long been ignored or silenced.
Art for the People centers the work of Black and Indigenous artists:
- to educate and advocate for social justice and equity
- to critique structural racism on every level: institutional, cultural, individual
- to bring to the fore themes of racial reckoning, resistance, survival, healing, affirmation, and radical imagination
- to explore the historical importance of these themes and to grapple with their continued relevance to contemporary Black cultural expression and production
- to agitate and deepen discourse and community engagement
- to advance radical imagining, communal memory work, community-based storytelling in all modes of art and creative expression
Art for the People convenes all those in the community who are compelled to reimagine and create a world that is a reflection of the liberation which the art portrays.
More details about Art for the People: This Land Tells a Story are coming soon.
Learn all about the first-ever Art for the People artist, Ellex Swavoni, and her larger-than-life sculpture entitled “What Sonia Said”.
Check here for media coverage about Art for the People, as well as links to related external content.