Gallery FAB: Saturday, 18 October 2014
Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Artists Respond"
A Visual Art Exhibition Presented by the Alliance of Black Art Galleries
Gallery FAB presents a series of photographs as part of a region wide coordinated mixed media visual art program collectively addressing the tragic shooting death of Michael Brown, Jr. The exhibition features paintings, drawings, collage, photography, sculpture, and new media films and digital experiments by artists from St. Louis and Kansas City areas. Participating artists includes artists from Illinois, Iowa, California, Texas, Maryland, New York, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and New Mexico.
The installation at Gallery FAB will feature photography by artists Briana Collier, Jared Gastreich, Erica Jones, Tianxin Wang, and Lance Omar Thurman. The exhibition opens to the public on October 17. There is a reception for the artists on Saturday October 18 from 1PM to 3PM. This event is free and open to the public.
Ms. Freida L. Wheaton, curator of the exhibition writes "Protest Art" has historically been a means of documenting social and political movements, and we are calling upon all artists to bring their voices - visual art - to the Movement. We are recording what future generations will view as "Ferguson:" not the St. Louis County municipality, but a 21st Century Movement for law and justice." The overriding issues the exhibition addresses goes beyond the tragic death of Michael Brown, Jr. to larger social and political issues of civil rights, voting, oppression, justice issues, prosecutorial conduct, free speech, racial disparities, police brutality, community empowerment, and the right to assemble.
A Visual Art Exhibition Presented by the Alliance of Black Art Galleries
Gallery FAB presents a series of photographs as part of a region wide coordinated mixed media visual art program collectively addressing the tragic shooting death of Michael Brown, Jr. The exhibition features paintings, drawings, collage, photography, sculpture, and new media films and digital experiments by artists from St. Louis and Kansas City areas. Participating artists includes artists from Illinois, Iowa, California, Texas, Maryland, New York, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and New Mexico.
The installation at Gallery FAB will feature photography by artists Briana Collier, Jared Gastreich, Erica Jones, Tianxin Wang, and Lance Omar Thurman. The exhibition opens to the public on October 17. There is a reception for the artists on Saturday October 18 from 1PM to 3PM. This event is free and open to the public.
Ms. Freida L. Wheaton, curator of the exhibition writes "Protest Art" has historically been a means of documenting social and political movements, and we are calling upon all artists to bring their voices - visual art - to the Movement. We are recording what future generations will view as "Ferguson:" not the St. Louis County municipality, but a 21st Century Movement for law and justice." The overriding issues the exhibition addresses goes beyond the tragic death of Michael Brown, Jr. to larger social and political issues of civil rights, voting, oppression, justice issues, prosecutorial conduct, free speech, racial disparities, police brutality, community empowerment, and the right to assemble.
Gallery FAB
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Fine Arts Building
Rosehill Road
Normandy, MO.
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