Tackling Anti-Blackness Through Art: Moving Past the abstract
Smith College Cromwell Day 2020
  • ARTIST STATEMENTS
  • ARTIST STATEMENTS
gray drawing of sunflowers alive and dead

Adrie Rose AC

“At the community garden, I talk to a friend about how our European ancestors gave up their lineage to become white.” I cut...

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10-08-2020 | Comments Off on Adrie Rose AC
detail of Oil Painting of a young Black person with a bird in a tree behind

Claudia Zimmerman ’91

“In painting allegory, I find the metaphor, and the act of simultaneously hiding and presenting narrative, very appealing.”

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10-07-2020 | Comments Off on Claudia Zimmerman ’91
A head with an Afro on a pillow

Gabriella G. ’16

“I wrote this poem on Sunday, August 30, 2020 after reading an article on the murder of Breonna Taylor that had come out that morning...

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10-06-2020 | Comments Off on Gabriella G. ’16
Crop of text: "ou wanna ... ve beyond ... abstract?"

Jessica (student)

“I made this piece because the call for art bothered me. I often feel that Smith's efforts at antiracism are surface-level, and don't...

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10-05-2020 | Comments Off on Jessica (student)
15 alphabet blocks with hand drawn images

Lauren Anderson (staff)

“This is a selection of the alphabet blocks my wife and I painted for our hoped-for future child. Representation matters and we hope...

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10-04-2020 | Comments Off on Lauren Anderson (staff)
double exposed feet over QR codes

Michelle Ma ’23

”Whether I was aware of it or not, my ideals of race and identity were shaped by and linked through social media contents.

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10-03-2020 | Comments Off on Michelle Ma ’23
Sculpture of a Black person in a skirt suit and Afro holding their fist in a Black power salute

Shastia Azulay ’23

“My sculpture was inspired by Marc Quinn’s statue of the Black Lives Matter protestor Jen Reid.

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10-02-2020 | Comments Off on Shastia Azulay ’23
Five Black women in a line, each embracing and leaning on the one in front. Each has different hair--blonde & straight, black Afro, black wavy

Tiffany Hugh ’22

“Moving towards Tackling Anti-Blackness is giving women of color, especially Black women, a space for healing.

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10-01-2020 | Comments Off on Tiffany Hugh ’22

Cromwell Day provides dedicated time and space for reflection and education about diversity, racism and inclusion. Through this work, we seek to take individual and community responsibility for our behavior with an awareness of how it furthers and disrupts patterns of structural oppression.

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