BA, Art (Studio Arts – Creative Technologies)

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Artist Statement

She is Black

The premise of She is Black is to transpose modern day civil rights onto traditional art history. This funerary body of work seeks to reimagine traditional religious iconography that was taught to me while in college and traditional religious taught to me by my family through the lenses of modern-day black culture and civil activism via formats of film, music and print. I take a radical approach to the traditional images of who the black community in Milwaukee sees as not only “Christ” but “God” itself via various art-i-facts of these pieces of modified art history.

The reinterpreted altarpiece is configured in a way that allows viewers to walk around the entire piece to interactively engage with the smaller pieces by taking communion, listening to a choir, and watching a sermon. Parts of the work also have QR codes for viewers to engage with the content later from the comfort of their own phones.