American culture is in crisis.
As escalating incidents of racialized violence continue to occur across the USA – including the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, and Tamir Rice – we devised Art, Legacy & Community as a forum where artists use creative expression to document, intervene, organize and agitate for social justice.
We interrogate the relationship between art and activism with the specific goal of transforming our society into one that truly reflects the diversity of the world and that values justice in all its forms.
Art, Legacy & Community is a two-year intervention to use artistic process and production as a forum for our students to examine race, racial representation, and racial justice on our campus, in our region, and across our nation.
This website serves as a repository of our activities and an archive of our engagements from 2014 to 2016.
Art, Legacy & Community is supported by the UMass Department of Theater, the WEB DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies, the Commonwealth Honors College, the President’s Creative Economy Fund, a Public Service Endowment Grant, Arts at Amherst and MOSAIC (Five College Multicultural Theater Committee).
We interrogate the relationship between art and activism with the specific goal of transforming our society into one that truly reflects the diversity of the world and that values justice in all its forms.
Art, Legacy & Community is a two-year intervention to use artistic process and production as a forum for our students to examine race, racial representation, and racial justice on our campus, in our region, and across our nation.
This website serves as a repository of our activities and an archive of our engagements from 2014 to 2016.
Art, Legacy & Community is supported by the UMass Department of Theater, the WEB DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies, the Commonwealth Honors College, the President’s Creative Economy Fund, a Public Service Endowment Grant, Arts at Amherst and MOSAIC (Five College Multicultural Theater Committee).