In art this week we are learning about the amazing Bisa Butler, an American artist from New Jersey.
She says ' In my work, I am telling the story— this African American side— of the American life. History is the story of men and women, but the narrative is controlled by those who hold the pen.
My community has been marginalized for hundreds of years. While we have been right beside our white counterparts experiencing and creating history, our contributions and perspectives have been ignored, unrecorded, and lost. It is only a few years ago that it was acknowledged that the White House was built by slaves. Right there in the seat of power of our country African Americans were creating and contributing while their names were lost to history.
My subjects are African Americans from ordinary walks of life who may have sat for a formal family portrait or may have been documented by a passing photographer. Like the builders of the White House, they have no names or captions to tell us who they were.'
How do these images make you feel?
What do they have in common?
How do you think they were created?
What do they represent?
1: These images make me feel upset because of what they mean.
ReplyDelete2: It is common that there is someone who looks sad in every picture.
3: I think they are collaged.
4: What black people feel like when they are ignored.