Exhibits & Events

Ethnicity Through the Eyes of the Artist challenged our artists to explore and contemplate the meaning of ethnicity, and the ideas, associations, and questions that surround this concept.

Ethnicity can express a shared culture such as language, worldview, and value systems of a particular social group. A person’s identity and personal enculturation/acculturation experience often shape their orientation to the world and how it is seen from their eyes. Artists have an uncanny ability to bring to life a perspective that can frame or deconstruct these arrangements in a visual way. This challenges the viewer to reflect on, and see beyond attitudes and boundaries that have been formed previously within the greater culture. Artists have the ability to creatively illustrate how ethnicity, just as language, is an evolution that is constantly shifting.

Jurors: Nina Guzmán, Cheryl Harper, Erika Land,

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Featuring artists:
Z Kaplan,Dawn Merritt, Birgit Raders-Eichinger, Sarah Watkins-Nathan, Frank Burd, Marissa Georgiou, Kim Robbins, Lauren Silver, Lauren Vargas, Lisa Smith, Janell Sampson, Oxana Kovalchuk, Gary Grissom, Maremi Andreozzi, Kirsten Cunningham, David Levy, Oscar Vance, Kimberly Stemler, Violet Alexandre, Erika Matyok, David Fuentes, Marlene Adler, Jacqueline Valenzuela, Thomas Murray, Jeremy Sims, Giulia Giordano, Debra Powell-Wright, Robin Brownfield, Jerod Mason, Henry Morales, DeJeonge Reese, Ronald Washington, Mindy Flexer, Laura Madeleine, Robert Reinhardt, Martha Knox, Brenda Rydstrom, Rickie Sanders, Ted Lutkus, Gail Morrison-Hall, Maxine Schwartz, Laila Wah, L. A. Feldstein, and Alana Walters

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Above Image: Mindy Flexer "Where I Come From"