PUBLIC BLACKNESS: Exhibition Presentation

PUBLIC BLACKNESS
THREE GALLERIES - ONE EXHIBITION - ONE RECEPTION - ONE CAUSE!
https://www.indstate.edu/cas/universityartgalleries
This event is free and open to the public.

Reception: Thursday, February 16, 4-8 p.m. (Three ISU Galleries: Yang Family University Art Gallery, Turman Gallery, Bare-Montgomery Gallery)

Presentation/Performance: Thursday, February 16, 5:30-7 p.m. (Margaret L. Boyce Recital Hall, Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts)

Panel Discussion: Friday, February 17, 3-4 p.m. (Turman Gallery (Fine Arts Building) 645 Chestnut Street, Terre Haute, IN 47809)

Exhibition Objective:
Public Blackness is an exhibition that spans all three of the Art Galleries at Indiana State University. The aim is to create greater awareness of the on-going and often unresolved local and national racial issues. The show is designed to provide a safe platform where ISU students and the broader community can learn, engage, and be inspired to take positive action to help heal and transform outdated and unconscious biases. 

Exhibition Statement:
Public Blackness demonstrates how the Black body in a racially divided society gradually disappears from our understanding of what it means to be a human. What transpires when the Black body is captured in our gaze—a gaze that has been trained to only view it as a problem everywhere it exists? What happens when the myths from our past—which were frequently used to justify its destruction—become ingrained in our imagination of its existence today?
One should leave the exhibition knowing a bit more about what makes the Black body vulnerable to the violence it still endures today.
- Dr. Adeyemi Doss

YANG FAMILY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY- Exhibition
Title: Public Blackness II
Duration: Jan. 30- Feb. 24, 2023
Location: Yang Family University Art Gallery (Landini Center for Fine and Performing Arts)
300 North 7th Street, Terre Haute, IN 47809
Artists: Abe Abraham (Abanar Productions LLC.), Courtland Blade, Idris Habib, Ayana Ross, Dread Scott
https://www.indstate.edu/cas/universityartgalleries/yang-gallery

TURMAN GALLERY- Exhibition
Title: Public Blackness I
Duration: Jan. 17- Mar. 17, 2023
Location: Turman Gallery (Fine Arts Building)
645 Chestnut Street, Terre Haute, IN 47809
Artists: Abe Abraham, (Abanar Productions LLC.), Dr. Adeyemi Doss, Scattered/Rada Studios LLC.
https://www.indstate.edu/cas/universityartgalleries/turman-gallery

BARE-MONTGOMERY GALLERY- Exhibition
Title: Public Blackness III
Duration: Feb. 2- 24, 2023
Location: Bare-Montgomery Gallery (Fairbanks Hall)
230 North 7th Street, Terre Haute, IN 47809
Artist: Tajiah Jones
https://www.indstate.edu/cas/universityartgalleries/bare-montgomery-gallery