This Thursday, December 3rd, a reception at Krannert Art Museum will begin at 5pm to introduce a new exhibition: Documenting Inequality, in the Link Gallery.
The show’s title comes from the name of a course that is part of the University of Illinois Campus Conversation on Undergraduate Education initiative, and will present the final projects of the students taking it.
Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Art + Design Terri Weissman taught the class to focus on the ways art, beyond journalistic or scholarly accounts, can bolster understanding of experiences of inequality. They examined how documentary and community-based art can draw attention to and help address these issues among children and young people.
The result is over a dozen short films about every type of inequality imaginable: personal, historical, racial, economic, gender, and even the devisiveness that happens within groups that are discriminated against. These films will be playing on the lower level in Classroom Studio B until 9pm.
Also in the former CRL gallery will be a series of audio interviews from another part of the Grand Challenge Learning Course Culture of Debt, that explore financial and economic issues, personal and global, from many different countries and cultures all around the world.
So stop by the KAM, and catch a short glimpse (most films are under 20 minutes) or plan your evening and stay for the entire program. Regardless, the results should be illuminating for all attendees. If you miss the reception, however, don’t worry — the exhibition will be on display through Dec. 12th.
