The next RAAC talk will feature Ken Grossinger, who has published Art Works: How Organizers and Artists are Creating a Better World Together. Some artists stand apart from hot-button issues of the day, but throughout history, others have deployed their creativity to push for reforms they support. Art can expose injustice, offer commentary or mobilize public awareness. Grossinger points to Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative, which brought together lawyers historians, artists and architects to construct a cluster of museums in Montgomery, Alabama, to delve into, and dramatize, the legacies of slavery and racism. In various cities, hundreds of murals mark the 2020 murder of George Floyd. In Art Works, Grossinger writes that “if it hadn’t been for music, the civll rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.”

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