“Rachel Thomas’s University of Alabama (1965) and University of Louisville (1950s) highlights the very first black students to attend University (a predominantly white setting at the time), linking her own experiences in Higher Education to that of previous generations. Doctoring the vintage photos so that the black students are front and center, she highlights a moment in the not-so-distant past when black students were hardly present in these spaces, especially in the South.”
Wall 3: Feminist Commentary
Collage/Assemblage (Juried by Regine Basha)
Site: Brooklyn Gallery
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