BLM Honest Arts Virtual Exhibition

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Briana Gervat Photography 8x10 A Field of Cotton: In late November, the cotton grows high in rural Georgia, no longer being picked by those enslaved in the South. Briana Gervat is a ďŹ ne art photographer who focuses on the American landscape in order to better understand the sociopolitical aspects of our lives.


Briana Gervat Photography 8x10 Birmingham: In 1963, a member of the Ku Klux Klan detonated a bomb in the basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four litter girls, all under the age of 14.


Briana Gervat Photography 8x10 Letter From Birmingham Jail: This photograph is a replication of the jail cell from which Martin Luther King, Jr. penned his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail.


Briana Gervat Photography 8x10 The Driveway of Medgar Evers: On the night of June 12, 1963, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was gunned down in his driveway as his wife and children slept inside.


Briana Gervat Photography 10x8 Fourteen: A train passes through the town of Money, Mississippi, the place where fourteen year-old Emmett Till was brutally beaten and murdered, his body thrown in the Tallahatchie River weighed down by a cotton fan.


Margo Berch Singer Digital Photography 8x10 Albany City Hall: This image shows the support for BLM from the City of Albany, and the decision to remove the statute of Phillip Schuyler. Margo Singer is a local photographer from Castleton NY. While she enjoys best photographing her travels, during this time of COVID her photography brings her closer to home. She is currently working on recycling her older images into photo collages on three dimensional items.


Margo Berch Singer Digital Photography 8x10 BLM, Troy NY: This mage documenting the support from local artists for BLM in the wake of the shooting of George Floyd.


Margo Berch Singer Digital Photography 8x10 NYC Women’s March, 2017: Visual expression of the intersectionality and support for the BLM at the first Women’s March held in NYC in 2017.


Warren E. Hamilton Digital Image DC War Memorial BLM with Lincoln: Are you serious, celebrating a confederacy that drew arms against our country. The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated to the United States, and the president who took a bullet to his cranium from a White Nationalist. Warren is a MP and board member. He has been shooting pictures for over 45 years.


Warren E. Hamilton Digital Image "Don't shoot my dad": Every year, “Law Enforcement” commits homicide against 1,000 unarmed people, and approximately 1/3 of these are Black people - this is 3 times our percentage of the population. End Qualified Immunity.


Warren E. Hamilton Digital Image If you don't see color 4 BLM 2020: I often hear White people exclaim, I am not racist, and I do not see color. Well, if you don’t “see” color, then you don’t see, or respect my humanity as a Negroid.


Warren E. Hamilton Digital Image Rest in Peace Martin 3: After the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot in the head by a hunting rie at close range by a deranged White Nationalist, he was buried on the grounds of his institute in Atlanta.


Warren E. Hamilton Digital Image Thanks to White America: A sincere thanks to those White people who prefer civil rights, human rights, constitutional rights, the rule of law, and equal protection under the law.


Theresa M Terry Pencil, Ink, and Watercolor 10x12 I Am Beautiful: No matter the age, a black or brown face is beautiful!


Robert Francis Whelan Oil on Belgian Linen 50’’x39’’ Equality Dream Since moving to the Capital region from Long Island in 1975, he has been decorating fire trucks in gold leaf designs (most of the trucks in central upstate, NY). Painting formal portraiture since 1995, winning many awards including a 1st prize nationally.


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