We would like to invite everyone to attend the showcase for the Art for Social Change Competition that is being held on Thursday, Feb. 17, at 4 p.m. in the foyer of WSU Fine Arts Center. This competition is co-sponsored by the WSU Martin Luther King Celebration committee, the WSU School of Languages, Cultures, and Race and the WSU Fine Arts Department, and it is part of the series of events centered around the annual MLK Celebration at Washington State University. It seeks to create space for and to recognize the role of art in advancing social justice, as a process and a goal. We solicit artistic submissions that provoke, challenge, and inspire.
The goal of this competition is to not only call attention to the importance of recognizing the vast inequalities that persists in the world today, but also to recognize the necessity to build a new world — to dream, to envision, to invent, to create — redefining how we live and interact with our surroundings. Visit the website at slcr.wsu.edu/art-for-social-change for more details.
This year, the competition is particularly relevant as we have all recently witnessed the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and resistance to critical race theory being taught in public schools.
The Kindergartners at Sunnyside Elementary School in Pullman have submitted artwork titled “Same and Different” to show how they are working for change in standing up against racism.
Hope to see you there!
