Florida artist John Sims demands change through art, writing
MAGGIE DUFFY, Tampa Bay Times
Feb. 28, 2021
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SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) John Sims creates provocative multimedia and performance works that confront “Confederate iconography as symbols of visual terrorism and white supremacy in the context of African American culture.”
That project, called Recoloration Proclamation, has been the Sarasota-based artist, writer and activist’s primary mission for 20 years.
It began when the Detroit native moved to Sarasota to teach visual mathematics at the Ringling College of Art and Design. He was stunned by the Confederate flags and memorials he saw in town. Sims inspired a national pushback on Confederate symbols.
Florida artist John Sims demands change through art, writing
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Sarasota artist John Sims demands change through art, writing
He takes aim at Confederate iconography, including a local plantation.
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Published Feb. 24
John Sims creates provocative multimedia and performance works that confront âConfederate iconography as symbols of visual terrorism and white supremacy in the context of African American culture.â
That project, called Recoloration Proclamation, has been the Sarasota-based artist, writer and activistâs primary mission for 20 years.
It began when the Detroit native moved to Sarasota to teach visual mathematics at the Ringling College of Art and Design. He was stunned by the Confederate flags and memorials he saw in town. Sims inspired a national pushback on Confederate symbols.
UpdatedMon, Jan 11, 2021 at 5:37 pm ET
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From Karyn Olivier, The Battle is Joined, 2017. Vernon Park, Philadelphia PA. Commissioned by Monument Lab and Mural Arts. Video documentation with audio recording of Trapeta B. Mayson’s poem Monuments to Brown Boys commissioned for public art instal (USF Contemporary Art Museum)
John Sims, Freedom Memorial at Gamble Plantation, 2020. Video animation with sound, 12 foot Afro Confederate flag, marker. (USF Contemporary Art Museum)
TAMPA, FL On Jan. 22, the USF Contemporary Art Museum, part of the Institute for Research in Art in the College of The Arts, is launching the hybrid exhibition titled Marking Monuments in both online and physical spaces.