Exhibition at Tang showcases symbols of activism
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Hand of Power Heart of Love banner, 2020, applique on fabricThe Free RadicalsShow MoreShow Less
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Eight-Color Commemorative Flag, designed 1978 by Gilbert Baker, made 2003, fabric, 33 x 74 inchesTang Teaching MuseumShow MoreShow Less
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Untitled (Eye with Rainbow and Fists), 2020, digital print on paper, 36 x 24 inchesWide Awakes (Otherward)Show MoreShow Less
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Last summer, as Jane Cole sat in protest, against the murder of George Floyd, she noticed something. The protest she was attending in Saratoga Springs where she lived had a number of powerful visual elements. Symbols painted on signboards that asserted identity, pride, power and demanded justice. It sparked a need to find out more within her and expressing herself in the way she knew best, Cole, an art history major at Skidmore College and the Carol Marschand endowment intern at the Tang Teaching Museum organized and curated