VOA – CONNECT
EPISODE # 213
AIR DATE: 02 11 2022
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The Wealth Gap
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((Andre Perry
Scholar/Author, The Brookings Institution))
People see twice as much crime than there actually is in Black communities. They see worse education.
Distance Learning
Plenty of artists have used pain as inspiration for their work think
Pablo Picasso‘s Blue Period, for example. And 2020 provided plenty of fodder for pain-based work. But a new show fuses pain with joy by letting teachers reflect on the hardships of the last year
and how they stayed connected with the communities and children that they serve. Made possible by a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities grant, the DC Teacher Art Show
Distance Learning seeks to share some of their works. Curator
Zsudayka Nzinga Terrell gathered pieces from 21 art teachers in the D.C. area that explore isolation and mental health during the pandemic and social unrest of the past year. The online gallery includes portraiture, sculpture, print, digital and abstract art, and spoken word pieces. Some of the artists featured have an established presence, like