Brown vs. Board of Education Art Exhibit :: Art Museum Exhibit Race Segregation

One of Arts MessagesWhen I premier walked into the Krannert Art Museum, I had no idea where to begin seeing that this was my kickoff visit to the museum. So I asked a man who useed there to organise me in the general direction of the exhibit known as eight-spot Artists Address Brown v. Board of Education. The man gave me directions, and showed me into the section for the exhibit. I walked into deuce small rooms, which I thought was a micro small for the work of eight artists. Despite the size, I had no idea where to start. So I took a quick look around the exhibit, which was empty except for the certification guard who, upon my arrival, jumped up from his seat. Throughout my time at the museum, this guard was unendingly checking me, like a hawk waiting for its prey to make a move before coming in for the kill, as if I were breathing out to do anything other than look at the exhibits. His evil gaze was a little unnerving, however, I persisted in my work. In order to decide where to start, I spun around in a circle, coming to a stop at Pamel Vander Zwans and Carrie Mae Weems work on Plessy v. Ferguson. This was a series of five photographs in dimmed and white featuring Zwan and Weems, one black and the other white, fighting over a chair in the middle of a checkered black and white room. It did not matter which picture started the series, because the two on the ends were the said(prenominal) picture. If going in a linear order, depending on where you started, the second and quaternary pictures showed the two women struggling for the chair with the white women having the upper-hand, and the black women trying to earn the chair away. Which ever direction you took, the pictures always ended the same way, with to each one women back where they started. It was at this point that I found a little book that describes each exhibit, which helped me to understand the pictures. Not knowing the background behind Plessy v. Ferguson, the s truggle for the seat didnt make much sense. The history is indite saying that Homer Plessy was a black man who sat in the white man only car of a train, quite a rebellious feat for his time.