Four Powerful Artworks Across Indianapolis Share American Experience, Black Experience In America, With Newfields Continuing To Center White Audiences
Joshua Bleecker, 'Elijah McClain,' (2020). Mitchell’s For Freedom (2020)Cave’s Soundsuit (2018)Bleecker’s Elijah McClain (2020)Four Indianapolis arts institutions. Artworks Across Indianapolis Reveal the American Experience, the Black Experience in AmericaJoshua Bleecker, 'Elijah McClain,' (2020), detail. Chadd ScottJoshua Bleecker Elijah McClain (2020)In August of 2019, 23-year-old Elijah McClain was walking home from a convenience store when three Aurora, Colorado police officers mobbed him after receiving a 9-1-1 call of a suspicious person in the area. Chadd ScottNick Cave Soundsuit (2018)Like Bleecker’s Elijah McClain, Cave’s Soundsuits were inspired by a vicious police attack on a Black man.
Source: Forbes February 15, 2021 17:48 UTC
