These artists are creating powerful portraits of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor: 'Art is a tool for me to raise my voice'
Thank you Erin Donnelly!
The deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor have sparked worldwide protests and passionate demands for meaningful change. They’ve also driven artists around the globe — many of them people of color — to fuel their heartbreak, anger and pain into compelling works that honor and empower those black lives taken too soon. It’s a form of protest, a sign of respect and a powerful counterpoint to the graphic footage that, in the case of Floyd and Arbery, have shown them terrorized, not treasured.
As these works spread far and wide across social media, help amplify calls for justice and equality and usher in a wave of new followers seeking to support artists of color, three people behind some of the movement’s most recognizable images speak out about their creative contributions.
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