Gallery Post - Donovan Arroyo

The BURN Project is an interdisciplinary craftsmanship and scholarly undertaking. Burn is used as an allegory to assist with reexamining the numerous ways black women have been scorched across the world. Examples include unemployment, gentrification and physical and sexual abuse just to name a few. 

The first piece that stood out to me was “Cloudy Night”. The picture is blurry and it is a dark and gray afternoon. There’s no cars or people on the streets. I feel that it shows the oppression that black women faced and gives a visual representation of what their headspace was like during those times. Black women assumed a functioning part in the battle for all universal suffrage. They took part in political gatherings and coordinated political social orders. They went to political shows at their nearby churches where they arranged procedures to acquire the option to vote. In the later part of the 1800s, more Black women worked in churches, schools, and universities, which gave them a bigger stage to advance their thoughts. After the Nineteenth Amendment was approved in 1920, Black women were approved to vote and held political workplaces. Numerous states passed regulations that victimized African Americans and restricted their opportunities. They kept on battling for their freedoms.

The next piece I decided to talk about was “Three Dancers”. This painting shows three black women dancing with a distorted blue and white background. Dance can imply bliss, celebration, and the expression of an idea or emotion. This painting shows us all the problems African Americans had to face and them celebrating how they fought the system. In the twentieth century U.S., African American nationalists women who upheld for freedom, monetary independence, racial pride, solidarity, and political self-assurance arose as key political pioneers on the nearby, public, and, surprisingly, global levels. At the point when most black women in the U.S. didn't have the right to vote, these ladies intensely defied the false reverence of white America, regularly drawing upon their insight into history. Also they did as such out in the open spaces-in mass local gatherings, at nearby stores, and on the streets. These ladies saddled the force of their voices, energy, and the crude validity of their political message to mobilize black women around the world.