Student Art Project Tackles Racism

by Betsy Chapman

From today’s Winston-Salem Journal: Student Art Project Tackles Racism.

“Katie Wolf, a sophomore art student at Wake Forest University, bought four boxes of 64-count Crayola crayons so she would have enough flesh-colored ones to create Ley de Vivenda Equitativa/Fair Housing Act.

The collage, inspired by conversations between Wolf and Victor Mendoza, a Parkland High School student, has North Carolina’s Fair Housing Act in both Spanish and English with an overlay of multi-hued, melted-wax crayons running down the legalese of the document.

Her artwork is one of five student pieces in ‘Transforming Race Art Exhibition,’ which will open today and run through Oct. 14 at START Gallery, Wake Forest University’s student art gallery in Reynolda Village. The opening will be from 6 to 8 tonight, after a discussion of the project and the art at 5:30.”

Read the full article online at the Winston-Salem Journal web site.

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