County: Steuben
Artistic Area: Visual Arts/Craft
Project Title: You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught
Project Summary: Using textile and thread this project will expose the overlooked origins of derogatory songs that are now seamlessly taught to our children today.
Website: www.thurberstudio.net
Work Statement Excerpt: “At the advent of the Black Lives Matter movement, I like many across the world, began to examine my past and my experiences and discovered racism throughout. I felt a need to express this through art using materials that are integral to people everywhere – textiles, and more specifically clothing.”
Work Sample:
Letty by Julie Thurber
