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Dean Rader is featured on Hello World!
Join Dean Rader and colleagues around the world in a gesture of global solidarity and hope. Hello World is an international project where artists have submitted art works to...
Healing Through Grassroots Social Justice Movements Created for Educators, by Educators
Farima Pour-Khorshid, assistant professor of Teacher Education, writes about Bay Area social justice movements in education and their impact as a researcher and educator....
Guantánamo’s Legacy
Today is the 17th anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba. Seven hundred and eighty Muslim men and boys were held in the prison....
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I was asked to share a reflection/response to the exhibit Anting Anting | Magic Objects by Michael Arcega at a Thacher/CRASE collaborative event “Inspirations from Anting Anting: Magic Objects...
Aesthetic Activism: Bullets Into Bells and Social Justice
The day I started writing this essay, two students were killed in yet another high school shooting in the United States. This time it was in New Mexico. The...
Enemy Alien: Uncovering Family History
Sherise Kimura reflects on an artifact as part of 10 x 10: Ten Objects, Ten Stories presented in conjunction with the Thacher Gallery exhibition Something from Nothing: Art and...
Encountering the City and the Self in Khary Lazarre-White’s Passage
In this post, assistant professor of English Samira Abdur-Rahman, moderator of the event, reflects on the themes of Passage by Khary Lazarre-White....
Return to Topaz
Ken Yoshioka reflects on a trip to Topaz, Utah in response to the Thacher Gallery exhibition Something from Nothing: Art and Handcrafted Objects from America’s Concentration Camps, August 21 – November 15,...