This year VAPA students from all of the GUSD high schools participated in a collaboration with Reflect Space Gallery at the Glendale Central Library for their exhibition Reckoning: Racism & Resistance in Glendale. The student response is now part of the exhibition. Click on the image to visit the student exhibition:
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Hoover High School hosted an artist visit with Glendale artist and educator April Bey. Students had an opportunity to hear April talk about her artwork and how the Reckoning exhibition inspired her public art piece "Colonial Swag". Click on the image to watch the artist visit on youtube:
During the Reckoning exhibition, the Glendale Library hosted a discussion between Donzaleigh Abernathy and Hannibal B. Johnson, author of Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples With Its Historical Racial Trauma. At the end of the discussion the curators of the Reckoning exhibition did a virtual walk-through of the student exhibition and talked about the student's projects. The entire conversation is incredible. Here is a link to the video, the curator walkthrough begins at 1:13:42