Opening Reception
April 27, 2019 •10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Leatherby Libraries Hall of Art
Leatherby Libraries, First Floor

Exhibition Dates: April 27, 2019 - May 20, 2019
Free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served.

Special thanks to the Donna Ford Attallah College of Educational Studies and Benjamín Vázquez for making this exhibition possible, and to the Office of Diversity & Inclusion for sponsoring the exhibition opening reception.

This exhibition is part of Chapman University’s 4th Annual Education and Ethnic Studies Summit, a one-day event on April 27, 2019 featuring a host of nationally recognized experts in the Ethnic Studies field as well as community activists and leaders. The theme of this year’s one-day event is “Ethnic Studies Community Movements: From Resistance to Policy.”

About the Exhibition:
Valley High School Ethnic Studies class studied the school- to-prison pipeline as explained through The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. To tell this narrative the youth created murals using wheat paste paper as the genre. The main mural is the timeline of racism that leads to mass incarceration of people of color. Three other murals tell the stories of young men killed by violent racist society brought upon us by this history. We created “Altar Murals” to celebrate the lives of these young men. The works presented at Chapman University are duplicates of original art displayed in the halls of Valley HS.
Both wheat paste and mural-making having been used by social justice movements to spread ideas to the masses.