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Please join us on Wednesday, April 7th at 6:30pm the second of four virtual panel discussions facilitated by Cleo Barnett , Executive Director of Amplifier .
Barnett facilitates a conversation with Lewis and DeCiccio about their journeys examining and reckoning with their whiteness while creating an artistic practice grounded in community.
Other events in this series include:
Ann Lewis is a multidisciplinary activist artist using painting, installation, and participatory performance in our public spaces to explore themes related to American identity, power structures, and justice. Her work interrogates power imbalances such as mass incarceration, police brutality, and the desecration of women’s and trans rights. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin she has shown at the Obama White House, and her mural See Her received an Americans for the Arts 2018 Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review Award. Her work has been discussed in Hyperallergic, Artnet, Interview Magazine, The LA Times, and The Guardian.
Kate DeCiccio is an Oakland based artist, educator & creative strategist. Her work centers portraiture for counter narrative, community storytelling & cultural strategy on behalf of abolition and collective liberation. DeCiccio is the Cultural Strategist for Performing Statistics, a project that supports youth organizers to close youth prisons across the country. Her collaborations include work with The People's Paper Coop, The Painted Desert Project, 826 National, The Women's March, Critical Resistance, Survived and Punished, Planting Justice and Dear Frontline. She's been commissioned by Amplifier Foundation to create work on behalf of The Women's March, The Science March and March For Our Lives. Her work has been featured in national and international news and media sources including The Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, The Daily Show, LA Times and Navajo Times and exhibited at INTO ACTION, Galeria de La Raza, The Mission Cultural Center, We Rise, Interference Archive and Politicon.