DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/2PG7-M531
Defense Date
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Painting and Printmaking
First Advisor
Sandy Zohore
Second Advisor
Cara Benedetto
Third Advisor
Caitlin Cherry
Fourth Advisor
nicole killian
Fifth Advisor
Hope Ginsburg
Abstract
As I welcome Richmond, VA into my family, I find myself needing to make roots and webs and nets and branches that ground me, that place myself as a Black, queer, mixed race, artist, activist, educator, storyteller, and cultural worker in this city. I am called to the streets before I am called to my studio. I question what it means to be a part of an institution that is slowly eating this city up. I become a story collector. I need to know where I am and whose land I now call home.
Rights
© Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-4-2022
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