Art, Protest, and Democracy (ONLINE)

The Professor of Practice Series at Pacific School of Religion is a cross-disciplinary series that brings global leaders on Artificial Intelligence, Business & Social Responsibility, and Arts and Race into transformative conversation and features a wide variety of events, including lectures, exhibitions, performances, and panel discussions.

Art and religion are often thought of as transcending the social and the political. Indeed, art that expresses a point-of-view about politics is often derided as propaganda, or, by definition, impure and of poor quality. This course starts from the recognition that art, like spirituality, is not neutral. Indeed, many artists think of their practice as essential to democracy, as central to the formation of the expression of popular will. In this course, we go further to deeply examine the way that local artists think and implement their creative practice to confront inequity and urge people to move towards racial justice.

Jeff is honored to have the opportunity to invite four different artists, and to interrogate and advance their own creative practice.

April 15: Art, Racial Justice, and Democracy

April 22: Art, Community, and Imagination

April 29: Art, Protest, and Democracy (this event)

May 6: Art and Activating Democracy

This ticket is for a single date. If you would like to register for a package of all 4 dates, click here to go to the package ticket. These events are free and online via Zoom.

About Jeff Chang: Jeff Chang is a critically acclaimed, award-winning journalist and author who has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts and music. He was the co-founder of ColorLines and his writings include We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation (2016)–which the Washington Post declared “the smartest book of the year”— and Who We Be: The Colorization of America (2014). A leading voice in how culture impacts, and often precedes, political change, he serves as vice president of Narrative, Arts, and Culture at Race Forward and was previously the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University.