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The Antiracist Classroom encourages and facilitates anti-racist art and design practice.

To this end, we curate spaces, ways of working, and relationships through which artists and designers, especially, can practice cultivating anti-racist creative practices — from our actual classrooms to our studios to our neighborhoods.

COMING SOON ︎
11/07: AICAD INCLUDE ME Symposium: “Outside/In”
11/19: To Hell with Good Intentions? Dinner
11/20: To Hell with Good Intentions? Workshop
ICYMI ︎ REPRESENT: Power in Color At least 100 folks joined us to celebrate with the 21 students and alumni of color who contributed work. Check out the photos from the event and info on contributing creatives here.

ICYM I︎ Reconstructing Practice

Reconstructing Practice brought over 100 participants to Art Center’s Wind Tunnel on July 13 - 14 for sessions, fellowship, and a gallery opening. Check out the video below or the book here.

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︎ ARCHIVES

37 POSTERS X 14 ARTISTS

POSTER SERIES

What tools, strategies or approaches might you use to interrupt or counteract microaggressions?

These 37 posters responded to an open to creatives, from amateurs and semi-professionals to professionals, between October - November 2017. Fourteen artists submitted the pieces shown below. Their work was exhibited at the Fine Art & Illustration building on Art Center’s Campus and reviewed during a public exhibit and critique on November 14.

Learning how to counteract microaggressions is different from learning how to put on an oxygen mask. That being said, the tools to start combatting them definitely exist, e.g. asking questions or stating facts. However, I went about designing this poster from the position of learning how to even begin to speak when confronted. How do you fi nd your voice in the face of a comment that aims to make you feel < than? I used what I imagine to be “classroom” materials. My hope is that this style of making and the words I chose are accessible to people of diverse ages and backgrounds. When we learn how to interrupt our own insecurities, we can find the courage to speak out.

Brittany Ko
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This poster takes a familiar form—those posters with tear-off numbers that say “for sale” or “pet lost, $100 reward”—and points it toward a very specifi c microaggression. Complimenting a person’s English might seem like the “nice and polite” thing to do, but as this poster reveals, it’s really not! The tear offs take the form of fortune cookie messages—a cheeky reference to the flattened ideas and assumptions that too many people make about who Chinese-American people (and any other non-white American group, for that matter) are supposed to be.

Chrystal Li
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Dado Cabaravdic
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Dado Cabaravdic
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Dado Cabaravdic
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Hilda Rios
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Hilda Rios
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Hilda Rios
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Kayla Salisbury
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Kayla Salisbury
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Kayla Salisbury
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Kayla Salisbury
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Kayla Salisbury
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Kayla Salisbury
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Kayla Salisbury
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Kayla Salisbury
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Luis Zepeda
022

Marcelo Verdad
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Marcelo Verdad
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Marcelo Verdad
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Fallon Lopez
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Fallon Lopez
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Fallon Lopez
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Fallon Lopez
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William Huynh
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William Huynh
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William Huynh
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William Huynh
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Jamie Polancic
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Nicci Yin
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Nicci Yin
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Nicci Yin
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Nidhi Singh Rathore
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Xinrui Chen
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Xinrui Chen
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Xinrui Chen
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Benin Marshall
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