A Mile in Your Shoes: Sharing Diverse Identity Perspectives

Using visual art as a bridge-building tool to broach difficult and personal conversations, artist Robin Holder will highlight her social equity art to inspire a dialogue with the audience about the challenges, opportunities, and complexities we face from our unique backgrounds in our diverse nation. This will take the form of a 40-minute workshop, conversation and partial lecture, in which Holder will introduce an artwork, topic and personal story. Audience members will add their narratives and we will engage in contextualizing life experiences in relation to our fellow visitors despite differing backgrounds.

Join the virtual event at https://clu.zoom.us/j/99640211813. This event will not be recorded.

The program is presented in conjunction with the virtual exhibit “Robin Holder: On Labor and Youth,” by the Cal Lutheran galleries. See the exhibit at https://rollandgallery.wixsite.com/robinholder.

Holder’s work centers on the complexities and conflicts of cultural and racial identity. Over her career she has developed innovative approaches in her mixed technique works through a variety of media, which often are influenced by community dialogues and extensive artist interviews. She has completed several site-specific public art commissions for New Jersey Transit, New York School Authority, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and 34 glass windows for the New York City subway system. She is a 2020 Clark Hulings Fund for Artists Executive Fellow, the recipient of a Brooklyn Arts Council Individual Artist Grant and a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artist As Catalyst Grant. Her work is in collections at the Library of Congress, Yale University, Washington State Arts Commission and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works from her studio in New Jersey.

Image: Robin Holder, “We Are Here,” colored pencil, acrylic, paint and archival pigment print, 54 x 44 inches. Courtesy of the artist.