Permanent Art Collection
Black and White
Mary Frisbee
Johnson, Dorothy Simpson Taylor, 1993
Working in
collaboration between Johnson of the Art Department and Taylor of
African Studies along with their students that the artwork was
conceived. Intended to address issues of prejudice and bigotry in
the culture through an examination of language. The entire
installation was exhibited at the Indiana State Museum in
Indianapolis in 1994.
University students
created lists of words or phrases containing the words “black’ and
white”, while defining their own issues of race whether they be
positive or negative..
The piece
consists of forty-three individual chalkboards with vinyl lettering,
ranging in size from 18 inches by 24 inches to 4feet by 12 feet.
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