2021 | Racism Untaught

Racism Untaught workboard

Based on curricula developed by our guest curators, Racism Untaught will present concepts of racialized design – artifacts, systems, and experiences that perpetuate elements of racism – and use the Racism Untaught framework to unpack, reimagine, and create anti-racist design approaches.

Exhibition Details

Racism Untaught

  • Racism Untaught
  • January 19, 2021
  • HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall

Guest curators: Terresa Moses, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Director of Design Justice, and Lisa Mercer, Assistant Professor and Graduate Co-Coordinator of Graphic Design for the School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Based on curricula developed by our guest curators, Racism Untaught will present concepts of racialized design – artifacts, systems, and experiences that perpetuate elements of racism – and use the Racism Untaught framework to unpack, reimagine, and create anti-racist design approaches. Racism Untaught was developed to address an identified gap in design education and industry to provide opportunities for participants to foster conversations in project-based learning environments focused on anti-racism to ensure new ideas, critical thinking, and forms of making racism untaught.