By Kenneth Best for UConn Today
With 82 percent of adults aged 18-29 using Facebook and a doubling of Pinterest and Instagram usage since 2012 according to the Pew Research Center, it is not surprising that Millennial college students want to share information using a variety of media, including art in a museum.
This is reflected in the interactive exhibition at the William Benton Museum of Art “IN-DIFFERENCE: Reflections on Race,” which was designed by students in the School of Fine Arts as a collaborative classroom response to the 2015- 2016 UConn Reads theme of “Race in America.” The exhibit continues through March 13.
Last fall, students in the departments of Art and Art History and Digital Media and Design created the exhibition taking inspiration from “The Race Card Project,” which was developed by journalist Michele Norris, a former NPR news reporter and host of “All Things Considered.”
“The Race Card Project” asks people to think about the word race and distill their thoughts, experiences, or observations about race into just six words. For the Benton exhibition, students in graphic design and digital media classes used typography, color, and motion to visually communicate their six-word designs projected on a screen.
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