In 2017 BLM Movement launched their first exhibition. Thirty black Richmond artists were united to express the public outcry in a shape of art. And since the Unitarian Universalist Church had a very strong BLM Educational Program, it was chosen to be approached, as one of the organizers has later shared.
In order to fight racism in Richmond area, there was established "Living the Richmond' Pledge" program, which is the church's own program. The BLM exhibition and its theme nicely correlate with it. Basically, the workshops that were organized for the exhibition were aimed at ending racism mainly in Richmond but undoubtedly the event attracted worldwide attetion. A series of classes were held to learn about "White Privelege" as well.
Initially FaceBook was used to hire artists for the exhibition but later it was decided to accept all the artists who wished to collaborate and take part in this important event.
Lynn Stevens, Anne Wrinn and Jennifer Yane were the organizers of the exhibition. Their idea was to use art to communicate the growing signs and various expressions of racism that take place in the USA. The curators also said that they wanted to express the pain of black people and to continue educating on instituonalization of racism.
The exhibition kept going for the next 4 years occuring once a year in Richmiond.
Sources:
https://commonwealthtimes.org/2017/02/06/black-lives-matter-exhibit-unites-richmond-artists/
https://blogs.vcu.edu/cabellscreen/2017/02/17/black-lives-matter-a-community-outpouring/
https://urnow.richmond.edu/features/article/-/19593/longtime-ur-employees-art-featured-in-black-lives-matter-art-exhibit.html?utm_source=urnow&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=features-story
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