Diversity

art + history = biography + identity.

This blog focuses on portraiture

How we see ourselves and how we look at others.

Remembering Women Who Fought for Integration in the Nation’s Capital.

This Fourth of July, let's remember these women, and others, who practiced forgiveness but never gave up the fight to live up to the ideals

Art & Justice at The Atlantic Festival.

On October 4, 2018 I had the honor of opening the Atlantic Festival Race + Justice Summit held at the National Portrait Gallery. Below is...

Martin Luther King Jr., black civil rights, and the subversion of Confederate portraiture.

A photograph of Dr. King and Andrew Young leading a night rally in Grenada, Mississippi on June 14, 1966, shows how closely civil rights...

To See the World Through the Eyes of a Child.

On March 1, 2018 a Facebook post of two year-old Parker Curry gazing open-mouthed at the portrait of Michelle Obama's portrait at the...

A Most Extraordinary Week: Unveiling the Obama Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery

By any measure, it has been a remarkable week, starting with the unveiling of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle...

Why is there so little diversity on the Google portrait-matching app?

Even while having fun with the Google portraiture-matching app, some people are noting a lack of diversity in their paired doppelgängers....