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Equal Rights: Reggae and Social Change

MARCH 1 – APRIL 9, 2006

  • Silver Center Lobby
  • Opening event March 1, 4 – 6 p.m

Peter Tosh album, cover design, Andy Engel

This exhibition presents social history through Jamaican art and music as a way to engage intellectual and community discourse on cultural and social change. Using record album covers, supported by didactic panels, film and sound clips with voice and music samples, the exhibition documents how visual, instrumental and vocal artists from the Jamaican Diaspora ahve addressed social and political issues in America and internationally. Organized by Herbie Miller, Josh Chamberlain and Catherine Amidon.