Visual Arts graduating class grapples with COVID-19, racial justice and life in 2020
COVID-19 and the social isolation that followed, Black Lives Matter protests spurred by the killing of George Floyd – 2020 was a strange and taxing year for everyone, including artists. Students from the graduating class of the Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFAs) Visual Arts programme reflected its impact in their work. That work has been collected in a publication, Certificate in Visual Arts Catalogue 2020.
“Art offers a language when we are overwhelmed and there are no words,” says Dr Marsha Pearce, lecturer and Visual Arts Unit coordinator, in the introduction. “This is the foundational understanding of art that we nurture at the Virtual Arts certificate programme at The UWI DCFA.”
Dr Pearce and her students have given their kind permission for UWI TODAY to share some of their outstanding work.
To see the entire Certificate in Visual Arts Catalogue 2020, visit https://issuu.com/dcfavisual/docs/booklet_final.
