\u2018Us Them We\u2019 concludes on Juneteenth<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Professor Toby Sisson and Nancy Burns, co-curators of ‘Us Them We’ at the Worcester Art Museum, introduce the exhibit to Clark University leaders during a recent tour.\n<\/p>\n
With just a few days left for the public to see the “Us Them We | Race Ethnicity Identity<\/a>” exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum<\/a>, Toby Sisson<\/a> feels she’s met a personal goal. The Clark professor, program director of studio art<\/a>, and co-curator of the exhibition wanted to show students that they can find a universal message in art despite differences in race, gender, or nationality.<\/p>\n “I’d always hoped that the students would see artwork created by a diverse number of artists who didn’t necessarily share their lived experience or their racial or ethnic identity and be able to identify with the ideas within that work,” she says. “This was a great opportunity for students to explore their own identity, and how that related to ideas expressed by people they thought were different from them, only to discover how much they had in common.”<\/p>\n “Us Them We” is a multi-layered exhibition that explores how contemporary artists since the mid-1970s have used devices like text, juxtaposition, pattern, and seriality to explore socio-political concepts in their work. Sisson and Nancy Burns, the Stoddard Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Worcester Art Museum, co-curated the exhibition and collaborated on Sisson’s spring 2021 Contemporary Directions course.<\/p>\n