Join local artist Arianna Peak as she unveils her first solo exhibition exploring and expressing her own, and her friends’ multiple racial identities.
In “bi-racial,” artist Arianna Peak recognizes the thirty-three-year gap from 1967’s Loving vs. Virginia U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing interracial marriage, to the year 2000 when Alabama became the last state to remove a law banning it—within her lifetime. She seeks through this project to memorialize and celebrate biracial individuals and interracial couples whose existences were marginalized.
Deeply personal and visually striking, Ms. Peak magnifies people with lighting, atmosphere, and compelling poses that allow the viewer to see beauty in a stranger—possibly inspiring them to seek more genuine human connection in their reality.
Join her as she shares her own story as well as those of the people in her life in a visual representation of the human condition—universal, yet also very personal.
In addition to a conversation with the artist and a chance to enjoy the exhibition, light refreshments will be served. This opening event is in-person only.
Can’t make the opening event? The exhibition will remain on view through February 28, 2023.
This activity was made possible, in part, with support from the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County.
Opens January 26, 2023, 6-7:30pm
In-person only.
Civil Rights Heritage Center
1040 West Washington
More info: crhc.iusb.edu