URBANE MUSE x BLM
No Justice No Peace
From George Floyd to Emmett Till to the many names before them we’ll never know, our countries systemic racism has stolen hopes, dreams, aspirations and lives of African Americans. Today, it seems like we’ve reached a paradigm shift and it’s because of the engagement, awareness and determination of all races. We can’t be complacent, accustomed to this racism pandemic in society, accepting it as normal. Hopefully, we will soon reach a turning point and we will begin to make drastic changes so that generations to follow will have a brighter future.
Chris Smith
Description:
Title: No Justice No Peace (Breonna Taylor)
Physical Dimensions: h12x w9in
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on linen panel
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
Description:
Title: No Justice No Peace (George Floyd)
Physical Dimensions: h12x w9in
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on linen panel
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(February 5, 1995 – February 26, 2012) Trayvon Benjamin Martin was a 17-year-old African American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in Sanford, Florida.
Title : “Trayvon Benjamin Martin” (Study)
February 5, 1995 – February 26, 2012
Size : 18″ x 24″
Type : Graphite on paper
Title : “Tamar Rice” (Study)
June 25, 2002 – November 23, 2014
Size : 18″ x 24″
Type : Graphite and watercolor on paper
Title : “Michael Brown” (Study)
May 20, 1996 – August 9, 2014
Size : 18″ x 24″
Type : Graphite and watercolor on paper