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Selected Projects 20<strong>16</strong>-<strong>18</strong><br />
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Details of Erick Maldonato’s paintings at the 224 Gallery, UMass Darthmouth<br />
plex social relations of slaves and slave masters.<br />
These artists continue to inspire me to turn history<br />
into art and to use the beautiful language of art to<br />
address important issues in Black communities.<br />
The ongoing political and racial issues that continue<br />
to develop mayhem in this country are what<br />
I planned to comment on through this research<br />
project that led to a solo exhibition, titled ID. In<br />
particular, I wanted to be able to give a strong<br />
voice to those UMD students who feel incapable of<br />
expressing themselves.<br />
Facing the everyday challenge of trying to communicate<br />
stories, purposes, and lives, my exhibit is a<br />
reflection of my identity. My subjects include students<br />
from campus who have succeeded in bringing<br />
awareness to blackness, continue to inspire and<br />
change the frame of blackness on campus, and who<br />
sustain a tradition of black representation that also
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