“This year’s [2016] curators, Elissa Blount-Moorhead, Rylee Eterginoso, Tumelo Mosaka, and Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, asked artists to engage race according to: Who? What? Where? When? How? ‘Race’ carries many meanings, such as the socially-constructed categories attached to skin colors, the presidential race of election season, and a foot race. Yet none of these are mutually exclusive. In addition to the ongoing strength of AiOP’s ability to generate conversations between strangers, projects in the 2016 festival demonstrated how the intertwining meanings of race can give form to new artistic projects and means of protest.” Corey Dzenko, A Review of Art in Odd Places 2016: RACE

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