Housatonic Museum of Art 2018
‘Brainstorming Session’ for Minority Politics Art Project Invites ‘Those Frustrated by the Current Political Climate’
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The Housatonic Museum of Art will host a special project launch and brainstorming session for artist Rachel Owens’ project, “Life On the Other Side of a Cracked Glass Ceiling – Bridgeport.”
Owens’ artwork will center on the Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses, the oldest standing examples of Bridgeport’s seaside village known as Little Liberia. A series of scaffolded casts of the front porch of Mary’s house will be activated for discussions and performances pertinent to Bridgeport’s diverse population. Part of the ‘For Freedoms’ platform, the project will seek to create greater participation in the arts and civil society. For Freedoms, inspired by American artist Norman Rockwell’s paintings of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms (1941)—freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear, produces content to advocate for inclusive civic participation. During the brainstorming session, which will be held on Tuesday, Oct.