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ADRIAN — Laws dating as far back as 1640 — well before the United States of America was established — have either strengthened the institutionalism of racism in what is now the United States or have in some sense liberated Black people who have been oppressed.
That was the theme of a piece of artwork, “A Natural Language Search,” at the Inai art gallery at the Weber Retreat and Conference Center in Adrian. It was part of a special exhibit, “Unraveling Racism,” that recently ended.
Michelle Graznak, the Detroit-area artist who created “A Natural Language Search,” visited Inai on Jan. 15 during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend to speak about her artwork to Adrian Dominican sisters and associates and to members of the Lenawee County Chapter of the NAACP.
Graznak was part of a group of 12 Michigan artists who gathered regularly to listen to John Biewen’s podcast, “Seeing White,” and to share an artistic dialogue about the issues raised in the podcast. The artwork in “Unraveling Racism” is the result.
Graznak said she deliberated for a long time about how to approach the subject through art. She ultimately based her decision to create “A Natural Language Search” in part on her experience in a Catholic school when her Dominican teacher read from a history book about U.S. history and at one point closed the book and then spoke of the past from her own personal experiences.
“I realized that … the putting down of the book and talking from life experience...
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