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Photo of The Social Mirror, a work by artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Gelatin silver print, poignant photograph capturing Florence Owens Thompson, a destitute mother with her children during the Great Depression, symbolizing the struggles of migrant workers.

A series of 60 panels illustrating the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the early 20th century.

Sea of ice melts into off the edge of the mass and drains into the actual sea

Photograph of Sculpture "Cartwheels" by artist Susan Leibovitz Steinman.

Two whales swimming in ocean

Glenn Ligon's "Stranger in the Village #1" (1990) is a neon artwork that directly quotes James Baldwin's powerful 1953 essay, "Stranger in the Village." The glowing white neon text spells out a key excerpt from Baldwin's reflections on being the…

Linnea Bast is an artist and designer who founded Linnea Botanicals, a studio specializing in biophilic design. They create custom installations, including preserved lichen art and living vertical gardens, with the goal of bringing nature indoors to…

"Border Tuner" is a large-scale, participatory art installation designed to interconnect the cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Powerful searchlights make “bridges of light” that open live sound channels for communication across…

Aerial imgage of car centric Houston in the early 1980's