Columbia Artists | Making Art During the BLM Movement

Columbia artists talk about making art during the current Black Lives Matter movement

Within days of the world seeing video of George Floyd being killed during a brutal altercation with police officers in Minneapolis, Minn., Columbia artists began responding to a moment that would only become clearer in the days ahead. A song here, an image there. Many are older works presented with new context, but all suggest that the surge of protests was also pushing a surge of artistic endeavors.

For some, like mixed media visual artist Cedric Umoja, the energy rippling across the country only intensified his current efforts.