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Video created by RISD alumni Eloise Sherrid addressing race and identity from RISD student perspectives.
“The Room of Silence,” is a short documentary about race, identity and marginalization at the Rhode Island School of Design. Based on interviews conducted by myself and the campus organization Black Artists and Designers, this film contains well under a third of the stories we collected in March 2016, and an unknown fraction of the stories belonging to students we didn’t have a chance to meet with.
This video is meant to serve as a discussion tool and testimony on behalf of the growing student activist movement on our campus, and around the country. The video has been shown at faculty and departmental meetings, and its release online marks the next step in exposing these issues and fostering dialogue between students and school.
There are a lot of issues present in the extremely intersectional problem this video is attempting to tackle: issues that cannot and should not be simplified down and crammed into twenty minutes. Please consider this the first entry in a necessary conversation. - Eloise Sherrid
This video is also available on Vimeo.
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Publication Date
2016
Keywords
BAAD, Black Artists and Designers, racial justice, Room of Silence, activism, RISD students and institutional governance
Disciplines
Art Education | Race and Ethnicity
Recommended Citation
Black Artists and Designers (BAAD) and Sherrid, Eloise, "The Room of Silence" (2016). Racial Justice. 18.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/archives_activism_racialjustice/18