This is a Commitment-Jess Hebertson

There are only 15 works by female artists shown in the art history survey class here at Snow (out of 272 pieces total). Our professor keeps saying things like teaching mostly European and male artists is the standard, and that this is standard because it is “our cultural inheritance”. In my opinion, this kind of thinking is what has kept marginalized groups out of the arts in the first place. I want my work to be valued, I want other women’s work to be valued, and I want to celebrate the artists that paved the way for me to be sitting in art classes and pursuing a career in the arts. I’m committing to finding and learning about a non-European and/or female artist that I don’t know a lot about that isn’t taught in the survey course here at snow everyday for 30 days. I want to expand my visual library and celebrate the often uncelebrated.