As we look forward to our Intervention Projects, I thought it would be interesting to share this TEDx Talk by Jeffreen M. Hayes, who is a trained art historian and curator. Hayes shares her childhood experience learning to find her voice through watercolors. Hayes is inspired by the work of Augusta Savage, an American sculptor who helped African American artists show their art to the world by welcoming them into her own studio. Hayes welcomes people for food gatherings at her home. “Food is a neutralizer,” Hayes says. Those gatherings allow people in Hayes’s community to discuss art and support each other’s work. Through our Intervention Projects proposals, we can also help support artists who are silenced in our society.
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