Source: UF College of the Arts

Researchers, staff, and students from the UF Center for Arts in Medicine launched an online repository to elevate arts-based responses to racism.

The searchable, open-access database allows anyone to explore or submit artwork, articles, projects, organizations, and individuals who are using arts practices to raise awareness, amplify marginalized voices, facilitate dialogue, or promote action and change related to anti-racism.

Natalie Rella, communications coordinator, said the idea stemmed from the center’s existing COVID-19 repository, which similarly captured how artists were responding worldwide to a public health crisis.

Through the Center for Arts in Medicine’s Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America initiative with ArtPlace America, scholars and artists recognized racism as a public health crisis in a white paper published in 2019.

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