“For me,” artist Kerry James Marshall told an MCA audience, “the thing that has the greatest transformative capacity in the art world today, in terms of what people expect to see when they go to the art museum, is a painting that has a black figure in it, because 95

i. I work as a: I Consider myself a bag maker. My passion is to create vessels that carry the most personal items of our everyday. ii. I do this creative work because: At an early age it was apparent that working with my hands would be my future. The five fingers

i. I work as a Writer ii. I do this creative work because: I have always written.  Before I knew how to print I was writing stories through play. iii. Personal qualities that help me in my work are: I focus and I am persistent. iv. The greatest challenges around doing

“Ssssssh.” “Sssssssh.” Having been enticed by the beauties of Rome, exhausted by the lines outside the Vatican, and stunned by the sculptures within, the crowds start to burble as they push their way into the Sistine Chapel. “Woah!” “Regardez!”  “Venga!” When –  in the face of Michelangelo’s four and a