My collaborative art partner and I got commissioned to create a public installation about American identity, but they want to celebrate national resilience and I want to interrogate national mythology — and we can't figure out how to make something together that honors both our relationships to this country. The deadline is approaching and we're stuck between our different versions of what art owes the nation.
More people experience this than they realize.
Creative collaborators are struggling to balance competing artistic visions of patriotic expression when their work will represent national identity to the public.
“Where Are You with National identity and patriotism examined?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.