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When cultural assumptions conflict with personal artistic identity

My sculpture teacher is Italian and keeps telling me to embrace my African roots through my art but I was born in Milan and feel more connected to contemporary European aesthetics

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What we've seen

The student confronts others' expectations about their creative expression based on racial rather than lived cultural experience.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African aesthetics — across the continent?”

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