{"id":33794,"date":"2013-09-22T02:34:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T02:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33794"},"modified":"2013-09-22T02:34:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T02:34:22","slug":"faculty-alumnus-david-huffmans-out-of-bounds-at-sfac-gallery-a-shift-toward-dialogue-about-race-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33794","title":{"rendered":"Faculty-Alumnus David Huffman’s “Out of Bounds” at SFAC Gallery a “SHIFT” Toward Dialogue About Race in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faculty-Alumnus David Huffman’s “Out of Bounds” at SFAC Gallery a “SHIFT” Toward Dialogue About Race in America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

California College of the Arts<\/a>
\nFeatured News<\/a>
\n2011-09-14<\/p>\n

Jim Norrena<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alumnus David Huffman<\/a> (MFA 1998), who is a recently tenured assistant professor in CCA’s undergraduate Painting\/Drawing Program<\/a> and Graduate Program in Fine Arts<\/a>, is one of three featured artists in the current group exhibition SHIFT: Three Projects Constructing a New Dialogue About Race in America<\/em> at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery<\/a> (through December 10, 2011).<\/p>\n

Shifting Demographics, Shifting Races<\/strong><\/p>\n

SHIFT<\/em> is described as an exhibition that \u201cpushes the public to think about our changing demographics and what role race plays in our post-millennial American circumstance.\u201d Also featured are Bay Area artists Elizabeth Axtman [The Love Renegade #308: I Love You Keith Bardwell (Phase 1)<\/em>] and Travis Somerville (Places I’ve Never Been<\/em>), yet it is Huffman\u2019s Out of Bounds<\/em>, his first multimedia exhibition, that is positioned in the Main Gallery at 401 Van Ness Avenue.<\/p>\n

“Diversity can be viewed as a social activism of inclusion,” says Huffman, who is mixed race, “to include various groups of people who are normally rejected by prejudice, regardless of their capabilities. Out of Bounds<\/em> includes works that examine various perspectives — some of which might normally be rejected because of their racial affiliation. I think that diversity is also about broadening the spectrum of possibilities from a variety of capable peoples and ideas.”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Faculty-Alumnus David Huffman’s “Out of Bounds” at SFAC Gallery a “SHIFT” Toward Dialogue About Race in America California College of the Arts Featured News 2011-09-14 Jim Norrena Alumnus David Huffman (MFA 1998), who is a recently tenured assistant professor in CCA’s undergraduate Painting\/Drawing Program and Graduate Program in Fine Arts, is one of three featured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[15882,15881,15880],"class_list":["post-33794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-california-college-of-the-arts","tag-david-huffman","tag-jim-norrena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}