part 5: feb 23

Today we spilled out onto the third floor - the third floor foyer/lobby and classroom 301. 301 is where all of our history and theory courses take place. This is the same classroom where, 3 years ago, the faculty promised they were going to change the framed photographs of famous white dance artists to reflect the multitude of dance artists of color who have been seminal figures in shaping modern dance history. To date, the photos have not been changed.

So in honor of Black History Month (February), we have done it ourselves, for 16 of the photos in classroom 301, plus 2 in the foyer between classroom 301 and Studio 300. We posted photographs of seminal black dancers and choreographers over the glass frames, which included (in first name alphabetical order): Alvin Ailey, Arthur Mitchell, Bill "BoJangles" Robinson, Bill T. Jones, Carmen de LaVallade, Dianne Walker, Frankie Manning, Gregory Hines, Henry LeTang, Josephine Baker, Judith Jamison, Katherine Dunham, Norma Miller, Ralph Lemon, Robert Reed, Sammy Davis Jr, Savion Glover, Tight Eyez

In the 3rd floor foyer, we posted photos of the following African Americans (alphabetical order): Florence Griffith-Joyner, Langston Hughes, Melvin Tolson, Nikki Giovanni

We posted in both 301 and in the foyer writings and quotes from the following African Americans (alphabetical order): Angela Davis, August Wilson Jr., Colin Powell, Damion, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, James Weldon Johnson, John Hope Franklin, Larry Wilmore, Malcolm X, Marimba Ani, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. Dubois, Yolanda Pierce, Zora Neale Hurston

One quote from a non-African American: Susun Weed

Combined person hours: 17
This figure does not include research, organizing, printing, hashing and rehashing ideas, documentation...and recovery.

Financial costs: final costs to be calculated. Today we spent $85 on refilling ink cartridges that had been brand new as of part 2 of this protest and had not been used for printing any other material. spent $15 on photo paper. Regular office paper, multiple rolls of tape.

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door - inside 301, that opens to the foyer

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a quote from John Hope Franklin on how we must go beyond textbooks...

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second wall

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Katherine Dunham

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Ralph Lemon

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Josephine Baker, Savion Glover (left to right)

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3rd floor foyer

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on the outside of the door of studio 300

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