Right On! is a project in response to the social upheaval of 2020 on systemic racism. Eng pays homage to conceptual artist, On Kawara’s Today Series and appropriates his conceptual date paintings into a civil rights project. 32 plaques painted skin-toned colors each have a date and a QR code. Each date corresponds to landmark civil rights case. The selected dates are not limited to racial justice, but also include historical cases addressing discrimination by gender, disabilities, immigration, class, and sexuality. The project was extended to include a political art poster campaign and public procession. See below. To read more about each case that corresponds to each plaque click on button below.
a social justice art project 2020-2023 | press release | Daily Camera article
The Social justice art procession
In 2022 Eng expanded the series to address specifically the rise in Asian hate crimes. The court case dates trace the events that laid the foundation of xenophobic and racist opinions and actions against Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders living in America. Eight additional plaques with dates of civil rights cases directly affecting immigrants and American citizens of Asian descent were sponsored by the Center for Humanities of CU Boulder. Her Ph.D. program, Intermedia arts, Writing and Performance sponsored a poster campaign. To reach a wider audience, she decided to organize a political art performance in the form of a silent procession through downtown Boulder that took place in October 2022.
Thank you to the Right On! Boulder sponsors and donors
Thank you to those individuals who supported this project in Boulder: Noah Anast, Sara Bolduc, Amelia Brackett, Ellen Do, Lori Emerson, Alex Eng, Lorraine Emery, Shelly Fuller, Nathan Hardaway, Azia Abrahan-May, Don Murray, Kate Nicholson, Ifeanyi Oganwu, Gabrielle Shapiro, Vita Waters, Jennifer Ho, Joshua Kaizuka, Bryan Lai, Stephanie Nguyen, Andy Noguchi, Erik Castro, Patricia Kelly, Robert Ransick, Fumie Shimada, Zack Jacobson Weaver, Bettina Wiesenthal, Nancy and Joe Walker and members of Asian Unity, Ps Delta Psi, Society Asian Scientists and Engineers, and Atlas Art Institute. Special thanks to the sponsors of the making of and exhibition of the art plaques: BLDG61, Boulder County Hazardous Waste, Rob Hendershot Maker Micro Grant, Transforming Creatives Grant, and the Boulder Museum.
