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In 2021, The Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation’s The Social Justice Fund launched the #YouBelongHere campaign to encourage a sense of belonging among people in the community and around the world. The art initiative was conceived in response to the mass peaceful protests that organically centered in front of the Barclays Arena in the months following George Floyd’s 2020 murder. Using famed artist Tavares Strachan’s “You Belong Here/We Belong Here” art installation — which is currently on display outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY — as a visual backdrop, the project encourages people to share their stories of belonging on social media using the hashtag #YouBelongHere. In this panel discussion, Strachan speaks with founder of the Social Justice Fund, Clara Wu Tsai, alongside public art historian Kymberly Pinder and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Tamar Szabó Gendler, to share how this project was envisioned and realized, and how public art can affect social change in communities around the world.
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