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A Writer Says That Art Can – And Must – Turn Hatred Around

IDEAS Posted: December 11, 2016 8:45 am

“Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. Art can take something as dark as the Hay Institution for Girls, as hateful as that graffiti, and in applying the transfiguring power of ‘something else,’ it can give us the strength not to turn away and normalize, but to keep looking—and in doing so to question, provoke, understand, reject, change.”

IDEAS Published: 12.09.16

Read the story in Literary Hub Published: 12.09.16

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