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‘Through Their Eyes’: Celebrating Blackness at MHC

‘Through Their Eyes’: Celebrating Blackness at MHC

A Black woman in an intricately patterned quilted gown examines herself using a hand-held mirror. The other hand rests delicately on her temple. Her face is frozen in a state of self-analysis.

This photograph, titled “I Looked and Looked and Failed to See What so Terrified You,” is just one image from artist and photographer Carrie Mae Weems’ series “The Louisiana Project.” Weems’ piece was the concluding image in the student-led guided art tour “Through Their Eyes: Blackness Across Media,” which took place last Friday, Feb. 5.