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SUMMARY:Artist Discussion with Jay Youngdahl
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DESCRIPTION:Join Artist Jay Youngdahl as he discusses his art exhibit "Wha
 t Did You Do In School Today?"\, displayed in near the Lucky Day Lobby. .\
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>About the exhibition:<br />What causes us 
 to think what we think? One major influence is what we learn in school.<br
  />&nbsp\;<br />This exhibition considers the effects of textbooks on stud
 ents\, like artist Jay Youngdahl\, who attended Little Rock Public Schools
  in the 1960s. In Little Rock\, and spurred by the Civil Rights movement\,
  issues of race were a constant part of life for the city&rsquo\;s African
  American community\, and also for a middle-class white boy like Youngdahl
 . He writes\, &ldquo\;While our schools were slightly integrated\, our tex
 tbooks taught us that life under slavery bordered on the idyllic\, where s
 laves &lsquo\;knew their place.&rsquo\; But that after the conclusion of t
 he Civil War\, former slaves were &lsquo\;idle\, penniless\, lawless\; the
 y stole\, plundered\, [and] burned houses&rsquo\; we were taught.&rdquo\; 
 Youngdahl features textbooks used in Little Rock public schools during the
  mid-Twentieth Century\, and via photography\, collage\, and sculpture\, c
 onsiders ways that what we are taught in schools has a lasting effect on p
 eople in adulthood.<br />&nbsp\;<br />About the artist:<br />Jay Youngdahl
  grew up in Little Rock\, Arkansas.&nbsp\; He currently lives and works be
 tween New York and St. Petersburg\, Florida. Youngdahl received his MFA fr
 om the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022\, a Masters in Divin
 ity from Harvard University in 2007\, and a law degree from the University
  of Texas at Austin in 1981. Mainly working in text\, collage\, photograph
 y\, and extended media\, his practice can be described as &ldquo\;particip
 atory action art.&rdquo\; Taking inspiration from his life experiences as 
 a union and civil rights lawyer in the South and Southwest\, he produces c
 onceptually oriented art exhibitions on contemporary themes.</p>\nhttps://
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