About

Daughter of Contrast

I live on the dividing line, I lay on a four-point intersection of black, white, lower class, and affluent: food stamps and private schools, section eight housing, and Hampton Beach vacation homes. I strive to prove my blackness as a privileged light-skinned American.

Lithuanian immigrants intent on finding a new life in the land of the free, slave ancestors traveling from Georgia to South Carolina and making modern moves to the north brought immigrant lineage and forced migrants together.

I was born and raised in the hood of Boston, the urban environments I was raised in have shaped my visual aesthetics, the hood being my life’s backdrop has provided me with many inspirations and a particular perspective.

Hood politics, the process of gentrification, my own biracial identity, and how the “other” race identity is defined by projected categorization. My work is autobiographical, I sculpt with clay, make molds, and cast forms. I cut, rip, glue, tape, fold, and slice paper skins and walls, creating city scrapes and the biracial being. I am the daughter of a black man and a white woman, my work has had contrast in mind from its inception. I highlight the many class and racial hierarchies within these social constructions.

I am Daughter of Contrast; a reflection of who I am made from and what I produce.

Ms.Bennett

As an arts educator, my teaching is hip hop, with that I mean it is a pastiche of history, culture, art, respect, representation, expression, and experimentation. My classroom is tranquil yet active, a sculpture classroom open to all mediums. Through my lesson plans and the experiences I give my students opportunities to uncover their personal histories to understand their futures. My students discover new connection with materials and techniques, being innovative and resourceful. My students are expressive, inquisitive, and inspired in the classroom, art is a tool they can be used to share their thoughts, feeling, and opinions.

I believe all students should have equity in the classroom 

I believe all teachers should be passionate, enthusiastic and knowledgeable of the subject they teach and have a calling to education allowing you to have genuine connection with students  

I believe all administration and institution leaders should have years of experience in teaching in the classroom before having control of a school/department 

Mission Hill, Boston, Ma