Today's Google Doodle

[Flo Mingo]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/01/us/google-doodle-greensboro-sit-in-anniversary-trnd/index.html

Perhaps the most sanitized version of the Greensboro sit in EVER?

[alittlelark]

1. It's a very cool shadow box art.

I don't understand the 'sanitized' reference.

[Flo Mingo]

3. It's missing all the menacing white people

Perhaps white washed would have been a better term.

I have no problem with the artwork and it is a nice little shadow box but it misses the larger picture. The brave protesters weren't sitting there chatting with a friendly soda jerk. The were surrounded by and being harrassed by the local citizenry. Bravery in the face of angry resistance is the bigger story.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. About the artist of the diorama:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/01/us/google-doodle-greensboro-sit-in-anniversary-trnd/index.html

Collins captures black history through dioramas
Collins has been creating dioramas that capture moments in black history for 24 years through the African American Miniature Museum, a project she started with her husband Eddie Lewis.

Collins had always wanted a dollhouse as a little girl, but as the daughter of a single mom, her family couldn't afford it, she wrote in a blog post. When she bought her first dollhouse 40-some years later, she discovered her passion for using dioramas to tell stories.


Karen Collins, founder of the African American Miniature Museum, creates dioramas that capture moments in black history in the US.

That passion gained a new meaning when her son was incarcerated, she wrote. In the midst of her pain and anguish, she started the African American Miniature Museum.

The museum began as a mobile project in the 1990s, when Collins displayed her work in venues like schools, libraries and churches as a way of contextualizing black history for children -- and today, she continues to operate the museum from home. Collins says on her website that she hopes to have a permanent location someday for the more than 50 dioramas she has created, which depict events from the Middle Passage to America to the Black Lives Matter protests.

I think that, while you see her art as "sanitized", I see it as accessible to all, young and old alike.

[Flo Mingo]

4. Funny thing about art, isn't it?

We all see and interpret as our opinions and experiences inform us. Not throwing shade at the artist. Just a white woman here, trying to be an advocate for accurate representation of history.