Artist Statement
Karah Thomas
Social Justice Posters
Reading helps shape your imagination. It can bring you into a creative mindset that makes you feel like you're actually being transported to a different time or place. My poster shows a boy reading a book in English, while sitting over a map of the Middle East, showing how limitless his imagination is. Your imagination knows no bounds.
Drawing inspiration from Maya Angelou's poem, "Still I Rise," I view my poster as a way of saying brighter days are ahead of you. All over the media, young African Americans are constantly painted in a negative light. I wanted my poster to show a black man with such a bright future he had to cover his eyes.
Inclusive Stock Photography
The Inclusive Stock Photography project was designed to address the scarcity of people of color, multicultural people, and LGBTQ+ people in commercial stock photography by creating professional-quality images of these underrepresented people in a variety of everyday settings, including romantic and platonic relationships, family, and communities.