@@hanzkoontz7175 You must feel very strongly to cut & paste your comment into multiple replies. I'm interested in why? Is there a personal experience informing your view?
I was discouraged at Blackburn University by my white female tutor for looking at Betty Saars and the black power movement of the 70s & "80's. I find it interesting how the institutions and those who work in them think their voices matter rather than their actions! Especially in Lancashire. As a white artist in Lancashire with African mixed heritage I find it ironic that she says there was no black artists in the 80s? Really, so many were in the charts singing & dancing their souls out. Then we have the carnivals.. Or did she mean painters in general. I think those in the institutions who teach art should take a look at themselves in the mirror and really question themselves if they are in the right job, especially in Lancashire.