A Civic Curriculum

Vision & Justice: A Civic Curriculum is a free, downloadable resource for anyone interested in art, culture, and visual representation.

Released by Vision & Justice and Aperture, the curriculum includes 31 texts on topics ranging from civic space and memorials to the intersections of race, technology, and justice. Originally distributed to coincide with the Vision & Justice Convening in 2019, the civic curriculum features an interview between Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative; Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s essay on Frederick Douglass; and a poem by Amanda Gorman, the United States’ first National Youth Poet Laureate. Additional contributors include Elizabeth Alexander, Alexandra Bell, Robin Bernstein, LaToya Ruby Frazier, For Freedoms, Doreen St. Félix, Naomi Wadler, Darren Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and Deborah Willis.