Why Aren’t There More Black and Brown Students Taking Art Classes?

(A Master’s Degree “Issues In Art Education” Mini Research Paper, Illinois State University

All my life, it has been both invisible and glaring to me; I have always been THE ONLY Black student in almost all of my art education classes, from K-12, to earning my BA in Graphic Design at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and now at Illinois State University pursuing my masters in Art Education.

I grew up in the predominately white, upper-middle class Chicago suburb of Glen Ellyn, IL…