16 Beaver ST and Tana Hargest

16 Beaver St is an ever growing art group, in which people are welcomed to join,  mostly tackles with political and social issues like politics, art, and education. They are mostly activists and writers who come together regularly to discuss and raise concerns and questions on such issues. The space holds many different events and activities such as fundraisers, performances, and art auctions. The studio even collaborated with cover girls change 46664 to help bring awareness to AIDS/HIV. 16 Beaver also accepts interns to help manage the programs and events they hold and to help those who join grow intellectually and artistically.

Tana Hargest is a controversial artist who confronts and deals with issues of racism in the modern era. She runs a fictional company  called Bitter Nigger to confront on these issues. She received her masters in fine arts and photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999. Hargest's sales pitch to promote a race free future and uses the internet to promote products that tackle social and racial tensions. Hargest has a concept for a theme park called Negrotopia where people can travel through their own racial history. Its composed of a 3D adventure ride through the middle passage, cotton bales on the Mississippi water ride, and an institute of thinking.

Both 16 Beaver and Tana Hargest bring up and tackle on questions and topics that people would rather not talk about or choose to brush aside and forget about it. They are both activism artists who aren't afraid to discuss and show the public that these sensitive and age old topics still hold prevalence in today's world and still need to be remembered and learned about.

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