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Hank Willis Thomas, Justice (Red), 2021. Mixed media, including U.S. Flags, 39.5 x 71.5 x 2.5 inches. Hank Willis Thomas, We The People, 2025. Mixed media, including decommissioned prison uniforms, 76.5 x 92.5 x 2.5 inches. Currently on view in the Van Every Gallery are two compelling works by artist Hank Willis Thomas: Justice (Red), 2021, and We The People, 2025. The exhibition coincides with the recent installation of Thomas’s outdoor sculpture With These Hands, in front of Cunningham Theatre, creating a powerful campus-wide dialogue. Across these works, Thomas highlights the unfinished struggle for racial equality in the United States,...

On October 23rd, 2025, over 700 hundred people gathered on the Davidson College campus between buildings built from bricks bearing the thumbprints of enslaved laborers for an October ceremony dedicating a new memorial in their honor. With These Hands: A Memorial to the Enslaved and Exploited serves as a place to remember and reflect upon those whose labor helped build the college and serve its students and faculty. With These Hands: A Memorial to the Enslaved and Exploited was created by artist Hank Willis Thomas in conjunction with global architecture firm Perkins&Will. Thomas (b. 1976 Plainfield, NJ) is a conceptual...