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Interdisciplinary Studies faculty and First Year Experience program coordinator Mike Sonksen was featured on-air for KCET鈥檚 radio show, 鈥淪oCal Update鈥� to discuss his article about the group “Vigilant Love.” As Sonksen explains, 鈥淰igilant Love is an inter-spiritual and multi-generational advocacy group of artists, activists, healers, and writers who come together to dismantle systemic Islamophobia, work towards new futures of shared health and safety, and build long-term relationships among Muslim and Japanese American young people. Rooted in deep cross-cultural friendships, the Vigilant Love team perennially presents a model for reciprocal solidarity between groups through the arts.鈥� Listen to the radio interview and

Professor Sonksen is a regular contributor to KCET鈥檚 Artbound culture column. In a recent article, he reviews 12 Southern California public art projects that explore race and marginalized histories. This type of artistic expression, he explains, can 鈥減lay a significant role presenting an alternative and more equitable history.鈥� Sonksen points out how public art like murals are 鈥渘ew monuments rooted in inclusivity that can help right the wrongs of history.鈥� 麻豆传媒集团 professor Dr. Amy Converse concurs. 鈥淢any monuments are intentionally constructed as incarnations of power,鈥� she writes in the article, 鈥渁nd in highlighting the history of the powerful, there are other histories of the marginalized and disenfranchised that get overlooked or forgotten.鈥� Converse is part of a team that will bring public art projects to Woodbury鈥檚 campus.

Sonksen鈥檚 article can also serve as a driving guide to some of the city鈥檚 important public art sites.聽

Last Updated on October 11, 2021.聽