The exhibit ‘bi-racial’ opens at the Civil Rights Heritage Center

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The exhibition “bi-racial,” a solo show by local artist Arianna Peak, opens Jan. 26 and continues through Feb. 28, 2023, at Indiana University South Bend’s Civil Rights Heritage Center, 1040 W. Washington St. The explores and expresses Peak's own and her friends’ multiple racial identities.
The exhibition “bi-racial,” a solo show by local artist Arianna Peak, opens Jan. 26 and continues through Feb. 28, 2023, at Indiana University South Bend’s Civil Rights Heritage Center, 1040 W. Washington St. The explores and expresses Peak's own and her friends’ multiple racial identities.

SOUTH BEND — The exhibition “bi-racial” opens with a reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26 and continues through Feb. 28 at Indiana University South Bend’s Civil Rights Heritage Center, 1040 W. Washington St.

A solo exhibit by local artist Arianna Peak, “bi-racial” explores and expresses her own and her friends’ multiple racial identities.

In “bi-racial,” Peak recognizes the 33-year gap from 1967’s Loving vs. Virginia U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing interracial marriage to the year 2000, when Alabama became the last state to remove a law banning it — within her lifetime. She seeks through this project to memorialize and celebrate biracial individuals and interracial couples whose existence was marginalized.

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She magnifies people with lighting, atmosphere and compelling poses that allow the viewer to see beauty in a stranger as she shares her own story as well as those of the people in her life in a visual representation of the human condition — universal, yet also very personal.

Peak will talk at the opening.

Arianna Peak explores and expresses hers and her friends’ multiple racial identities in the solo exhibition “bi-racial” at Indiana University South Bend’s Civil Rights Heritage Center from Jan. 26 through Feb. 28, 2023.
Arianna Peak explores and expresses hers and her friends’ multiple racial identities in the solo exhibition “bi-racial” at Indiana University South Bend’s Civil Rights Heritage Center from Jan. 26 through Feb. 28, 2023.

Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Admission is free.

For more information, call 574-307-6135 or visit clas.iusb.edu/centers/civil-rights/index.html.

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