Photo: Emma Quintana
An arts professor of the private University of Tampa in Florida says she has been targeted by campus conservatives for a work she produced for an annual faculty exhibition that addresses the rise of white nationalism under former US President Donald Trump’s term in office.
Emma Quintana, who teaches a digital fabrication class at the university, says she created the installation White America: Supremacy, Nationalism and Patriotism (2020)—which conjoins the words “nationalism” and “patriotism” on a pedestal planted atop an American flag—to show how the “collective representation of the US has been debased by white nationalists”, she says.
The decision to place the work on an American flag, which as a sign of respect is never meant to touch the ground, is a criticism of the far-right’s appropriation of the symbol for their divisive rhetoric, Quintana adds.
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