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Artist Choices: Displayed with a thick frame, one which would resemble museum frames, which creates parallels between royal portraits and this artwork. The piece is also titled 'heavy is the barbed wire crown', which is a play on the saying 'Heavy is the head that wears the crown.'.
Issues Addressed: The impacts of slavery on society, and how it affects the lives of black people even now. The barbed represents the time when black people in America were only slaves and were trapped on estates, unable to escape or gain freedom. Now that they have freedom, the burden of the past still weighs them down and suppresses some of their rights.

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Artist Choices: Making the white man's face barely visible (sense of anonymity), use of black paint on Black man's body, so that his facial features aren't showing (creating a stark contrast between the two men). There are also splashes/droplets on the page, dripping how blood would.
Issues Addressed: White brutality and privilege/superiority (some white people in the US believe that their skin colour makes them superior to POC and are more protected in areas such as the court of law), the way so many black people are killed by white people, that at this point it could be looked upon like a sport of sorts.

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Artists choices: Black man in sunglasses and graduation gown in center of artwork. Background is slogans that are pro-white/anti-black, including slogans against Obama because of his race. In the top left hand corner, the word "no" is placed in capital letters. The artwork has also been bordered.
Issues addressed: Racism against black people, white supremacy.

Also works as an inspirational piece for black people. The graduation gown represents a higher education, where people are believed to better (more educated).

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Artist's choices: Black and white, painted on a sheet of canvas, man in center of artwork, much larger than boats and cargo in background.
Issues addressed: As the black man in the center is much larger and holding on to a rope that is controlling the boats behind him, it indicates power. I think this artwork calls out the misconceptions around who can hold power in terms of race.

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Walker artworks focus primarily on race, and how it shapes our identity. Being a person of colour in America, he has experienced and witnessed prejudice and discrimination again individuals, solely based on external appearance and represents it in his artwork. Some collections depict black people in their everyday lives, showing how their identities are deeper than what is seen at first glance, and challenging racial stereotypes. Other collections show the mistreatment of black people, and how their unique identities are ignored by people in power, like the police. He brings a lot of his personal identity into the works as well as depicting current political situations.

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Walker creates art from the perspective of a coloured man living in America, and so he is able to truly understand and empathise with black people that experience inequality and brutality. He sheds light on these problems and causes his audience to look at things from a new perspective. In this way, Walker stands up and helps battle misperceptions based around black people.

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Dareece J Walker is a visual artist, born in 1989. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. His artwork targets misunderstandings and perceptions based around black people.

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Artist Choices: Used cardboard as base, creates texture. The 'bars' of the jail are made from ripping out pieces to expose the perforated areas and stand out more because it created a 3D texture. There is also a thick black area around the image, create a sense of entrapment.
Issues Addressed: The way black people are unfortunately familiar with jails from such a young age, due to the way that they are unfairly judged. It could also represent a child reaching for their parent through the bars from outside, as the judicial system splits up many families for long periods of time.

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Artist Choices: Cardboard base, ripped out portions (creates a background, so the foreground focus is the captured man), unshaded areas represent bound hands (how he is helpless).
Issues Addressed: Once again, this piece focuses on how black people are criminalised in the US. The person with a gun (cop) is not even is frame, yet they hold all the power with that one tool. The pulled shirt depicts the power dynamic that still exists between white people and black people in America.

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Artists choices: Black and white painting, looks to have been done in ink. Borders of painting have been left white and ink is dripping down the bottom.
Issues addressed: Wrongful conviction or brutality. The child in this photo looks very innocent, yet a gun has been held to his head.

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Artists choices: Realistic looking background and child. Paper with the words "Future of America" layered over it. Fathers face has also been layered/coloured with the newspaper colour.
Issues addressed: Misperceptions of black people. This artwork shows them living their everyday lives and shows they are the same and equal to everyone else.

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Artist Choices: The only colour in the image is their skin colours, drawing emphasis to that. There is an intricate frame around the work which, compared to his other works (with raw rough edges), created a more positive feel. The licence plate has 'BLK' on it, so it is clear he is trying to represent Black people's lives.
Issues Addressed: Aimed to present black people in a more positive light, aside from how they are typically depicted in media. This is a very pleasant image, with a black father enjoying time with his young daughter and is a stark contrast from works from collections like 'Police Cross Lines'.

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Artist Choices: Base medium is cardboard, which is ripped to show texture. The colours used are only shades of black, and the highlights are places without any paint/charcoal.
Issues addressed: Police brutality in America, specifically against black people. The police don't have faces, which depicts how their identities are protected, and they are not held accountable for their actions. The way black people are outnumbered and ganged up on is also shown by the two cops attacking one person.