Event Details

As part of the Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion's Diversity Summit held on September 14, 2022, Georgia Tech Arts worked with Sohe Solutions to bring local Atlanta artist Charity "Cake" Hamidullah and art therapist Deanna Barton to collaborate with Summit participants in a creative reflection entitled The Humble Chair.

In the words of its developers, Barton and Zachary Van Den Berg, The Humble Chair encourages conversations about DEI across personal, interpersonal, and institutional levels and centers the identity, intersectionality, social location, and lived experiences of the individuals gathered around the table.

Throughout the Summit, participants were invited to create the structural elements of a chair that represented their social location and lived experiences, and to share their chair with someone whose identity/intersectionality, position(s) of power, or privilege differed from theirs. Each participant then offered their chair to become a part of the collage, arranged around the Georgia Tech table that is installed in the Richards Gallery in the lobby of the Ferst Center for the Arts.