Brooke Knepp-Final Blog

On December 7th, I attended the artist talk by Marcy Geyer. She is a printmaking alumni who graduated last spring. Marcy focuses her work in printmaking on gay rights and discrimination, which I believe is a very strong topic that a lot of people tend to ignore. Marcy said that, "You discriminate even when you don't think you are." That statement is true on many levels and it is a little disturbing that what happens around us is so second nature that we don't even realize it.

Another strong topic Marcy talked about had to do with marriage laws and dealing with gay/straight marriages. She brought up a really good point about how you would feel if people were attacking or restricting your straight marriage, since it seems to be such a big deal for gays to get married. People don't want to accept people who are different so their way of reacting is by discriminating. Because of the harsh behavior of straights toward gays, there have been more than enough crimes and even deaths as a result. This is not something that should be taken lightly and I am very glad that Marcy takes this subject into deep consideration with her artwork. I enjoyed hearing her speak and seeing the different kinds of work that she has done with printmaking.