page_title: Leslie Barlow
section_title: Loving
hierarchical_section_title: Leslie Barlow / Artwork / Loving
caption_attribution_description: English: This mural was painted by artists Taylan DeJohnette and Maiya Lea Hartman as a part of the Creatives After Curfew program organized by Leslie Barlow, Studio 400, and Public Functionary in response to the killing of Black Americans by police officers. The mural depicts the phrase "Nothing to lose - but our chains - liberation" and Black fists breaking through chains.
context_page_description: Leslie Barlow is an American visual artist in Minneapolis, Minnesota, predominantly focused on paintings that discuss themes of multiculturalism, identity, and family.
context_section_description: Barlow's 2017 body of work, Loving, was created to discuss interracial relationships 50 years after the court case Loving v. Virginia, which was a U.S. Supreme Court case that banned states from prohibiting interracial marriages. Barlow was also attempting to make sense of interracial relationships in the Trump administration.  Barlow's Loving was shown at an exhibition at Public Functionary in Minneapolis in March of 2017. The exhibition features 10 portraits of interracial couples with skin tones are not typically represented in oil portraiture.
  Barlow was chosen among 34 other local artists to create art pieces inspired by the Minnesota Vikings for the opening of the U.S. Bank Stadium, where Barlow created 6 massive portraits of former Vikings players.
caption: A mural was painted by artists Taylan DeJohnette and Maiya Lea Hartman as a part of the Creatives After Curfew program organized by Leslie Barlow, Studio 400, and Public Functionary in response to the killing of Black Americans by police officers.
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