Public Art - Coffee Cup Col 'Education'

"To visually express the oppression of African Americans within educational institutions, I utilized pencils to represent the universal tool for knowledge. I conveyed anger; frustration and pain by having the pencils aggressively penetrate the cup. On the saucer, words are written to represent the progression of civil rights and the reachable ideals of optimism, resolution and justice." Artist Gregory Colleton "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to success." - Booker T. Washington