Artist and educator Blu Murphy empowers her students to see themselves as art. Her work, including the “REDLINE,” “LE DRIP,” and “FEEL” series, is designed to strengthen communities and inspire students to embrace themselves. Most notably, her work in the Redline series combines photography, textures, and red fabrics across subjects’ eyes to symbolize the binding educational trap of “redlining” in low-income minority communities.

This story was produced by Charlotte Matthias, Shane Mukasa and Yohanna Seife, with support from Rawan Elbaba and Justin Rhodes.

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