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20220314 Banking While Black

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20220314 - Banking While Black - Tempe

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Robert Fansler, with Rhino Staging, attaches support anchors for the door frame as the 1930s former Richmond, VA, bank furniture is given new life on the Coca-Cola Sun Deck at Sun Devil Stadium, Monday, March 14, 2022. The set will be part of ‘Banking While Black,’ a multimedia interactive physical and virtual art installation created by Paul Rucker. The project blends art and history to tell stories of the Black Wall Streets of Tulsa, Durham, NC, and Richmond, including stories of Black excellence that blossomed in those communities before they were destroyed. The interactive bank experience is enriched with trivia that explores the systemic racism and the economic and physical violence inflicted on Black Americans in the past and present. The physical installation re-creates a walkable open-air bank space, complete with teller booths, deposit tables, marble and slate slabs, brass fittings, chandeliers and carved doors from Rucker’s personal collection of vintage bank components. Guests can interact with the bank by scanning deposit slips at virtual teller windows to test their knowledge and learn stories of individuals and pogroms. The experience runs from March 15 through April 17, though it will be closed on Mondays. Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU News

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Image fully released. Model release on file in Media Relations & Strategic Communications.<br />
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Robert Fansler, with Rhino Staging, attaches support anchors for the door frame as the 1930s former Richmond, VA, bank furniture is given new life on the Coca-Cola Sun Deck at Sun Devil Stadium, Monday, March 14, 2022. The set will be part of ‘Banking While Black,’ a multimedia interactive physical and virtual art installation created by Paul Rucker. The project blends art and history to tell stories of the Black Wall Streets of Tulsa, Durham, NC, and Richmond, including stories of Black excellence that blossomed in those communities before they were destroyed. The interactive bank experience is enriched with trivia that explores the systemic racism and the economic and physical violence inflicted on Black Americans in the past and present. The physical installation re-creates a walkable open-air bank space, complete with teller booths, deposit tables, marble and slate slabs, brass fittings, chandeliers and carved doors from Rucker’s personal collection of vintage bank components. Guests can interact with the bank by scanning deposit slips at virtual teller windows to test their knowledge and learn stories of individuals and pogroms. The experience runs from March 15 through April 17, though it will be closed on Mondays. Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU News