THE OHIO STATE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION HALL OF FAME AWARD 2021

THE OHIO STATE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION HAD SEEN MY ART BEFORE AND LOVED MY AESTHETIC. SO THEY COMMISSIONED ME TO CREATE DIGITAL PORTRAITS OF THERE ODI HALL OF FAME 2021 HONOREES. THERE WERE 11 HONOREES INCLUDED IN THIS CLASS OF HALL OF FAMERS FROM ACROSS DIFFERENT FIELDS OF EXPERTISE.

LISTED BELOW ARE THE 11 HONOREES:

• Cid Wilson

• Claude M. Steele, PhD

• Clotilde D. Bowen

• Curt Moody

• Faye Wattleton

• Frank Hale

• Jesse Owens

• Robert Duncan

• Robert Wright

• Ruth Moore

• William McCulloch

ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS PROJECT WAS A DIGITAL DEDICATION TO THE OSU 34.

A group of Black Student Union members, the OSU 34 were charged with trespassing and other crimes in the aftermath of the takeover of the main administrative building on the Oval on April 26, 1968. While eight members of the group would be expelled by the university, the students' demands that day changed Ohio State forever. In the aftermath of the showdown, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion was created and more Black professors and students of color were welcomed into the university's classrooms.