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Artist Blu Murphy’s Redline Series Spotlights Historic Segregation

8/14/2026

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Artist Blu Murphy creates the “Redline Series,” visualizing 1930s red-lining maps to confront historic segregation.
Murphy has taught 15 years at Perry Street Prep, a tuition-free public charter school in Washington, D.C.
She photographs and paints students, urging them to view themselves as “the art” and value their skin and coily hair.

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Story summary

Artist Blu Murphy creates the “Redline Series,” visualizing 1930s red-lining maps to confront historic segregation.
Murphy has taught 15 years at Perry Street Prep, a tuition-free public charter school in Washington, D.C.
She photographs and paints students, urging them to view themselves as “the art” and value their skin and coily hair.