# Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2020
- Speaker: Titus Kaphar
- Year: 2020
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/titus_kaphar_can_beauty_open_our_hearts_to_difficult_conversations)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

An artwork's color or composition can pull you in -- and put you on the path to having important and difficult conversations, says artist Titus Kaphar. In this stunning talk, he reflects on his artistic evolution and takes us on a tour of his career -- from "The Jerome Project," which draws on religious icons to examine the US criminal justice system, to "From a Tropical Space," a haunting body of work that centers around Black mothers whose children have disappeared. Kaphar also shares the idea behind NXTHVN, an arts incubator and community for young people in his hometown.

## Lectures

1. [Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/titus_kaphar_can_beauty_open_our_hearts_to_difficult_conversations/75ec9197f499), 14 min (TED's player)