'HIStory/HERstory: Whose Story?' Exhibit examines voice, stacked decks, hidden stories in art

GLEN ARBOR — For more than a year, Sarah Bearup-Neal, gallery manager at the Glen Arbor Arts Center, has found herself thinking — a lot — about what she calls the crusade to cleanse cultural and educational institutions of policies, curricula, anything that hints of DEI: diversity, equity, and inclusion.

“The effort felt zealous and hyper-righteous,” she says. “It morphed into a federal campaign aimed at devaluing, silencing, and penalizing support for DEI initiatives that sought to right the scales for people who have been historically marginalized.”