“The last couple of months have been extremely difficult, especially being a Black woman living in the American climate that we’re in,” said Zaire McPhearson, who graduated from Duke’s Master of Fine Arts program in May and is now an instructor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies. Those emotions motivated McPhearson as she designed the digital art piece that was selected by judges to accompany the new “Working Toward Racial Justice” recurring story series that will launch in the Working@Duke magazine in February. View her work and more of the story here.