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Lulan Mae Blocton moved from Michigan to a loft near Cooper Union in 1972. From her first entry into the art world,nBlocton has been fighting for acceptance and visibility of the LGBTQ community and the Black and feminist communities. As she remarks: There have been two constants in my life: a love of art formal, precise, abstract and a concern for human dignity and civil rights. Like many Black abstractionists, Blocton was criticized for eschewing figuration, for not painting scenes contributing to the political conversation. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Indeed, she claimed abstraction as a right, not the preserve of a privileged few. For her, thoughts about color were as concrete as they were political, personal, and spiritual. In time, Blocton would propose that colors, black, white, and beyond?the entire light spectrum could evoke, metaphorically, the palette for an inclusive society.