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An artist from this country made a video of a blue, alien figure facing desks in a mock seminar. After sexual assault allegations, museums in this country canceled shows for Archeology of Silence, focusing on fallen figures. Applying one casein tempera color at a time, an artist from this country painted a man in blue standing (-5[1])in an X to block a train entrance and girls at a blackboard writing 2, 3, and 4. In that series from this country, brown lattices frame (*) three doorways as a crowd passes through. An artist from this country opened his Death and Disaster series with a photo of a uniformed man holding a baton and a dog attacking a protestor. That artist from this country also made silkscreen prints of celebrities. For 10 points, name this home country of Kehinde Wiley, Jacob Lawrence, and Andy Warhol. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: United States [or United States of America or US or USA] (The first line refers to American Artist’s I’m Blue (If I Was █████ I Would Die). Allegations against Wiley canceled shows for Archeology of Silence, which focuses on subjects lying down in a response to police brutality. Jacob Lawrence’s Migration series depicts the mass arrest of migrants to make it difficult for them to leave. Warhol used Charles Moore’s photographs from the Birmingham Race Riot in his Death and Disaster series.)
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Arjun KalaIllinois BlueChicago A55-5
John MarvinChicago AIllinois Blue14210

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