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In the 1983 African American Day Parade Lorraine O’Grady’s float was called Art is… and was known to be "O'Grady's most immediately successful piece" Art is... was an "empty nine-by-fifteen foot-gold-wooden wooden picture frame… O’Grady had [also] hired 15 young Black performers who walked and danced alongside it, carrying smaller golden frames that they held up before members of the crowd.” The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art argued that the event made an impact for the Black community by describing how there were people everywhere shouting things like “That’s right. That’s what art is. We’re the art!” and “Frame me, make me art!”. Although Art is… was performed in 1983, it was referenced in the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden. In an article by Alex Greenberger, he argues that Lorraine O’Grady was “a key inspiration for a video put out by Biden and Kamala Harris… [in which] in the video, [there were] shots of people of various races holding empty picture frames.”