The Criticality Gallery by Isabel Engel uses visual literacy to facilitate discussions around global issues in a group or classroom setting. Visual Literacy is a process for looking carefully and exploring art on a deeper level. By discussing art observation as a group, I encourage you to go beyond interpretation and to make connections with course themes and concepts, as well as connections to global issues. I foster critical thinking in the general sense, and criticality, or an earnest and insistent necessity. Dr. Gholdy Muhammad (from her book Cultivating Genius) further defined criticality as “the capacity and ability to read, write, think, and speak in ways to understand power and equity in order to understand and promote anti-oppression”. We are at an earnest and insistent necessity to think and speak in ways to understand power and equity, and group art viewing can aid that. Once we notice how people see an image differently, it helps us to understand how we might then interpret it differently, and then also how we might understand the world around us differently because of our unique personal experiences and backgrounds. CG’s process of viewing art is a 4 step process -- See, Think, Connect & Question -- but is cyclical in nature. The more we connect and question a work of art, the more it causes us to continue looking, thinking, and questioning.