Random Nature Episode 2 Ravynn STringfield phd

Episode 2 debuts today and we are in the studio with writer, artist, and university professor, Ravynn Stringfield! Get into it. Learn about her time growing up in Wakefield, VA

Artist Kara Walker is FED UP

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Art Break: Elizabeth Catlett’s Art Legacy

"The granddaughter of former slaves, Catlett was raised in Washington, D.C. Her father died before she was born and her mother held several jobs to raise three children. Refused admission to Carnegie Institute of Technology because of her race, Catlett enrolled at Howard University, where her teachers included artist Loïs Mailou Jones and philosopher Alain Locke. She …

Art Break: Simone Leigh’s method of concealment and visibility

"Through ceramics, Leigh references vernacular visual traditions from the Caribbean, the American South, and the African continent, as well as the Afro Descendant diasporic experience dating from the Middle Passage to the present. Vessels, cowrie shells, and busts are reoccurring forms, each making symbolic reference to the black body." Read the full article by clicking …

ART BREAK: Jessica Rankin’s Mental Maps

"Jessica Rankin’s work might best be described as ‘mental maps’. Working on a sheer fabric called organdie, her images invoke cartography or geographic diagrams. Made from thousands of tiny embroidered stitches, Rankin delineates shapes, boundaries, and contours, interconnecting and locating them with miniscule text. In Hour To Hour, which incorporates 4 gossamer swatches, Rankin’s constellation …

ART BREAK: Julie Mehretu’s In Between Place

Julie Mehretu's practice invites spatial conceptions of visual art. Spatial shifts, connections, and abandonment of rational thinking to produce multilayered masterpieces... JulieMehretu

Art Break: Writer Zadie Smith on the art of Yiadom-Boakye

Beautifully written piece on an intriguing and gifted artist. NewYorker