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Radical Printmaking in the Bay Area
The Great Tortialla Conspiracy. Prints on Tortillas. Here they are cooking at the opening. And you can see they are anti war tortillas Christina Empedocles made this amazing tree out of birds. The detail is below Enrico Chagoya wove this rug. THe Electric Works, Collaboration: anti war slot machine Enrique Chagoya If you look hard […]
This entry was posted on February 26, 2010 and is filed under El Salvador disappeared, Print Bytes, Victor Cartagena. -
Black History Month in Seattle II City Hall
This is the sculpture of Roosevelt Lewis who is featured in City Hall with sculptures and paintings in the main lobby. Roosevelt Lewis is a Seattle artist with roots in the Black, Creole, and Cajun people of Louisiana, a place near the Cane River of intensely mixed cultures. This piece is called Do No More […]
This entry was posted on February 21, 2010 and is filed under Barack Obama, Black HIstory Month, Bllack Art, Marita Dingus recycled materials. -
Black History Month in the Seattle Art Scene
The Ethnic Art Gallery in the Seattle Municipal Tower is on the third floor. It exists thanks to the hard work of a group of dedicated city employees. Esther Ervin curated the exhibition for Black History Month called Interpreting the Black Journey Eight Viewpoints. These are two of her works that were not in the […]
This entry was posted on February 20, 2010 and is filed under David Leonard, Eddie Walker, Esther Ervin, Fasika Moges, George Jennings, Seattle Municipal Building Ethnic Art Gallery, Sultan Mohammed, Yadisa Boija. -
Sanctions, Divestment to End the Israeli Occupation
That is eighty year old Judith Kolokoff next to me at what we called an informational demonstration at Trader Joe’s. We are nationwide and internationally joining people who are calling for divestment of Israeli investments and sanctions against Israeli products. Trader Joe’s carries cheese made on a farm that was land taken from Palestinians. It […]
This entry was posted on February 9, 2010 and is filed under Israeli sanctions, Trader Joe protest. -
Liana Badr Eye of the Mirror
This will be a short but heartfelt post about Liana Badr’s The Eye of the Mirror, a book in the Arab Women Writers series. It was published in 1991 and has just appeared in English. Badr spent seven years interviewing survivors of the massacre at the Tal el-Zaater ( or Tal Ezza’tar) Palestinian refugee camp. […]
This entry was posted on February 1, 2010 and is filed under "Eye of the Mirror", Liana Badr.