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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and N Scott Momaday
As we trash the planet Jaune Quick to See Smith in her paintings and N Scott Momaday in his books and poetry remind us of it and how to save ourselves.
This entry was posted on May 30, 2019 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Edgar Arceneaux at WaNaWari
WaNaWari is a new cultural center in the Central District. Located at 911 24th avenue on the site of Inye Wokoma’s grandmother’s house, it is “Reclaiming Space for Black Art and Stories.” Four people are collaborating: Inye Wokoma and Elisheba Johnson are African American artists affected by gentrification and displacement . Jill Freidberg and Rachel […]
This entry was posted on May 26, 2019 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Yəhaw̓!
Contemporary Indigenous Art in Seattle’s King Street Station Inaugural Exhibition Prepare to be delighted and overwhelmed! As you enter the huge exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art on view at the new art space ARTS at King Street Station, the first work you see is an accumulation of objects hanging over the front desk by Catherine […]
This entry was posted on May 7, 2019 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Inye Wokoma’s Amazing “Turning the Earth” at Liberty Bank Building
Inye Wokoma’s four mixed media art works inside the Liberty Bank Building lobby will be visible only to those who live there. So I am taking this opportunity to introduce these four intricate art works. Inye gave me an overview of their significance. The wall on which they are installed has two sides. On the […]
This entry was posted on May 7, 2019 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Art and Regeneration at the Liberty Bank Building in the Central District
As we approach the new Liberty Bank Building on Union we can see from a block away that it is special. Its bold white with orange and brown accents stands high above surrounding buildings, a dramatic contrast to the innocuous developments on two corners of 23rd and Union, what was once the heart of the […]
This entry was posted on May 3, 2019 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Mary Coss’s “Groundswell” Tells About Salination and Climate Change
During a recent residency, Mary Coss was growing barnacles on Willapa Bay, the second largest estuary in the United States (over 260 square miles!) The artist described the process to me in detail: first she coated a wire mesh with cement snags to attract the barnacles, then dragged it over an […]
This entry was posted on March 23, 2019 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Elizabeth Gaskell and the politics of workers and women in the 19th century
Elizabeth Gaskell, Victorian novelist, advocate for women and the working class, a treat to read.
This entry was posted on February 2, 2019 and is filed under Uncategorized, Victorian fiction, Women Artists. -
Martin Luther King Day 2019
Martin Luther King said it all “A Nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military deense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” As our government shutdown was going on and on, and ordinary dedicated Federal employees Americans were standing in line at food banks, the […]
This entry was posted on January 28, 2019 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Jack Whitten’s Odyssey: A New Perspective
Jack Whitten made his name as an abstract painter in New York City beginning in the 1970’s and had a solo exhibition in 1974 at the Whitney Museum! During the 1960s and 1970s in New York City he was friends with musicians, poets, writers, and other artists. […]
This entry was posted on November 3, 2018 and is filed under African American fiction, African American history, Uncategorized. -
Charles White: Humanist
The huge mural by Charles White, “5 great American Negroes” overwhelms us before we even enter the Charles White retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In this first mural Charles White created for the government sponsored WPA mural program, Sojourner Truth leads a march of freed slaves […]
This entry was posted on October 29, 2018 and is filed under African American history, American Art, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
World War I America at the Museum of History and Industry and some personal history
As we approach the hundredth anniversary of Armistice Day for World War I on November 11, over very own Museum of History and Industry is hosting the only exhibition on that subject on the entire West Coast. Armistice Day began as a protest against the horrors of war. It has evolved into […]
This entry was posted on September 25, 2018 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Carletta Carrington Wilson’s “letter to a laundress”
Carletta Carrington Wilson addresses her “letter to a laundress” to her great great grandmother, but her profound photo/poem installation currently on view at the Kittredge Gallery in Tacoma (only until September 29) honors the work of all those who, in her words, “took in wash.” She found photographs of anonymous […]
This entry was posted on September 7, 2018 and is filed under African American fiction, African American history, American Art, Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Civil War, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Three inclusive events in Seattle give me hope
The first event was the 55th anniversary of the March on Washington sponsored by Mt Zion Baptist Church, the oldest African American church in Seattle and a pioneer of Civil Rights Leadership under the Reverend Samuel B McKinney. Here you see our new police chief Carmen Best marching with […]
This entry was posted on September 4, 2018 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Indigenous Artists and Contemporary Environmental Issues Part II
The despoliation of Indigenous reservations through fossil fuel extraction, pipe lines, uranium mining, and many other disastrous environmental policies, is a subject of the work of several prominent Indigenous artists. Currently on view is the work of John Feodorov in the exhibition “In Red Ink,” curated by RYAN! Feddersen at the Museum of Northwest Art, […]
This entry was posted on August 25, 2018 and is filed under ecology, indians, Indigenous activism, Indigenous Art, Uncategorized. -
Indigenous Artists and Contemporary Environmental Issues Part I
Breaking News Indigenous protests win Victory over Pipeline August 30 2018 We cried every day as we followed the tragedy of the Orca mother Tahlequah holding her dead baby for 17 days. The pod she belongs to has not had a successful birth in several years, this baby died immediately after it was born. […]
This entry was posted on August 24, 2018 and is filed under ecology, First Nations Art, Uncategorized. -
The stunning Olympic Peninsula with brief visits to three Native American tribal cultural events
Oh how fortunate we are in the Northwest to have the Olympic Peninsula! It is magnificent in mid July. We just completed a wonderful trip there, two nights at a cabin on Neah Bay. We did the short walk to Cape Flattery, the furthest West point in US and two nights camping at […]
This entry was posted on July 26, 2018 and is filed under indians, Indigenous activism, Indigenous Art, Uncategorized. -
Protesting Detention for Activist Leaders, Asylum Seekers, and ICE victims
Last week was a big week for protest, but we are just beginning! We have to keep on, keeping on. Immigration as we are all focusing on, is the foundation of our country. On the eve of this 4th of July, I want to speak of some of the powerful support that immigration […]
This entry was posted on July 6, 2018 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Gentrification in the Central District: A Snapshot
Africatown is the heart of the Central District at 23rd and Union. Activists are trying to keep its identity in the midst of gentrification
This entry was posted on July 2, 2018 and is filed under gentrification central district, Uncategorized. -
Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise
We had the thrill of touring the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise ship on Sunday. I am holding the “Wave of Resistance #stop the pipelines Orca solidarity bracelet they gave us. It has just come back from Antarctica where it took scientists to study the way to create a marine protected area in the midst […]
This entry was posted on June 27, 2018 and is filed under ecology, economic imperialism vs democracy, Uncategorized. -
“In the Fields of Empty Days: Intersections of Past and Present in Iranian Art,”
“In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art” at The Los Angeles County Museum is a show on a crucial topic. Although much of the work is contemporary, note that the title does not say that. Tirafkan’s image speaks volumes of the intersection of past and present that […]
This entry was posted on June 25, 2018 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Iran, Iranian protests, Iranian Women, Uncategorized. -
Art and Politics in films at the Seattle International film Festival
Warrior Women is a gripping documentary about radical activist leader Madonna Thunder Hawk, and her daughter Marcy Gilbert. Thunder Hawk ran a school for youth that educated them about Native History in the early days of the Civil Rights movement. Thunder Hawk’s own story spans from the era of native boarding schools that stripped indigenous […]
This entry was posted on June 19, 2018 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Bearing Witness to Migration Nightmares
As we all follow the horrifying details of the administration policy of forcibly removing children from their parents, I am posting this essay to suggest one way forward, we in the creative community must continue to make visible the nightmares of what is happening to immigrants forced from their homes by violence, gang […]
This entry was posted on May 10, 2018 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
William Kentridge “Triumphs and Laments” in Boston
William Kentridge’s “Triumphs and Laments,” in an exhibition in Boston based on his 2016 giant procession and reverse graffiti along the Tiber in Rome.
This entry was posted on May 3, 2018 and is filed under "the Kentridge moment", "War and the Body", "War Experience Project" Handspring Puppets, Contemporary Art, Culture and Human rights, Uncategorized. -
In the belly of the beast
This week Henry and I went to visit my dear friend Tim Detweiller who now works at Amazon!! He runs a creative art program there. and being Tim, he is full of ideas and innovation, penetrating the Amazon behemoth with creative classes offered to employees for free. But first let me set the stage. This […]
This entry was posted on April 1, 2018 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Dmitri Prigov 1940 – 2007 Theater of Revolutionary Action
Dmitri Prigov, avant garde conceptual artist, in an exhibition in London.
This entry was posted on February 1, 2018 and is filed under Conceptual Art, Feminism, Uncategorized.
