Category Archives: Uncategorized
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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. -
Rural England Survives
Visiting ancient churches in Suffolk, East Anglia was a delightful change from London.
This entry was posted on January 27, 2018 and is filed under Suffolk East Anglia, Uncategorized. -
Migration Then and Now: A European and UK Perspective
Migration from a European perspective including the Migration Museum, London, Arabella Dorman’s installation and Ai Wei Wei’s film human flow
This entry was posted on January 16, 2018 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Migration, Uncategorized. -
Anniversary of Russian Revolution Part III: Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot protest conditions of oppression in Russia and elsewhere.
This entry was posted on December 15, 2017 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Feminism, Russian Performance Art, Uncategorized. -
Anniversary of Russian Revolution Part II: Dostoevsky’s Demons in London
“Nothing and ever was more unbearable for a man and a society than freedom,” Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky’s play “Demons” ( also known as the Possessed) put on in the atmospheric old church , St Leonards, in Spitalfields by the Split Moon Theater company also joined in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Russian […]
This entry was posted on December 10, 2017 and is filed under Russian Revolution, Uncategorized. -
“Red Star Over Russia”
Art and Politics are everywhere in London at the moment. Whether it is the Imperial War Museum’s Art of Terror, the Migration Museum, an entire wing devoted to Art and Society at the Tate Modern, Red Star Over Russia at the Tate Modern, or the audio tour “The Darks” describing the former prison […]
This entry was posted on December 10, 2017 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Hanaa Malallah Part II 2017 Ten Years Later and Thirty Years Ago
Hanaa Malallah major contemporary Iraqi artist has survived leaving her native country in 2006. She has a new show in London which she now considers her home. Her work from the 1990s was sent by a friend from Baghdad, the work that survived the looting of her home after she left.
This entry was posted on October 31, 2017 and is filed under Iraq, Iraq contemporary art in Baghdad, Iraq War, Uncategorized. -
Art and Bombs
August 6 a day to commemorate the most horrifying act of all time, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I am giving you the work of several artists who address these acts from contrasting perspectives as a response to the horrifying comments coming from the President and perhaps for more work to be created on this subject.
This entry was posted on August 10, 2017 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Gail Tremblay, Uncategorized. -
Deborah Faye Lawrence: A Strumpet of Justice tells it like it is
Deboarah Faye Lawrence’s exhibition at the small and appropriately named Bonfire Gallery surrounds us in an intense way with our brilliant flag collage protests.
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Immigration: Hopes Realized, Dreams Derailed The exhibition,the poetry and the music
Immigration: Hopes Realized, Dreams Derailed at the Spaceworks Gallery in Tacoma is an exhibition only one mile from the Northwest Detention Center (until August 17). It is supported by the Washington Arts Commission, Allied Arts Foundation and Humanities Washington
This entry was posted on July 26, 2017 and is filed under Immigration, Uncategorized. -
Zhi LIN: In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads
“Zhi LIN In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads” at the Tacoma Art Museum is a tour de force of research, aesthetics, history, tragedy, and beauty.
This entry was posted on July 7, 2017 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Uncategorized, Western History.
