THE AFRO-AMERICAN HERITAGE BICENTENNIAL COMMEMORATIVE QUILT
Blog by Sheridan Collins and graphics by Caleb Sayan, October 2020 In the late 1960s, race riots had exploded in Portland’s Black community stemming from alleged police brutality and racism. Subsequent police shootings of Black youth increased the animosity. In...
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Community Spotlight Interview With Victoria Wanjuhi
Victoria Wanjuhi’s work provokes her audience to rethink waste and sustainability.
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Community Spotlight Interview With Bonnie Meltzer
Integrating, repairing, and transforming found objects into social commentary has been a major part of Bonnie Meltzer’s fiberart sculptures throughout her career.
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Community Spotlight Interview With Brittany Vega
Brittany Vega draws inspiration from personal collections of such objects and historical documentation to investigate how these things act as symbols for American-ness, and furthermore how they can be misconstrued.
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Community Spotlight Interview With Emily Miller
The Ghost Net Landscape collaborative installations are organized by Emily Miller, a multi-media artist whose work centers on uplifting our human relationship with our ocean and planet.
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Community Spotlight Interview With Lilia Berenice Hernandez Galusha
Lilia Bernice Hernandez Galusha believes our lived experiences teach our bodies how to navigate our surroundings and people around us.
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Community Spotlight Interview With Matt Perez
Matt Perez is a Mexican American figurative sculptor who deals with issues concerning the hypervisibilty minorities experience in places that lack diversity.
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How Do We Repair the Future?
A series of short videos by Caleb Sayan, in which emerging artists Matt Perez, Brittany Vega, Emily Miller, and Lilia Berenice Hernandez Galusha discuss how we repair the future.
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The Magical Jacket
A few years ago, I read Grace Lin’s Where the Mountain Meets the Moon to my young children. It’s a story about a little girl who lives in the Valley of Fruitless Mountain. As its name suggests, the village is cursed with misfortune and barren soil, and...
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Community Spotlight Interview With Fuchsia Lin
Costume designer, textiles artist, and filmmaker Fuchsia Lin invents unearthly garments, mythic universes, and stirring gestural languages in her dance films. After six years of work, her forthcoming film “Future Cosmos Flow” is scheduled for release later this Summer.
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