Art of the Week: Gone, But Glowing — Isabella Kirkland’s Love Letters to the Species of Our Time and Those Passed
Gone by Isabella Kirkland. The sixty-three species painted in GONE have all become extinct since the mid 1800’s and the colonization of the New World. Click on this link and …
Inspiration: How an Afro-Latino Civil and Environmental Engineer Is Transforming Our World
PhD-candidate Ymbar I. Polanco Pino, an Afro-Latino Engineer, seeks to build a new world of love, faith and sustainability: “Stay true to yourself, stay disruptive, and don’t be afraid to …
Art of the Week: Reclaiming Black Beauty – Kerry James Marshall’s Fight Against Misrepresentation
As we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, we’re highlighting the artwork of a fellow Black visionary, Kerry James Marshall, with his poignant mourning of the loss of iconic …
Art of the Week: Wisdom that Digs Deep — Danusha Lameris’ Feeding the Worms
Left: Painting of worms by Melissa DeSa, painted with senna, avocado. cabbage, palm, charcoal, black walnut, plantain, marigold, beets and cochineal. Credit: Melissa DeSa Right: Poet and essayist Danusha Laméris. …
Art of the Week: Rebecca Lee Kunz’s Sky Vault Descent Draws Upon Her Roots and Cherokee Creation Story
We feel it’s important to honor Indigenous world views as part of our celebration of Earth Day. In Sky Vault Descent, Kunz reacts to the Cherokee creation myth (as excerpted …
Art of the Week: The provocative, poignant call for peace in Taking Sides by Rabbi Irwin Keller
Image credit: Melissa Koby Taking SidesBy Rabbi Irwin Keller Today I am taking sides. I am taking the side of Peace. Peace, which I will not abandon even when its …