Category: Arts

  • Amrita Hepi interview Time Out Sydney 2015-05-24 Dee Jefferson, Arts & Culture Editor Sydney knows – and loves – Amrita for her Hollaback nights and Beyoncé dance classes, but her latest project is far more fierce Amrita Hepi was in the final creative phase of her dance-theatre work Passing, with New Zealand-born dancer and spoken-word…

  • Mixed-Race Mixtape Explores Identity Through Hip-Hop Theater at UCI OC Weekly Fountain Valley, California 2016-05-17 Gabriel San Roman If Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump can tweet a picture of himself eating a taco bowl while declaring “I love Hispanics,” the national discussion around race has gotten soggier than the bottom of his bowl. Thankfully, Andrew…

  • Black Velvet: redefining and celebrating Indigenous Australian women in art The Conversation (US Pilot) 2016-05-08 Sandra Phillips, Lecturer Creative Writing and Literary Studies, School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia *Warning: This article contains graphic language that may upset some readers, while Aboriginal and Torres…

  • How street kids in the Bronx taught me it’s OK to be biracial and gay Fusion 2016-05-18 Terry Blas As a “nerdy, Mexican, gay, Mormon child of the ’80s and ’90s,” cartoonist Terry Blas had trouble figuring out his identity… until an experience in New York taught him a valuable lesson. … Read the entire…

  • Michael Dixon is a California-born artist who teaches as an associate professor at Albion College and was recently awarded studio space in New York through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. His paintings direct us toward controversy, self-reflection, and an appreciation for the value of these experiences.

  • ‘We are Iranians’: Rediscovering the history of African slavery in Iran Middle East Eye 2016-05-09 Jillian D’Amours ST CATHARINES, Canada – Behnaz Mirzai’s students often say her office is like a museum. With shards of ancient pottery recovered from the mountains of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province, colourful vases from Isfahan, and tribal masks from…

  • Cannes: Interracial Marriage Drama ‘Loving’ Throws Hat in Oscar Ring The Hollywood Reporter 2016-05-16 Gregg Kilday Director Jeff Nichols and stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga make a strong first-impression as their new film about the landmark Supreme Court case is unveiled. Loving, writer/director Jeff Nichols’ new film about Richard and Mildred Loving — the…

  • Stranger In The Village – A Visual Essay Phoebe Boswell, Visual Artist 2015-12-15 Artist’s Talk at Bla Stallet Konsthallen, Angered, Gothenburg, Sweden September 2015 The term ‘residency’ is an interesting one to me – it offers a sense of belonging, of being present, resident, which is artificial of course since you are more often than…

  • Artist Turns Racist Flirtations on Tinder Into Compelling Look at Race and Sex The Root 2016-05-13 Demetria Lucas D’Oyley Phoebe Boswell Source: phoebeboswell.com She Matters: Inspired by James Baldwin’s “Stranger in a Village,” Phoebe Boswell was interested in exploring the perceptions of black women in predominantly white spaces. Over the weekend I swung by the…

  • Passing Next Wave Festival 2016 Northcote Town Hall 189 High Street Northcote, Victoria 3070 2016-05-12 Through 2016-05-18, Tuesday-Friday 18:30 AEST, Saturday 15:15 and 18:30 AEST (Local Time) Presented in association with Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy Choreographers/Performers: Amrita Hepi (Bundjalung NSW/Ngāpuhi NZ) and Jahra Wasasala (NZ) Using the notion of racial passing as a catalyst for a…