{"id":39804,"date":"2015-02-03T03:18:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T03:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39804"},"modified":"2015-02-03T03:22:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T03:22:30","slug":"brooklyn-is-feature-of-the-week-beth-consetta-rubel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39804","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn is: Feature of the Week [Beth Consetta Rubel]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynartistry.com\/#!beth-2\/c1wkw\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Brooklyn is: Feature of the Week [Beth Consetta Rubel]<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynartistry.com\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Artistry<\/a><br \/>\nBrooklyn, New York<br \/>\n2015-02-02<\/p>\n<p><em>The latest and greatest untouched talent of the borough.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Being a biracial woman from the South we wanted to know what it was like for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethconsettarubel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beth Consetta Rubel<\/a> as an artist. So many things can be triggering for an artists like her. You\u2019d think she would have to battle for both sides, especially now when it seems like racial tension is at an all time high. We spoke with Consetta, one of the illest portraiture painters today, about her experience. Talk about in your face! Beth Consetta Rubel is not the one to hold back especially through her work. Her new series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynartistry.com\/#!Paper%20Bag Test Series\/zoom\/c1wkw\/i0u1y\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Paper Bag Test<\/em><\/a> shows her pride in all of it\u2019s grace.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t already heard about her here\u2019s a little something you should know, her name is Beth Consetta Rubel. She\u2019s an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Austin,_Texas\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a> based visual artist. Raised in the South, Rubel draws upon her personal narrative and mixed-race ancestry to create work deeply rooted in her ethnic heritage. Focusing on painting and drawing in college, she received her BFA from the University of Texas San Antonio. Her recent \u201cPaper Bag Test Series\u201d references historical tests used to ascertain race based on phenotype, addressing contentious political and social issues on race, cultural identity, and class struggle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynartistry.com\/#!beth-2\/c1wkw\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn is: Feature of the Week [Beth Consetta Rubel] Brooklyn Artistry Brooklyn, New York 2015-02-02 The latest and greatest untouched talent of the borough. Being a biracial woman from the South we wanted to know what it was like for Beth Consetta Rubel as an artist. So many things can be triggering for an artists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,125,13743,8,20],"tags":[19249,6675,19250,2711],"class_list":["post-39804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-identitydevelopment","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-beth-consetta-rubel","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-artistry","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}