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Branch & Bough

“Branch & Bough” is a project that has been in the works for many years. It’s beginnings lie in a seed that was planted many years ago, across the oceans of time and space, in the land that birthed the first … Continue reading

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A Creative Push

  This semester at Columbia College, I took on an Independent Project working with the CreativePush Collective in composing a full-length performance piece to be featured in RhinoFest 2013. CreativePush is run by Jenny Magnus and Sherry Antonini who are both faculty members at Columbia. These two play an … Continue reading

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Elements Of Typographic Style

Musing through Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style… Yes, I know, it doesn’t sound altogether appealing as reading material—there will inevitably be technical mumbo-jumbo, which will only make sense in practical application. However, I found it to be quite poetically … Continue reading

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Cultural Symbiosis

In my Art as Discourse class at Columbia, we read excerpts from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Mina Cheon’s Shamanism + Cyberspace. Frantz Fanon, 1925-1961, was a Martinique-born, Algerian writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary. His writings have been influential in post-colonial studies, Marxism, and … Continue reading

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Lee Bontecou

One of my absolute favorite artists of all time is Lee Bontecou. There are many reasons why I am inspired by and respect her art and career. I am enticed by her experimental use of materials and ways of making. … Continue reading

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ARC Gallery

  This past summer, I was voted in as a member artist of ARC Gallery. ARC is a women’s cooperative gallery that has been in existence since 1973, formed during the women’s movement as an alternative to mainstream galleries and in … Continue reading

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Sankofa

I recently read an excerpt from Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. In this excerpt, he discusses the idea of an “air” in photography, something captured in the image of a face “that exorbitant thing which induces from body to … Continue reading

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Chicago’s Twelve

“Chicago’s Twelve,” featuring artists producing environmental works, is now on exhibit at the Garfield Park Conservatory. The Conservatory is worth a visit just to walk through the gardens or experience the fern room! But with the addition of this “must … Continue reading

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indiegogo

Become an art collector! Support an artist who is currently seeking to feed her muse through the Interdisciplinary Arts MA Program at Columbia College. Short Summary Have you been yearning to be the owner of original artwork? My Myriad Muse … Continue reading

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Caught in the rain without an umbrella

Yesterday, on such a hot, hot day, (103 degrees) I decided to treat myself to an avocado freeze from the smoothie place nearby. I was downtown and had some time to spare before teaching my next yoga class, so I … Continue reading

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