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Working With Intention

Adelina Anthony in conversation with Marisa Becerra and nancy Chargualaf martin Feature Photo Caption: Yoli (Rosa Barron) and her mother (Karla Legaspy) share a tense moment in their fraught relationship. Photo credit: nancy Chargualaf martin ******************************************************* Last summer, Marisa Becerra and I endeavored to establish a small progressive indep…

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Revisiting "The Multicultural Paradigm" (24 years later)

A lot of things have happened in the intervening years since 1989 when the always brilliant and  idiosyncratic  Guillermo Gómez-Peña (widely known as GGP) published "an open letter to the national arts community" under the heading "The Multicultural Paradigm." The opening lines read: "It's 1989 in this troubled continent accidentally called America. A major paradigm shift is taking…

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Cucalorus Film Festival: Traveling Circus, Social Change Agent & Artists Retreat

I recently had the great pleasure of traveling to Wilmington, NC to experience the Cucalorus Film Festival for the first time. Started in 1994 by the filmmaking collective, Twinkle Doom, and led today by Dan Brawley and his band of merry artists, this annual event is unique in the field of film festivals. [caption id="attachment_1334" align="aligncenter" width="447"] Cucalorus Executive…

By Shannon Turner - January 5, 2013
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ACA Receives Recognition

Arts in a Changing America is gaining recognition in the art world. A big thank you to Createquity for recognizing Roberto Bedoya's article as a "Big Idea!"

By Bianca Williams - December 16, 2012
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Miguel Luciano’s DREAMer Kites

Caption:  Artist Miguel Luciano and DREAMers (undocumented youths) launching DREAMer Lizbeth’s kite on November 4, 2012 in front of the Washington Monument and White House on the National Mall in Washington DC. (all images courtesy of the artist unless noted) ******************************************************************** INTRO If art is about showing us new visions of what is…

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Some Thoughts About Artist-Driven Spaces ("Culture is the Big Mama")

Our good friends at LINC (Leveraging Investments in Creativity) have partnered with the extraordinary researcher (and also friend to this site) Maria Rosario Jackson (formerly with Urban Institute) to publish a new monograph called "Developing Artists-Driven Spaces in Marginalized Communities: Reflections and Implications for the Field." I received a hard copy last week and was excited …