Featured Artist: Norola Morgan
Welcome the first of our Featured Artists for our March 1st issue, Norola Morgan of MoonYoonits Studios! Norola combines found items and imaginative new creation to make striking art dolls. …
Quote for Today: Terry Pratchett
He thought of the deep crevasses and windy caves of Underlay, and the stories of the creatures that dwelt there. Of course, he didn’t believe in them. He’d told them, …
Quote for Today: Mary Daly
Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women …
Look and Listen #9: Xenobia Bailey’s Aesthetic of Funk
Here are two wonderful videos of Xenobia Bailey, a multi-faceted artist influenced by funk and ethnomusicology. Born Sherilyn Bailey in Seattle, she took the name Xenobia to draw on the …
Look and Listen #6: Mixed Media Artist Jamilla Okubo
Jamilla Okubo talks about using art to tell her story and the story of her culture, from growing up in D.C. to reconnecting with her father’s side of the family …
Look and Listen #4 Indigenous Woodworkers Ned Bear and Justin Sappier from St Mary’s First Nation (New Brunswick, Canada)
This video from the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) takes us to St. Mary’s First Nation in New Brunswick. Ned Bear, who passed away last year, was a master woodworker and …
Quote for Today: Terence McKenna
Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality and that the other 5% would be delivered in the next 18 months, …
Quote for Today: James Rosenquist
Popular culture isn’t a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images …
Quote for Today: Chaim Potok
For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause …
Quote for Today: James Loewen
Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still …