Featured Artist: Jamie McArdle
Synkroniciti is thrilled to introduce writer Jamie McArdle. Her story “Grace,” a love story informed by changing social norms on the early American farm, inspired by a census entry, swept …
Look and Listen #7: The Ayes Have It, Savanah Leaf/Tiana Clark
This beautiful, elegiac short film by Savanah Leaf is a video poem. “The Ayes Have It” was written by Tiana Clark and speaks about being a mixed race woman in …
Look and Listen #5: Leah Anderson, You Ask Me What I Am So You May Know How To Fear Me from Button Poetry
There is a fine line between admiring someone and exploiting them. Leah Anderson explores how it feels to be singled out. “You Ask Me What I Am So You May …
Quote for Today: Elizabeth Acevedo
I’m constantly having to give people geography and history lessons on how my grandmother’s hometown is 65 percent Afro-Puerto Rican, on how the majority of slaves were dropped off …
Dolls from Around the World, part one: Dancing Figures
Ethnic dolls have much to do with memory and the interpretation of the past. They codify values, dress, gender roles, and appropriate occupations for the culture they represent– or at …
Crossing Cultures: The Visions of Ana Serrano and Joe Feddersen
The way we see the world around us influences and shapes our creativity. Those who grow up with exposure to multiple landscapes, cultures and languages have a rich palette from …