Quote for Today: Alicia Garza
Diversity is what happens when you have representation of various groups in one place. Representation is what happens when groups that haven’t previously been included, are included. Intersectionality is what …
Quote for Today: Kimberlé Crenshaw
In 1976, Emma DeGraffenreid and several other black women sued General Motors for discrimination, arguing that the company segregated its workforce by race and gender: Blacks did one set …
Featured Artist The Sunflower Kam
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome Kamille Leak, The Sunflower Kam, as the first Featured Artist of our “Flow” issue. Kam embodies the essence of the issue: her works are joyful …
Look and Listen #34: Titus Underwood, Nashville Symphony
Titus Underwood is the Principal Oboe for the Nashville Symphony. You might assume that, as an artist with a highly educated and elite ensemble like a symphony, he wouldn’t encounter …
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: James Fenton
The term ‘epitaph’ itself means ‘something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.’ When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in …
Creative Freedom and Tradition: Controversies of the Wandjina
Creativity and faith sometimes collide in very unpleasant ways. What lies behind this conflict and can it ever be resolved? In the Kimberley area of Australia, indigenous tribes worship the …
Play of Shadows: Two Forms of Asian Shadow Theater and Their Descendants
In much of Asia there is a tradition of shadow theater, also called shadow puppetry or shadow play, an ancient art in which characters are fashioned from leather or paper …