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New Book: “All the Rage”
All the Rage (Nightboat Books, 2021) is a new collection of poems by Lambda Award winner, Rosamond S. King, “conceptualizing state violence, racism, and the persistence of Black desire, resistance, and joy.”
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All the Rage addresses everyday pleasure as well as the present condition of racism in the United States a time marked both by recurring police violence and intense artistic creativity from a variety of perspectives: being Black, an immigrant, a woman, and queer. At its core dwells “Living in the Abattoir,” a series in which people of color live out their days as both workers and meat. All the Rage simultaneously invokes both anger at ongoing systemic violence and the frivolity of something that is, perhaps temporarily, “trending.”
The Laboratory Series, an ongoing Black-identified artist showcase co-hosted by R.A.C.E. Matters SLO and the Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery, holds its next virtual program with special guest speaker Carlos Martiel, on Thursday, Jan. 28, starting at 5 p.m. This artist talk series is offered via Zoom, and admission to join the meeting is free. Martiel graduated from Havana s National Academy of Fine Arts in 2009 and has worked as a prolific artist since, earning numerous awards, including the Franklin Furnace Fund, Arte Laguna, and a CIFOS Program Award. Martiel s performance art has been showcased in multiple countries, including the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands, La Tertulia Museum in Colombia, MACZUL in Venezuela, the Nitsch Museum in Italy, and several other venues. His works are also included in various private and public collections in the U.S., including in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Perez Art Museum of Miami in Florida.
2020 is the 35th anniversary of the Franklin Furnace Fund. Initiated in 1985 with the support of Jerome Foundation, Franklin Furnace has annually awarded grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York. In the spring of 2008, Franklin Furnace combined the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art