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The art of quilting
By Rachel Hale
What exactly is considered art? I was challenged to answer that question recently when I was asked to be part of the Gateway Arts Council’s podcast series.
For me art has just always been music, dance, acting and of course painting or drawing. None of these have I ever been talented with, although I do enjoy and appreciate them.
When asked to bring some forms of art from the Senior Center for the podcast I was a bit stumped. We do have some talented artists who have donated their paintings over the years, so that was an easy choice. But then Ellen Keyes said to me, “What about the quilting”? That caught be off guard. I mean, our members have created some beautiful quilts over the years but I never really thought of quilting or knitting as a form of artwork. I had been official “schooled” and at the same time it opened my eyes in a whole new way.
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Sometimes it can feel that the music that comes out of the New Orleans scene is an art of polar extremes extreme jazz, extreme hip hop, extreme zydeco, and so on and so forth. And then your finger hits the pulse of something that just defies categorization, something that a lot of music in our city instantly demands.
When you hear the latest track from Delores Galore (of Sexy Dex and The Fresh fame) titled “Continue?,” their song calls to mind different genres and different musical epochs but their voice paired with slowed down hypnotic beats defies classification.
“I didn’t have a vocal influence for this song, but I do always look up to my father Michael Washington, Whitney Houston, Minnie Riperton, Janet Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Selena, and many many more at random times of creating,” says Galore, otherwise known as Gabrielle Washington. Something spooky and ethereal underlying the track calls to mind the haunting “Resolution” by the late and mystical Aaliyah or t