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Artist Ken Lum and his think tank, Monument Lab, asks what we’re trying to do when we build monuments in public places to historical figures and events
While the global Coronavirus death toll continues to climb each day, some people are beginning to ask: how can we mark the colossal loss of life that has been experienced around the world?
Originally from: Kingston, Jamaica Where and when did you make this work? The images were shot in the summer of 2019 in Kingston, and I assembled the piece in my studio in Chicago throughout 2020. After I take and edit the photos, I send them to a commercial weaver who works them into the tapestry. When it comes back to me, I stiffen the fabric by coating the back with glue and gel. Then, I start décollaging, cutting parts of the tapestry out and determining the initial form. After that, I collage — adding fabrics, embellishments, trims and glitter. Can you describe what is going on in t...
WHYY By An exhibition at the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia, "On the Day They Come Home," features women who have lived through long prison sentences. (Mark Strandquist/People's Paper Co-op) Paulette Carrington says she’s not the same person she was when she was convicted of homicide at age 16. Sentenced to life in prison, Carrington says she could have easily languished and lost all hope of ever reentering society. But two things got her through her time at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institutions at Muncy and Cambridge: her faith and the older women incarcera...
>> Tess Thackara, The New York Times Published: 04 May 2021 12:48 PM BdST Updated: 04 May 2021 12:48 PM BdST Deborah Willis's photographs in "Black Women and Work," installed in one of the parks run by the Village of Arts and Humanities, in Philadelphia, April 28, 2021. In a section of North Philadelphia, near an underpass and up a soaring stoop painted sky blue, Ms. Nandi’s home is decorated with pictures of civil rights heroes and political icons — Malcolm X, Queen Nefertiti, Lenin. Here, for some 20 years, Denise Muhammad, known by everyone as Ms Nandi, and her husband, Khalid, ...