Morgan Nitz chats with friend and fellow Tyler alum Patricia Renee Thomas. As both a working painter and a teaching artist, Thomas is blazing a trail for young black women in the visual arts.
Read MoreNew Artblog contributor John Morrison fills us in on “Dreams, Diaspora and Destiny,” an Augmented Reality mural in Malcolm X Park created by Oakland-based painter and illustrator Joshua Mays and hometown hero, DJ King Britt.
Read MoreArtblog’s intrepid advisor, Beth Heinly, gets a question referring back to a previous Advice Column dealing with memes. Here, Beth finds a new unique way to deal with the thorny issue of whether memes are art, and if so, what is art anyway? And what is a meme? A very good read for our digital age. Have a question about the Art Life for Ask Artblog? Email ask@theartblog.org. Or submit a Google form with your question. There’s a link to the Google form at the bottom of the post below. All names kept anonymous.
Read MoreArtblog’s resident bard, Levi Bentley, speaks with organizer Boston Gordon about their ongoing reading series for queer and trans poets, You Can’t Kill a Poet. Inspired by a queer youth group that provided refuge for Boston during their high school years, You Can’t Kill a Poet has provided a regular outlet for a variety of queer voices since 2014. Catch up with Boston and their ever-changing roster of poets at the next reading, Tuesday February 12, at Tattooed Mom.
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