Exhibit gives Nisei soldiers the respect they deserve

A new exhibit honoring Nisei soldiers could be coming to a museum near you. I Am An American: The Nisei Soldier Experience is a traveling exhibition telling the storied history […] The post Exhibit gives Nisei soldiers the respect they deserve appeared first on AsAmNews.

A Carbon Diet: Five erasure poems

Nat Geo subsists in the same membrane as many other legacy publications by appealing to affluent and upper-middle-class neoliberals while never challenging their carbon-intensive lifestyles that are antithetical to what a bona fide conservationist magazine would endorse. Read more via Scalawag: A Carbon Diet: Five Erasure Poems.

Cullen Washington Jr.:  The gravity of painting the sublime

Creative freedom as a form of resistance This week we welcome Cullen Washington Jr., an African American abstract painter. A native of Louisiana, he lives and works in Queens.  Washington was the inaugural recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, and was awarded both a grant and a…

How Aristotle Jones became the ‘Appalachian Soul Man’

Aristotle Jones learned Appalachian Soul music porch-pickin’ with his grandfather Robert Jones. The elder Jones didn’t play Bill Monroe or Carter Family Appalachian music. He played Black Appalachian music informed by the South, by gospel, by Delta blues. Read more via Scalawag: How Aristotle Jones Became the ‘Appalachian Soul Man’.

Richard Meyer:  A Sea of Humanity

A painter’s quest to bridge the material and spiritual This week we welcome Richard Meyer, a figurative painter based in Queens. Meyer’s work is rooted in the tradition of social realism, and New York City’s multicultural landscape is the source of his inspiration.  Advent (2025) oil on linen panel, 24” x 18” His works are…

This fashion designer’s creations have graced the Oscars and a reenactment of Frederick Douglass’s wedding 

On a Thursday in February, Cassandra Bromfield is leading the women of the St. Albans branch of the Queens Public Library through a workshop on “100 years of Black Fashion.” She is part of that history.  Her tools are Wikipedia printouts about the likes of Harlem’s Dapper Dan and Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (who made Mary…

Janet Morgan: Natural Mystic Flowing

Connecting the rhythms of the land and the subtle bodies This week we welcome Janet Morgan, whose art practice spans painting, public art, dance, environmental work, curation and children’s books. Among the themes of her painting are newly created deities, Body Temples, Wild Women, musicians and dancers. Morgan has painted and taught all over the…

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