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Tag: ancestors

Dark gray screen print of crowd with black text overlaid, reading: Something in me wondered, "What will happen to all the beauty?"
1Glenn Ligon, Untitled (Crowd/The Fire Next Time), 2000. Collection Walker Art Center.
Literature
3-21-2023

on craft, or a disordered logic for resurrection

Chaun Webster
Person with medium skin, white sweater, and glasses leans on kitchen island resting hand on chin, with pie in front of them.
1Tia-Simone Gardner. Photo: Uche Iroegbu.
Moving Image Visual Art
3-10-2023

Mother’s Egg Pie (Now, with Cardamom)

Mecca Bos
Person wearing knit hat and scarf cuts strip of wood with scissors, with in-progress basket on table in front of them.
1April Stone prepares splint for weaving. Photo courtesy the author.
Design Visual Art
3-3-2023

On Learning Something Old

April Stone
Person with medium dark skin and glasses wears lavender sweats and holds baby in lap, with person in armchair in background.
1Grandma and my oldest daughter, Sparta, Illinois, 2001. Photo courtesy the author.
Literature
2-3-2023

Fool’s Gold

Taiyon J Coleman
Hands holding up print with red design and gold seal above.
1Block print created by Peng Wu during one of the Jin Paper Burning events.
Design Visual Art
9-19-2022

Letter to My Father in the Other World Explaining Four Types of U.S. Visas

Peng Wu
Black and white photo of leafless trees, rocks, and single white plastic bag suspended in branches.
1Pao Houa Her, untitled, Mt. Shasta series, 2021-2022. Courtesy the artist and Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis; produced with support from the Walker Art Center.
Visual Art
7-25-2022

Paj Qaum Ntuj / Flowers of the Sky

Kao Kalia Yang
Intricate arcing paint strokes of black, tan, and grey/white swirl around the majority of the canvas, more concentrated near the bottom. The gaps between the strokes are filled with different patters, and form into faces in the lower half of the painting.
1Ta-coumba T. Aiken, The Promise from the series NO WORDS (2020). Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Literature Performing Arts
1-11-2021

Fire Water Word Wind Song

Signe V. Harriday
IMG-7558
1Commarrah Bashar, Occupied Ancestor: Standing Cedars in Early Translight (2020)
Literature Performing Arts
9-7-2020

Elulin

Qamar Yochanan
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