Black sun is a collective of artists generating new images of blackness. based on their own stories and denouncing those handed out by mainstream media. Black sun collective is after regaining our freedom of sight by producing positive images of Black family, Black community and Black peace of mind. They are using theater to leave their live impressions on the city of Portland and make change in the way their circles.
writer, dancer, performer, artist, poet. one of the creators of House of Aquarius, a performance collective that creates original and beautiful healing dance work. she has danced and collaborated with local artists like Chanti Darling, Wine and Coffee, Blossom, Miracles Club and is now working as a choreographer for The Last Artful Dodgr.
Akela has focused much of the last decade on building her image and connections through dance. now she is switching gears and writing as a way to get her messages out faster, more clearly and to a different array of audiences. she will always be loyal to dance first, but the world seems to be calling her to all mediums of important work.
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The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts is pleased to announce that in 2017, esteemed curator of contemporary craft Gail M. Brown will bring The Evocative Garden, an international juried and invitational exhibition exploring natural and cultivated worlds to Disjecta. Invited artists include Megan Bogonovich, Jess Riva Cooper, Kim Dickey, Linda Sormin and Dirk Staschke.
A breadth of implied and articulated dramas will be staged as a personally defined natural landscape or more formalized garden scenario. In works of ceramic sculpture, installation, object and vessel format, each participant will offer a new or recent work- some potent objects as-metaphors, with sub-text and, others as choreographed scenes with figuration or the figure/s implied in a verdant location, in vocabularies from nuanced realism to personal symbolism.
Each will be designed to reference an array of issues- nature’s fragility and sustainability, the wild and the tame, life’s appetites and dilemmas, conflict and resolution, the everlasting and the temporal- social and historic events, of the natural world and the human condition. Artists remind us that nature and the articulated garden, as context, stimulation and tactile allure, is a seductive, universal, ever present enticement.
The Evocative Garden at Disjecta
March 4 – April 1 2017
Opening Reception: March 23, 6pm – 9pm
Gallery Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12pm-5pm
+Wednesday March 22nd – Saturday March 26th, 10am-5pm
Shout out to the Last Artful Dodgr
Check out her latest release Bone Music
- KBOO