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What’s your artistic practice? I cringe at the inevitable question that floats around whenever art teachers get together. Is it because I’m surprised? (Wait…I’m supposed to have two jobs?!) Is it from ...

The artists in “Friends & Strangers” are connectors, building upon and supporting the existing groups they participate in and searching for ways to create ever more inclusive forms of community.

Christine Sun Kim was born in 1980 in Orange County, California, and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Kim graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2002 before receiving ...

Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous collective of women artist-activists who began working together in 1985. Working across various media, the collective challenges the systems and individuals ...

Hank Willis Thomas was born in 1976 in Plainfield, New Jersey, and currently lives and works in New York City. The artist received his BFA from New York University in 1998 and his MFA from California ...

Working quickly and intuitively in her studio, Rose B. Simpson shapes her clay sculptures by hand using a technique she developed called “slap-slab.” Each of her clay sculptures is embedded with ...

Collecting the dust and detritus from our heads and our homes, Diane Severin Nguyen creates lush photographs and videos that question the divides between trashy and intellectual, organic and fake, ...

Heidi Lau channels personal history, colonial culture, and the spiritual world through her hands and into her otherworldly clay works. Delighting in chance and improvisation, Lau shapes all her clay ...

Azikiwe Mohammed was born in 1982 in New York City, where he lives and works today. In 2004 the artist received his BFA from Bard College. Rejecting the idea that art’s ultimate aim is the expression ...

From his childhood backyard to his grandfather’s grave to Memphis’ famed Elvis Week gatherings, this short documentary film follows Tommy Kha photographing throughout the city, as he tries to ...

Sculptor, performer, and sound healer Guadalupe Maravilla combines his personal experiences as a formerly undocumented immigrant and cancer survivor with ancient and indigenous knowledge to create new ...