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Meet Caro Arévalo, a Sustainable Artist Inspired by the Jungles of Peru

Barbara Calderón — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:49:09 +0000

In this video for Open Estudios, artist Caro Arévalo talks to us about being inspired by the jungles of Peru and why remaining present is so important. Arévalo’s meticulous paintings tell a story about the interconnectedness of life through depictions of plants, animals and organic forms. Though our environment is in peril, she remains positive

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Meet Jovan, the Graphic Artist Materializing Worlds Where All People Can Be Free

Barbara Calderón — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:14:47 +0000

Jovan is a graphic artist who is materializing worlds where all bodies can feel acknowledged and ultimately free. Jovan is well known as a DJ and nightlife organizer who throws a queer perreo party called Mami Slut in CDMX. But, for this episode of Open Estudios, we focus on the fantastical paintings, illustrations and imagery

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This Experimental Photographer is Re-Imagining Visibility in the Art World

Barbara Calderón — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:40:00 +0000

In this episode of Open Estudios, we talk to experimental photographer Irene Antonia Diane Reece who recently moved back to her hometown of Houston, Texas after graduating with an MFA from the Paris College of Art. Reece’s work lives at the intersection of archival and contemporary photography, ritualistic installation and historical research. Combining images and

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Art Gallery: 40 Emerging, Texas-based Artists to Know

Barbara Calderón — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 01:55:45 +0000

Despite a lineage of Tejanos’ fruitful contributions to art history and a new wave of exciting talent, Texas artists don’t get much limelight in the national art world. But this critique of exclusion is not new. “If Americana was ‘sensed’ through blue eyes, now ‘Brown Vision’ is demanding equal views—polychrome instead of monochrome,” Tejano artist

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Willy Chavarria’s Fashion Is Political, Unconventional and Places POC at the Forefront

Barbara Calderón — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 22:20:17 +0000

At this year’s New York Fashion Week: Men’s, Willy Chavarria’s black and brown models with eyes red and swollen cried on the runway. Foreboding instrumentals set the tone for a presentation titled Believers, where model after brown model – cloaked in takes on classic uniforms of the street – showed us a vulnerability not often paired

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Meet Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, the Mexican Designer Smashing Symbols of Masculinity With Her Menswear Line

Barbara Calderón — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 23:27:24 +0000

Striding to the front of the runway with a hammer in hand, a model shattered a plaster phallus jutting from a jock strap. With that, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane opened her second presentation titled Artesanal Sex Shop at this year’s New York Fashion Week: Men’s. But if you’ve followed Sanchez-Kane’s career, you know it isn’t out of

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Meet Julia Arredondo, the Tejana Artist Running an Online Bodega Inspired by Modern Curanderismo

Barbara Calderón — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 22:27:41 +0000

Between encouraging you to “Read. Fight. Fuck.” and to “Support Your Local Botánica” and to use love amulet pins that come in “colors of the vulvic rainbow” and contain real pubic hair, Julia Arredondo is about to become your favorite art hustler. The Tejana artist is the founder of Curandera Press and Vice Versa Press

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Despite Trump’s Proposed Budget Cuts, Cool Culture Fights to Provide POCs Access to NYC Museums

Barbara Calderón — Mon, 22 May 2017 23:19:45 +0000

On May 13, the Queens Museum was bursting with young families making feather amulets, dancing experimental hip-hop, and crafting their own instruments using Play-Doh and cables. It was the Catch the Cool family festival, an annual event where a host of arts-related activities and workshops are provided for free to families across New York City. “It’s really

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Don’t Blame Independent Creators for “Selling Out” When It’s Their Only Option

Barbara Calderón — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:07:41 +0000

Goth Shakira is the Latinx mememaker all your woke faves are following on Instagram. The Montreal resident – and self-anointed High Priestess of Dank Memery – has amassed a devoted following for her intersectional feminist commentary, which she packages in meme formats that often reference celebrities like JLo and Selena Gomez. Taken altogether, the images are part of a

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7 Latinx Artists Bringing Diversity to the 2017 Whitney Biennial

Barbara Calderón — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 23:08:17 +0000

In the past, the Whitney Biennial – a contemporary survey of American art – has been critiqued for being too male, too white, and disconnected in terms of race and class. This year’s exhibition opened to the public this weekend, with almost 10 of the 63 artists featured representing the Latinx community. While this number doesn’t

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