Book Print Collective Member Project and Emergency Grants

Book Print Collective Member Project and Emergency Grants

The Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective (aka Book/Print Collective) is fundraising for the second iteration of our member project grants and to introduce emergency grants. This fundraiser will allow us to continue supporting the research, artwork, curation, and scholarship of our community.

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Danielle Ranucci's Story "My Name is Marya" Published in J Journal

Danielle Ranucci's Story "My Name is Marya" Published in J Journal

Danielle Ranucci is thrilled to say that her story "My Name is Marya" has just been published in J Journal's Fall 2022 issue!

J Journal is a nationally-recognized literary magazine that publishes fiction and poetry about justice. "My Name is Marya" seeks to shed light on the suffering and humanity of orphans in post-Soviet Kazakhstan.

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Silver medals for Quiet Poems and Four Moods, music by Kim Sherman, Donna Weng Friedman '80, pianist, at the 2022 Global Music Awards

Silver medals for Quiet Poems and Four Moods, music by Kim Sherman, Donna Weng Friedman '80, pianist, at the 2022 Global Music Awards

Thrilled that composer Kim Sherman's Quiet Poems and Four Moods albums won two Silver Medals at this years Global Music Awards for her glorious music! I am truly grateful and honored to be the featured pianist on both of these award-winning albums!!

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Bardo and the Art of Living: A Conversation with Novelist Mohsin Hamid '93

Bardo and the Art of Living: A Conversation with Novelist Mohsin Hamid '93

In the latest in my new Tricycle magazine series, "Between-States: Conversations About Bardo and Life," I talk with Mohsin Hamid '93 about endings and beginnings. "The impulse to deny when change comes is natural," Hamid says. "It isn't wrong in the sense that the change can be quite overwhelming, but it's an impulse that's worth interrogating because I'm not sure it serves us particularly well."

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Wingless and Wet Podcast Launch

Wingless and Wet Podcast Launch

Are you bored of the philistines crowding the water cooler at your corporate workplace? Are you nostalgic for the sweet sound of embittered academics tittering about their non-problems? Well, look no further, because William Keiser '19 and the mononymous Shakthi have bottled their Enneagram Four slumber party at the source to bring you Wingless and Wet, an absurdist comedy podcast. Tune in weekly on Apple Podcasts and Spotify for your weekly dose of intelligent inanity. And, please, leave us a scathing review - we'll dissect it on the pod

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New Interview Series on Bardo and the Art of Living

New Interview Series on Bardo and the Art of Living

Ann Tashi Slater '84 is launching a series with Tricycle magazine called “Between-States: Conversations About Bardo and Life.” The interviews will explore how Tibetan bardo wisdom relates to our everyday existence, illuminating new ways of seeing and living. In the first conversation, Ann talks with author Maud Newton about how uncovering the connection between our past and present can help us find lasting happiness. ANCESTOR TROUBLE: A RECKONING AND A RECONCILIATION, Newton's investigation of America’s fascination with genealogy and her obsession with her own family history, has been named one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker and Esquire. (https://tricycle.org/article/maud-newton/)

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185v76 openings in October and November

185v76 openings in October and November

The 185v76 artists collaborative, soon to be known as PAX, followed up the summer release of its unique 3D online retrospective Visual Arts Program 1976 Faculty Show with its 2022 Fall project exploring the Pop Up concept in the offline world – opening a retail site (Fantasia) in London; a café-to-gallery site conversion (BOX) in New York; a library conversion (Kasper’s Temescal) in Oakland CA; as well as an additional multi-media exhibition in Paris; and a new online gallery generated from Macungie PA.

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Harrison Blackman '17 publishes short story "Falling" in 'Tales from the Deep' anthology from Flying Ketchup Press

Harrison Blackman '17 publishes short story "Falling" in 'Tales from the Deep' anthology from Flying Ketchup Press

Ready for some architectural horror? Harrison Blackman '17's short story "Falling," a fabulist retelling of Frank Lloyd Wright's construction of Fallingwater, reimagines the creation of America's greatest architectural masterpiece as a haunted house story. The story is one of many speculative fiction pieces featured in the 2022 anthology 'Tales from the Deep' from Flying Ketchup Press in Kansas City, Missouri. The book features illustrations from KC-based artist Alex Eickhoff. Purchase the book today on Amazon in paperback or ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1970151277.

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Katy Pinke - Solo Tour Across Europe

Katy Pinke - Solo Tour Across Europe

Katy Pinke '10, multidisciplinary artist and singer-songwriter, is going on a solo tour across Europe with her music, on the heels of opening for Indigo Sparke (Sacred Bones) at Public Records, NY. She's then going to the studio to record her first full-length album. Tour dates can be found on her Instagram profile. She is holding studio visits for sales of her visual art work to support the tour, and she has also started an indiegogo page to fund the tour and recording: https://igg.me/at/katypinkesolo/x/13108349#/ . To see more of her artwork and learn about her practice, visit www.katy-pinke.com.

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Listen To The Land

Listen To The Land

4-song EP of my country songs (music & lyrics):'Listen To The Land" (solo and duet) and "Second Chances" (contemporary solo) and "Second Chances (traditional duet). Available on most music streaming devices: Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, Amazon Music, etc. Recorded at Stormy Cooper Media, Houston TX and featuring Tiffany Baumann and Shay Domann.

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Watch the Short Film "Run"

Watch the Short Film "Run"

The short film was directed by Camille Natta, who came to prominence in the French film industry before moving to Hollywood. This is Natta’s directorial debut as a solo director on a music video, having previously collaborated with French director Erick Zonca on the Golden Bear nominated feature film “Julia” starring Tilda Swinton.

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