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Art Work - “Loving: Elena Rubin” And “Loving: Shoshanna Weinberger”, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

OTHER TONGUES: MIXED-RACE WOMEN SPEAK OUT is an anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first century. Contributions engage, document, and/or explore the experiences of being mixed-race, by placing interraciality as the center, rather than periphery, of analysis.

Exhibition Essay And Retrospective - "Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing", Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Larry Lee. “Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing.” Foundation for Asian American Independent Media 15th Annual Asian American Showcase catalogue. 2010. April 2 - May 30, 2010 Gene Siskel Film Center A retrospective featuring over thirty selected paintings, drawings and textiles (1995-present) from her Refrigerator, Hapa Soap Opera, Loving, Aloha Dreams, and Devon Avenue Sampler series as wellas some early and new works on exhibit for the first time. Kina's art collectively embraces "ikigai" or the Japanese belief of "a sense of life worth living" and reflects her "postcolonial pop aesthetic" as a multiracial Okinawan Jewish artist/educator/scholar living in a South …

Cover Image And Featured Artist - Zeek: A Jewish Journal Of Thought And Culture, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Kina, Laura “Sugar.” ZEEK: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture. Winter 2010. Cover image and p.62-65.

Exhibition Catalogue Essay And Artwork - "Half Yella: Embracing Ethno-Racial Ambiguity", Laura Kina

Laura Kina

"Half Yella: Embracing Ethno-racial Ambiguity" essay and artwork featured in Embracing Ambiguities: Faces of the Future (exhibition catalogue). Cal State Fullerton University, Fullerton Main Art Gallery, 2010.

“Embracing Ambiguity: Faces of the Future,” features artwork by 10 multicultural artists living and working in the United States who are searching for new ways to define identity. Through painting, sculpture, video and mixed media, these artists attempt to answer the question, “What are you?”

The artists are:

Nzuji De Magalhaes, who combines African and American art forms to depict issues of stereotype, myth, ethnicity and politics.

Kip Fulbeck, artist, photographer, filmmaker and …

Inside Out: Representations Of Women And Work On Popular Television, Liz Linden, Jen Kennedy

Liz Linden

Inside Out: Pregnant Actresses Playing Nonpregnant Characters, a video montage by artist Liz Linden, was originally exhibited in combination with the video Outside In : Fictional Commercials for Real Products at Art in General in New York in Hay 2009. Both videos use appropriated television clips to point to the formal and ideological mechanisms ~that structure our relationship to materials and content that we are confronted with on an almost daily basis, but which are often overlooked or dismissed as benign or banal. Displayed side-by-side on TV monitors, a reference to the videos' source material, together Inside Out and Outside …

Green Zone, Kate Walker

Kate Walker

Hoop, Kate Walker

Kate Walker

The Watch, Kate Walker

Kate Walker

Art Series - Sugar, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Set during the 1920’s-1940’s, Laura Kina’s SUGAR paintings (2010-present) recall obake ghost stories and feature Japanese and Okinawan picture brides turned machete carrying sugar cane plantation field laborers on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kina’s paintings take us into a beautiful yet grueling world of manual labor, cane field fires and flumes. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/sugar.html

Examples Of Art Work, Caroline Earley

Caroline Earley

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'Into The Desert Light: Early El Paso Art 1850-1960' Exhibit Catalog, Anne M. Giangiulio

Anne M. Giangiulio

Excerpt from the 135-page, hard cover, cloth-bound exhibition catalog I designed for the El Paso Museum of Art. 4.6 MB.

'Into The Desert Light: Early El Paso Art 1850–1960' Exhibition Catalog, Anne M. Giangiulio

Anne M. Giangiulio

Excerpt from the 135-page, hard cover, cloth-bound exhibition catalog I designed for the El Paso Museum of Art. 4.6 MB.

Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush, Anne M. Giangiulio

Anne M. Giangiulio

Excerpt from the graphic novel I designed, 'Mr. Mendoza’s Paintbrush' by Luis Alberto Urrea, published by Cinco Puntos Press in collaboration with Brooklyn illustrator Christopher Cardinale. Please be patient when downloading as file is 1.8 MB.

Posters Protesting Drug Violence In Juárez, México, Anne M. Giangiulio

Anne M. Giangiulio

I designed the posters 'Juárez: Once a City, Now Statistics' and 'Stop the Violence in Juárez' originally for 'Peace of Art: Design for Change' (www.peaceofartshow.org). This exhibit presents posters of social protest designed by professional and student designers to create awareness of the situation of violence in Cd, Juarez. To give a face to the violence and help people understand that the violence changes people’s lives. It is a display of Peace and/or protest on both sides of the border. More importantly, Peace of Art raises funds that will aid Cd. Juarez victims and their families. Both posters were later …

El Paso: The Other Side Of The Mexican Revolution, Anne M. Giangiulio

Anne M. Giangiulio

Designed and helped to install the exhibit 'El Paso: The Other Side of the Mexcian Revolution' on display on display October 1, 2010 to January 10, 2011 at the El Paso Museum of History. This bilingual exhibit's content was created by faculty and students of UTEP's Department of History and coincided with the 2010 100th anniversary of the start of the Mexican Revolution. As a strategic base for revolutionaries and home to the largest ethnic-Mexican population in the United States at the time, the city of El Paso became a major site of cultural production by journalists, writers, businessmen, photographers, …

Das Virtudes Cívicas Clássicas Às Virtudes Pós-Modernas - Dos Tempos E Dos Modos, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Ao mesmo tempo que importa recuperar, na nossa memória e na educação, os grandes exemplos dos virtuosos heróis e sábios da Antiguidade Clássica, que a deseducação tem olvidado, não se pode esquecer que o mundo pós-moderno em que vivemos requer de nós aptidões, virtualidades, posicionamentos diferentes. Não para caminharmos no sentido de todos os demais, mas para respondermos com valor aos reptos do presente. Este artigo procura conciliar, pois, o legado clássico das virtudes cívicas, com algumas propostas inspiradas em autores recentes (como Italo Calvino e Alain Finkielkraut) para o séc. XXI

Direito, Utopia E Insularidade, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Não é por acaso que tantas utopias literárias se localizam ficcionalmente em ilhas. Não é por acaso que as utopias são uma espécie de descrição constitucional sem as amarras dos artigos de um código de direito político. Não é por acaso que as ilhas, parecendo uma prisão, rodeada de mar por todos os lados, são afinal sonhos de onde se pode sair, voando. Não só em sonhos oníricos, mas em sonhos que se podem tornar realidade. Este artigo desenvolve as ligações entre os aspectos literários, políticos e jurídicos das utopias na sua dimensão insular.

Virtude Da Constituição E Virtudes Republicanas, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

A virtude da Constituição é a sua essência e função. E a Constituição tem sempre uma virtude liberal-democrática, apesar de tudo. Conra tudo e contra todos, apesar por vezes mesmo de si própria e das intenções dos seus autores... Depois do “retorno” dos valores à política e ao Direito Constitucional, é a vez da volta das virtudes à discussão, designadamente pela via da ética constitucional ou republicana, de novo na ordem do dia em muitos países. Quais serão, então, as principais virtudes juspolíticas, constitucionais, ou republicanas? O presente artigo intenta também uma proposta de virtudes republicanas concretas para o nosso …

Instituições, Trabalho E Pessoas, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Os especialistas em doenças terminais sabem que ninguém tem saudades, quando abandona a vida, do trabalho que não fez. Tem saudades sim do tempo que não passou com familiares e amigos. A sociedade contemporânea, e algumas instituições "totais" estão a potenciar até ao expoente demencial a exploração e a despersonalização dos trabalhadores, designadamente proletarizando técnicos superiores e técnicos pensantes que, sem ócio criativo, deixarão de criar. É uma crise civilizacional, nada menos.