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Superb performances coming up at @we.construct.marvels this Friday @anoutrecordings @vivekshraya ✨ #Repost @we.construct.marvels ・・・ This Friday!!! August 3- Vivek Shraya reading with special performance by Anna Vo- 6pm . Please join us for an intimate evening with a reading by Canadian artist, writer and musician Vivek Shraya and musical performance from local performer Anna Vo. Shraya's photo essay titled TRISHA is on view as a part of the exhibition BETWEEN. . . Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work includes several albums, films, and books. Vivek’s 2017 album with Queer Songbook Orchestra, Part-Time Woman, was included in CBC’s Best Canadian Albums of 2017. Her first book of poetry, even this page is white, won a 2017 Publisher Triangle Award and was longlisted for CBC’s Canada Reads. Her debut novel, She of the Mountains, was named one of The Globe and Mail’s Best Books, and her book I’m Afraid of Men will be out in Fall 2018 from Penguin Canada. Vivek has read and performed internationally at shows, festivals and post-secondary institutions. She is one half of the music duo Too Attached and the founder of the publishing imprint VS. Books. . A four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, Vivek was a 2016 Pride Toronto Grand Marshal, and has received honours from the Toronto Arts Foundation and The Writers’ Trust of Canada. Vivek is currently a director on the board of the Tegan & Sara Foundation and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. (at Portland, Oregon)

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If you’re in Cali and love neon art, see this exhibit! #Repost @merylpataky ・・・ Mark your fucking calendars - I'm so pleased to present Roxy Rose |@neogirlneon | as the next "Guest Spot" artist in the windows of Hang Art Gallery |@hangartsf | AUGUST 4TH opening, not to be missed. More about Roxy below. . . . Roxy comes from a long, well-known line of neon fabricators. She made a name for herself and carried her family's business through several successful years before handing ownership over to her daughter. Roxy was well-known in the industry, that is until she transitioned about 10 years ago and then everything changed "I used to get calls every day from people, asking for my advice, my opinion, wanting to work with me. But after I transitioned, people in the industry turned their backs on me. They dropped me like a hot potato. I was kicked out of my business and family. My stuff was brought to the curb, the locks were changed, and passcodes to the alarm system were changed." Following the callous dismissal from the industry, Roxy became determined to prove she was still a relevant figure in the industry who would not be cut out. She has found acceptance among younger generations who view her as someone to be admired, and someone they can learn from. Her astonishing work for SHE BENDS was nothing short of breathtaking. For Roxy, her work is a message about being transgender, while also demonstrating her skill and creativity as a fabricator. Words by @vwi1son for @themidwaygallery

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Excellent installation and text by @tlynnfaz #Repost @tlynnfaz ・・・ Installed at @amplifierart, my #AmericaIsBlack text piece. . . . [IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A photograph of a poster in a windowsill with a white background and the following writing in black: AMERICA IS BLACK.  It has always been. It is a man twirling at 3AM under colorful lights, sweaty and in love with his boyfriend. It thrives with disabilities. It is migrant. It is a tongue that unapologetically only speaks Spanish. It is a self-regulated womb. It is Native. It has been here before any White foot touched its soil. It is traumatized. It is hungry. It is a woman. It has always been. It translates for its parents. It transcends borders. It transcends binaries. It is dodging violence on the streets. From men. From the police. It wears a hoodie. It wears a hijab. It has kinky hair that smells of coconut oil. It is trans. It’s a kiki with friends and nights slept on a park bench. It’s a fist in the air and a fiery demand for justice. It has always been. It prays in a New York City mosque. It prays in a South Carolina church. It is my Black mama and my Persia, immigrant daddy. These are not exceptions. These are not Others. These are not descriptions in contrast to what is normal. This is it. It is here. It has been here. AND IT IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE.”]

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Wise words from @rachel.cargle and art by @jeeheipark. Listen up! #Repost @rachel.cargle ・・・ To those who are demanding I “choose love and light and peace” over my outrage and anger in regard to racism in this country I need you to listen to me: • Love is ensuring the most marginalized receive justice! • Light is ensuring the darkest areas of our society get seen & held accountable for their harmful actions! • Peace is the ability for black people to know that the color of our skin won’t determine our safety, opportunity and livelihood! • With that being said the only way you’ll TRULY be sending me your love and light is through your intentional and tangible solidarity and action. • If my anger towards injustice makes you more uncomfortable than the injustices themselves then you are indeed part of the problem. • Art by: @jeeheipark • Action item: google the term ‘spiritual bypassing’

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Wise words from @rachel.cargle and art by @jeeheipark. Listen up! #Repost @rachel.cargle ・・・ To those who are demanding I “choose love and light and peace” over my outrage and anger in regard to racism in this country I need you to listen to me: • Love is ensuring the most marginalized receive justice! • Light is ensuring the darkest areas of our society get seen & held accountable for their harmful actions! • Peace is the ability for black people to know that the color of our skin won’t determine our safety, opportunity and livelihood! • With that being said the only way you’ll TRULY be sending me your love and light is through your intentional and tangible solidarity and action. • If my anger towards injustice makes you more uncomfortable than the injustices themselves then you are indeed part of the problem. • Art by: @jeeheipark • Action item: google the term ‘spiritual bypassing’ • #manifest #manifestation #raciam #blm #soul #spirit #yoga #crystals #essentialoils #goodvibes #goddess #yoga #retreat #yogaretreat #seattle #nyc #la #daniellelaporte #marieforleo #gabriellebernstein #spiritual #success #lifecoach #bookclub #nyc #lululemon #doterra #wanderlust #gltlove #teachersofinstagram #dogsofinstagram #catsofinstagram

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Listen up. Important words from @rachel.cargle #Repost @rachel.cargle ・・・ To those who are demanding I “choose love and light and peace” over my outrage and anger in regard to racism in this country I need you to listen to me: • Love is ensuring the most marginalized receive justice! • Light is ensuring the darkest areas of our society get seen & held accountable for their harmful actions! • Peace is the ability for black people to know that the color of our skin won’t determine our safety, opportunity and livelihood! • With that being said the only way you’ll TRULY be sending me your love and light is through your intentional and tangible solidarity and action. • If my anger towards injustice makes you more uncomfortable than the injustices themselves then you are indeed part of the problem. • Art by: @jeeheipark • Action item: google the term ‘spiritual bypassing’ • #manifest #manifestation #raciam #blm #soul #spirit #yoga #crystals #essentialoils #goodvibes #goddess #yoga #retreat #yogaretreat #seattle #nyc #la #daniellelaporte #marieforleo #gabriellebernstein #spiritual #success #lifecoach #bookclub #nyc #lululemon #doterra #wanderlust #gltlove #teachersofinstagram #dogsofinstagram #catsofinstagram

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Brilliant work 📷. #Repost @velma.rossa ・・・ still. ‘soul is a silent song’ #soul - #silence / #lamu - #africa

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NEOFOLK

A Group Show Curated by Rachel Rosenkoetter

August 10th - August 30th

Reception Friday August 10th from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Featuring new work by Meagan Boyd, Hannah Epstein, Meghan McAleavy, Maryanne Moodie, Emma Suman and Anna Valdez.

 In an era of ever-accelerating visual turnover, the artists represented in NEOFOLK are slowing down to create their work. Fearless of utilitarianism or decoration, but without relinquishing concept and dialogue, they create images and objects throbbing with vitality and handmade character.

Working with meticulous traditional processes like rug-hooking, embroidery, and weaving, these women embrace old materials to express new ideas. The results are at once naive and virtuosic, everyday and ceremonial, precise and wonky, rigorous and goofy.

As identities become ever more complex and multicultural, what does it mean to create work with a folk ethos? How does contemporary art practice reflect a broader cultural longing for the ritual, the analog, the homespun? NEOFOLK considers these questions and sets out to collapse tired distinctions between self-taught and academically trained, local and global, craftsmanship and conceptualism.

Meagan Boyd

Meagan Boyd, b. 1987, lives and works in the dark paradise, often referred to as Los Angeles. Through her art making process, she explores the transcendence between dreams and waking-life in the context of magic and myth. The work often depicts utopian atmospheres filled with modern day nymphs, deities, holy beings, and party monsters who reveal the the interconnectivity of animals, people and nature. Using an explosive color palette along with intricate line-work, her freakishly folkish style combines the nostalgic essence of the fauves juxtaposed with a neon-like urban glow.

Hannah Epstein

Hannah Epstein (hanski) is a multi-dimensional universal being in the form of a hot girl. Currently she splits her time between Toronto and LA. Raised in Nova Scotia, Epstein reps east coast vibes. She makes Art using textiles (rugs, tapestry, fibre collage, soft sculpture) and a full gamut of media, old and new (video, online platforms, games). She has a B.A in Folklore, which means she accepts no narrative at face value. She has an MFA from Carnegie Mellon, which means she carries the elite blessing of the academy. She is rep'd by Steve Turner, a fancy ass gallery in LA. Hit her up.

Meghan McAleavy

Meghan McAleavy was born and raised in New Jersey and is a freelance textile artist who predominantly uses free-motion machine embroidery and appliqué techniques in her art. Her current work is inspired by traditional Masonic lodge banners. McAleavy has made dozens of one-of-a-kind Satin Banners for tattoo artists around the globe. Her attention to detail and craftsmanship have made her work highly sought after. In 2005, McAleavy received a BFA in Textiles from Oregon College of Art & Craft. She has participated in several group shows on both the East and West coasts. McAleavy currently lives and works in Asbury Park, NJ.

Maryanne Moodie

Maryanne is a fiber-obsessed maker from Australia working between Melbourne and Brooklyn, NY. She divides her time between designing and creating woven wall hangings, developing weaving kits, and teaching sold-out workshops across the world. Maryanne is best known for applying unexpected color combinations to her nostalgic designs. She is inspired by the intricacies of vintage textiles, traditional costuming, modern art, and the natural world. Maryanne’s work has been featured in New York Magazine, Anthology, O Magazine, Grazia, Interwoven, and online on Design*Sponge and The Design Files. A finalist in the Martha Stewart American Made Awards in both 2014 and 2015, she sells her work on Etsy and through online shops and boutiques around the country.

Rachel Rosenkoetter

Rachel Rosenkoetter is a visual artist living in Portland, OR. Born and raised in MO, Rosenkoetter received a BFA in Painting from Missouri State University and her MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Utilizing painting, collage and installation, her work investigates mysticism and states of being. Revealing symbols and bodies as potent with sacred potential, Rosenkoetter harnesses physical forms to speak to a metaphysical ecstasy and excess.

Emma Suman

Emma is a Portland-based artist working in textiles and traditional media. She recently graduated with her BFA from Oregon College of Art and Craft.

Anna Valdez

Working across painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, and digital media, Valdez examines the relationship between material and cultural identity. She incorporates articles found in domestic spaces such as plants, textiles, vessels and keepsakes into her work as a method of storytelling. Her colorful work invites the viewer to consider objects as emblematic of personal and collective experience, shifting between still-life and portraiture. Valdez received her MFA in painting from Boston University in 2013. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States. Valdez’s work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, New American Paintings, Booooooom.com, and Daily Serving

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Thank you @littmanandwhite for hosting us and to Shannon Gormley @willametteweek for her continued journalism #allstarteam ✨ Sun Kittens & Moon Puppies is on view until Aug 2 in the Littman Gallery @portlandstate (at Littman + White Galleries)

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People of color, especially womxn and LGBTQ+, face violence and degradation each day from white supremacy and toxic masculinity. This doesn’t just happen in far away lands or conservative cities, this happens in progressive and liberal cities too. This hatred is systematic and pervasive. Silence = death. Use the means and privilege you have to dismantle inequity. 📷 @lady_luuz #Repost @alenamuseum ・・・ Mainstream media’s continued dehumanization of Black Lives by criminalizing them is White Supremacy! ---- OAKLAND ARTISTS SEEK JUSTICE FOR NIA WILSON #justiceforniawilson Calling All Artists, Drummers and concerned Community members. Rally & March Thursday, July 26th - 10am: Congregate at the Alice Street Mural across from the Malonga Center 1428 Alice Street, Oakland - 11am: March to KTVU - 12pm: Rally at KTVU, 2 Embarcadero, Oakland In light of the weak apology offered by Fox News for the racist, insensitive and dehumanizing use of a personal picture of Oakland teen, Nia Wilson who was murdered at the MacArthur BART station, members of the ARTS community have united with the family of Nia Wilson to seek answers and justice from local FOX affiliate KTVU Channel 2. . . We the community of Oakland, artists, viewers and consumers of KTVU news, are organizing to express our anger and outrage for KTVU's decision to air an image of Nia Wilson with a cell phone case that looked like a gun in the wake of her tragic death at the hands of John Lee Cowell. . . Alena Museum will have a altar installation outside of ktvu news station for all to come and give respects to her life. Art work by @lady_luuz

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Womxn need to support womxn. #Repost @thebrettina ・・・ Women need to support women. No it's not always gonna be the reality and no, even i dont have the energy to support everybody... But give I give what i can and want to give. --------------------<3 #womenempowerment #support #localgirlgang #minneapolis #artist #truthteller #blackgirlmagic #justanotherhuman #instadaily

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Check this out! ✨ #Repost @atribecalledqueer ・・・ ATCQ Shoutout: @femmesalon_ ・・・ #FemmeSalon • Hey y’all! Come to our July Show, Friday July 27th! This months features are gonna be amazing!!! * * * Amanda Faye Jimenez @failureprincess * * Selene Whittington @beautifulselene * * Eve Moreno @iwritelight_ . . #femme #femmesalon #femmevisibility #femmeevents #femmes #forfemmes #femmesofcolor

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😂 I live 🤣 #Repost @ninachanel ・・・ 🙃 #forevermood #mood #studiotime #ninachanel #ninachanelabney

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#Repost @lgbt_history ・・・ Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984), c. 1950. Photographer unknown. . Big Mama Thornton, who died thirty-four years ago today, was a groundbreaking rhythm-and-blues artist, best-known for the original 1952 version of Lieber & Stoller’s “Hound Dog,” though her work was overshadowed when Elvis Presley recorded the song three years later. . According to most, including Thornton herself, Big Mama’s voice was unlike anything that came before. As Maureen Mahon explained, Thornton’s deep and powerful singing “tapped into a liberated black feminist persona, through which she freed herself from many of the expectations of musical, lyrical, and physical practice for black women.” . From the start of her career, Thornton transgressed the rigid social boundaries of gender expression. She wore traditionally masculine clothing, led her male musicians with an iron fist, and sang about sex in an era when even men—and certainly black men—had to be cautious. . And, while Presley’s version of “Hound Dog” is better known than Thornton’s, many—including Thornton—were unimpressed. As one modern critic summarized: “When Elvis covered ‘Hound Dog’ in 1956, he usurped black art in its purest form and refined it into a form deemed acceptable to the Western world. His jerky, crotch-centric movements…co-opt and rip-off Thornton’s image of feminine masculinity and devalues it from an expression of liberation to an expression of domination.” Whereas Thornton’s “hound dog” was a cheating lover with whom a liberated Black woman had had enough, Presley’s subject was the female herself (a female dog, in other words). . “Hound Dog” made Elvis Presley a star (and a millionaire), yet he refused to ever acknowledge Thornton’s influence. . In the late 1960s, Janis Joplin’s recording of Thornton’s “Ball ‘n’ Chain” brought renewed interest to the former’s work. . By the 1970s, the end of the American blues revival and years of heavy drinking took their toll. Big Mama Thornton was found dead in a Los Angeles boarding house on July 25, 1984; she was fifty-seven. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #BigMamaThornton

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#Repost @victoria.emanuela ・・・ I was riding in an Uber today next to a woman of color who was sobbing between coming up for air. I asked her if she needed anything and she told me that she just wanted to get out of the car, and that Nia Wilson was her close friend. She took an Uber instead of BART because she feared for her life and couldn’t handle being near a station. This isn’t news, it’s a narrative women of color and POC have been sharing forever, and we need to listen. We must listen, with everything we have, every minuscule fiber of our being. Nia’s murder is another window into the fear and terror that is the lived experience of so many POC. This woman was not only grieving for her friend, but grieving for her own life too. She had no space for one or the other, it was both, and it was soul sucking. As non-POC, we must dismantle the roots that keep racism and white supremacy in its place. Listen. Take action. Speak up. Do the work. Unlearn. Learn. Do. The. Work. If you still feel safe on BART, that has to tell you something. That’s privilege and a level of safety many people don’t have, a privilege you should never keep to yourself as you ride from your 9 to 5. We. Must. Do. The. Work. Intentionally. Everyday. And without the fear of learning from our failures because we can’t learn shit if we don’t hold ourselves accountable for unlearning the roles of an oppressor. Examine your power, your conditioning, language, indifference, white fragility, white feminism, and how you choose to show up. Most importantly, we need to hold one another accountable and distribute resources because demanding the emotional labor of POC to educate their oppressors is traumatizing and unjust. I want to share a resource that @velvetdad created “Help with Rides” which is a sign-up for white people and folks with the financial means to redistribute funds to black people and POC in the Bay Area to get rides via Uber & Lyft and avoid BART. Please feel free to ask @velvetdad any questions by DMing them directly. The link is up in my story, along with Nia’s gofundme, but it’s also here: tinyurl.com/helpwithrides — it’s easy, just open up the link, add your name, number, cash app ha

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Good luck on your journeys to being your best selves ☀️🌲🌱 #selfcare #Repost @leslielohmanmuseum ・・・ Happy grass + happy sun ☀️ @jvn’s “abstract nature moment” depicts Gay, Georgia, where @queereye is shot 🎥 Inspired by #BobRoss, the work 🎨 is now on view though August 8th 🖼 #QueerEye

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Practice self-care and best of luck on your journeys to being your best selves 💖xoxo #Repost @queereye ・・・ She’s an artiste, henny! @JVN is channeling some serious Bob Ross vibes with his visual representation of Georgia. Allow us to extend a personal invitation to you to get your brushes and your paints and paint along with us 🎨🖌 –––––– If you are a TRUE admirer of the arts head over to the @leslielohmanmuseum in NYC to see this groundbreaking painting on display along with other exclusive content. Available today through August 8th 🖼 (at Planet Earth)