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Octavia Butler on why she writes

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Review: The Masterful, Unsettling Work of a Female Cuban Printmaker 

Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayon is the first solo museum exhibition in the United States dedicated to the work of Belkis Ayón (1967–1999)—the late Cuban visual artist who mined the founding myth of the Afro-Cuban fraternal society Abakuá to create an independent and powerful visual iconography. The exhibition continues at the Fowler Museum through February 12, 2017. 

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Life, and Nothing More… (1992), dir. Abbas Kiarostami

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"Dominant imperialism seeks to prevent portraying African and Arab values to other nations. Were they to appreciate our values and behavior they might respond positively to us. They believe themselves 'superior' to us, to our peoples' roles in world history. We are not proposing isolation, closing our frontiers to all Western film, nor any protectionism separating us from the rest of the world. We wish to survive, develop, and participate as sovereign peoples in our own specific cultural fields and to fulfill our responsibilities in a world from which we are now excluded."

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Wind Horse :: Pauline Oliveros (1996)

For chorus, Deep Listening publications

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Analog

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Coming to Writing - Hélène Cixous

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One more final

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ad for a video finding business in filmfax magazine, 1990.

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art will save you, being unreasonably passionate about something niche will save you, letting past sources of joy show you the way back to yourself will save you, earnestness over composure will save you, the natural world will save you, caring for something bigger than yourself will save you, daring to be seen will save you, kindness not as a whim but a principle will save you, appreciation as a practice will save you, daring to try something new will save you, grounding will save you, love will save you, one good nights sleep will save you

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You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

"Decalogue Of The Artist" by Gabriela Mistral

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So…we are here.

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The invention of the social class “creative” is the worst thing to happen to our generation. Hoards of people have deluded themselves into thinking they are artist. Actually they don’t think that, they think they’re “creatives” whatever that means. Meanwhile these major institution rake in profits while we are forced to consume the most shallow versions of gifts that were supposed to be granted to select people by God. You are destroying our collective soul because you want to “ get your name out there” and “make it”. You are not blessed with that gift. Go get a job and help save our planet from the clutches of white supremacy, instead of hoping and praying you can wiggle into the room with them. That not so hidden and subtle desire for money, power, status and fame shows each time. You don’t need to be a creative everything you make is shit. Go be a social worker and give some people the will to live for real cuz your “art” wont.

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a few years ago when I was applying for my master's program there were some people on here that reviewed my personal statement and I wish I could remember who to thank them again cuz I graduate tomorrow

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leonard cohen, 1965.

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"The Cultural Body: The artist's model" in The Black Female Body: A Photographic History by Carla Williams and Deborah Willis (Temple University Press, 2002).

Source: Cilangee