A visiting Latino playwright from San Francisco asked me a fairly innocuous question, “Where’s your Latino Theatre Group?” I stumbled on my answer. “Uh, you mean in Long Beach?” Simple enough question. And I couldn’t come up with anything better then “There is none.” The conversation then turned to what else we got. I listed…
“African American artist Delano Dunn examines questions of racial identity in his work, which was heavily influenced by his upbringing in South Central Los Angeles. Dunn offers his Brief But Spectacular take on exploring the world through his art.” Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour…
Tasha Hunter wears many hats in Long Beach. She is the Executive Director of the Uptown Business Improvement District and founder of Wiggins Hunter Consulting Group, President of the Arts Council for Long Beach, and community engagement consultant on an exciting new project developing an African-American Cultural Center in Long Beach. Wait, there’s more. Tasha…
I first heard the spoken word of June “Jumakae” Kaewsith at a Homeland Cultural Center event. She blew me away. Since then, I’ve discovered so many of her voices. According to a bio she wrote up for this story, she described herself as “…a cultural worker using the arts as a way to engage and mobilize…
Hypervisibilities with Sondra Perry: Interacting Artist and Activist Communities This event, developed by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in dialog with Sondra Perry, brings together the work and voices of activists, artists, cultural critics, and public intellectuals to consider how art and activism are shaping one another as visual materials that are…
Tatiana Flores, Ph.D. is the guest curator of the newest exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art (molaa) in Long Beach, Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago. The exhibition, now at molaa until February 25, 2018, features over 80 artists with roots in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Curaçao, Aruba,…
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, known as MASS MoCA, has become one of America’s largest exhibition spaces for modern creativity, as well as a case study in reviving old industrial towns. Jeffrey Brown reports on the museum’s decision to embrace the town’s industrial past, and whether replacing manufacturing with art and culture is sufficient…
Translation of Ramón Rodriguez done by his wife, Debbie Rodriguez. Special Thanks to padnet.tv for use of their video equipment. Please visit their website to learn how you can become a member. Editor’s Note: Debbie Rodriguez, a former Peace Corps Volunteer, has been married to Bolivian artist, Ramón Rodriguez, for eighteen years. They moved from…
PalacioMagazine.com‘s recent interview with artist and activist June “Jumakae” Kaewsith gave us an opportunity to hear her powerful spoken word piece,“Communities that I’m a part of”. It inspired us to think about the power of Community. The power of Community that occurs when people find common purpose. Shared goals. Mindful of the consequences that will affect…
PalacioMagazine.com finishes its conversation with Arts Council for Long Beach Executive Director Griselda Suarez. In this last part, Suarez discusses issues including Arts Education, Advocacy, Community Engagement and how her tenure at the Arts Council will be different than the last five or six Executive Directors in ten years. Want to find out more about Arts Education…