Dutch artist Elis Vermuelen’s Global Burrows Project is an exploration of the places we inhabit and what we leave behind. From the beaches of the Netherlands to a disused house in the American Midwest, Vermuelen’s two-year journey opens a window onto our relationships with ourselves, each other, and our surroundings.
In an UpClose Interview, Mathilde Jansen discusses her documentary art photography in Tanzania.
Her Circle Ezine discusses creative collaboration and the necessity of artist-to-artist support with Poets JP Howard and Sheila Slaughter, founders of Women Writers In Bloom Poetry Salon.
In this exclusive interview, we talk with artists Caitlin Reuter and Suzanne Stroebe about Tea Party politics, the role of feminism in art practice today, and the fine art of collaboration.
Shana Thornton interviews artist and Fulbright Scholar Siona Benjamin about her “Finding Home” series: “Benjamin said that when she began this work in 1995, she was ‘thinking about Tikkun ha-Olam and how important it is to say the truth.’ Tikkun ha-Olam is a phrase in Hebrew that means ‘World Repair’ and is used to signify a pursuit of social justice. Benjamin’s inspiration from the color blue and the social concept of world repair prompted the main title for the series, Finding Home, which documents Benjamin’s search for home and place and her observations concerning displacement.”
“We’re living at a time where vampires and werewolves and all sorts of sexy-spooky ghouls are prowling the collective consciousness, and I don’t think that’s an accident…”
For the past decade, photojournalist Mimi Chakarova has traveled throughout Europe and the Middle East, documenting women’s stories of brutal captivity and anguished survival in the sex trade. In that time, she has gone undercover more times than she can count, each time risking her own life in a quest to reveal the truth of a grizzly underworld dominated by corruption, deceit, and dangerous mafia networks.
Rabbi Andrea Myers, author of The Choosing: A Rabbi’s Journey from Silent Nights to High Holy Days (Rutgers University Press, 2011), writes a memoir in which spiritual practice and humor are merged for a look at formal religion. Rabbi Myers centers the text on annual Jewish holy days and writes about her movement away from her evangelical Lutheran-based upbringing. She comes out as a lesbian, moves to Jerusalem, and converts to Judaism. Now, she is a rabbi and a writer. Shana Thornton talks with Rabbi Myers about humor, religion, sexuality, storytelling and PTSD. Leave a comment on this interview from August 15-30, 2011, for a chance to win a copy of Rabbi Myers’ book.
Val B. Russell interviews Kathleen Winter about gender, uniqueness and the process of writing Annabel, her novel short-listed for this year’s Orange Prize for fiction. Annabel is the story of Wayne, a hermaphrodite born in Labrador, Newfoundland.
Shana Thornton interviews Sandra Beasley about her new memoir and cultural history of food allergies, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (Crown, 2011). Beasley discusses how her family tried to protect her while also allowing her try new foods, the social exclusion she experienced while growing up due to her food allergies and what it’s like when people think that food allergies are eccentricities to be claimed. Read the UpClose Interview with Sandra Beasley here.
Tori Grant-Welhouse writes about The Chalk Circle, a new anthology of intercultural prize-winning essays and finds that “our melting pot days are behind us. The impetus can no longer be homogeneity but validation of the diversity that makes us different or ‘other.’”
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Dutch artist Elis Vermuelen’s Global Burrows Project is an exploration of the places we inhabit and what we leave behind. From the beaches of the Netherlands to a disused house in the American Midwest, Vermuelen’s two-year journey opens a window onto our relationships with ourselves, each other, and our surroundings.
Colombian writer of creative non-fiction, Adriana Pàramo reads from her recently published book Looking for Esperanza, which won the Social Justice and Equality Award in Creative Nonfiction in 2011, and discusses the issues raised in the book with Claire Hart.
Eco Arts Notebook examines Polly Higgins, author of Eradicating Ecocide—exposing the corporate and political practices destroying the planet and proposing the laws needed to eradicate ecocide, and her work with exposing the world to the idea and concerns about Ecocide.
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