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Art Off Pause Playlist

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Did you miss us? That’s okay – every episode of #ArtOffPause is available for viewing on YouTube.
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Previous Guests on #ArtOffPause

  • 7/ 1: Tammy Johnson on bellydance, community, and Black resilience in the Bay Area.
  • Tuesday 5/12:  Kevin Seaman on toxic masculinity, drag culture and #femMASCULINE in San Francisco.
  • Monday 5/4:  Alexander Hernandez on textiles, migration, and resilience in Latino communities in California.
  • Tuesday 4/28:  Marcela Torres on agentic modes, Muay Thai, and moving past violence in Chicago.
  • Monday 4/27:  Channing Kennedy on preschool storytimes and equity in California.
  • Friday 4/25: Kale Roberts on hijacking the ritual of tailgating in Florida.
  • Thursday 4/24: Betty Yu on imagining de-gentrified futures in New York.
  • Monday 4/20: Lexa Walsh on radical hospitality and artist residencies in California.

Art Off Pause Livestream

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We need art, and we need each other. Every part of our world has been disrupted by the COVID-19 outbreak.  Americans have turned to arts as a refuge. Since we can’t gather in person, we’ve moved our socializing online.

#ArtOffPause is a livestream series and social media campaign that helps us to stay connected as we look ahead. Our arts institutions are “on pause” to stop the spread of COVID-19. Artists, curators, and scholars will preview their suspended or upcoming projects via livestream. Our community can envision what the future might bring after the public health crisis.

We can’t access our museums and galleries, but we have access to each other. This crisis gives us an opportunity to highlight the people and process of art, instead of objects. Through connecting on a daily basis, we can deepen our relationship to our work and to our larger community. We need something to look forward to in the face of national adversity.

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Stay tuned for more from #ArtOffPause this summer!

 

 

 

The Art of Politics

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How do we talk politics? Many months away from the presidential election, I’m already tired of our current discussion. The news is full of conversations that don’t work: recaps of overcrowded debates, endless fact checking, and GIFs of candidates’ faces. Also not helpful for political inspiration: long policy papers that no one but reporters and political junkies will read. And certainly the least useful: the screaming and shouting led by reality-show candidate Donald Trump.

Read more at The Nation