Okorie Johnson
Okorie “OkCello” Johnson is an Atlanta-based musician who began playing cello at age 6. As a composer and songwriter, Johnson’s artistry integra...
When Covid-19 closed the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, exhibitions director Lauren Tate Baeza had two choices. She could wait for the quarantine t...
SUSAN BOOTH is artistic director of the Alliance Theatre. (Photo by Johnathon Kelso for The New York Times/Courtesy the Alliance Theatre)
The more comfortabl...
Gregor Turk
Gregor Turk is an artist known for his public art installations, ceramic sculpture, photography and mixed-media constructions. His work is in a per...
We are a cultural institution rather than an arts organization, but I recall one incident with an arts organization partner. The partner was staging a performan...
Artists often turn their firsthand experiences into pieces of beauty that turn darkness into light. Consuming art gives audiences that chance to connect on a de...
As a mixed Filipino actor I’ve encountered my fair share of racial slights from the industry. An abbreviated list includes being called a “risk factor” in theat...
I’ve consistently noticed over the decade since my first book was published that when I attended writers’ conferences, first as graduate student, then as a spea...
After all of the time that has passed, I am still in utter disbelief. Not only are we in the midst of a global pandemic, but our nation is also confronting cent...
The brutal public lynchings of George Floyd and Ahmed Aubrey occurred at a crossroads in history where the “before life’” of the nation’s racialized past meets ...
