The world needs more people like photographic artist Jaylon Smith, a 2019 graduate of SCAD’s commercial photography program and managing partner of Huein Studios, a multicultural media and creative agency in Atlanta. His latest exhibit, The Land of Milk and Honey, doesn’t merely pull back the curtain on the ever-patient, unforgiving and ever-steady African women cradling…
Luis Pineda grew up in Cartersville, the son of parents who grew up in farming families in Mexico. “My first memory of art has to be seeing the architecture and statues at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City when I was 8,” Pineda says. “Up until that point, I hadn’t experienced anything like that before….
One of Atlanta’s more street-certified rappers, Shah ducks off somewhere in Midtown on a hot, rumbling summer night. He’s filled himself up on protein: a shake, tacos, rotisserie chicken, takeout from Halal Guys on Eighth Street. “It’s been a point of mine to support local restaurants,” he says. Then, in the next breath, he’s onto…
SheBloom: “7/11” Julianna Smaltz, better known as SheBloom, released “7/11” on, well, July 11. The tune maintains an underlying drum beat throughout, leaning hard into traditional electronic radio pop textures. The song is a shift for Smaltz, whose early recordings featured her singing over gentle acoustic guitar strums. The Atlanta native graduated from Kennesaw State…
Late last year, Kennesaw State University struck gold in what you could call one classic bounty: more than 9,000 albums of jazz music. That is more than three tons of vinyl. There are small groups, big bands, anthologies, compilations and box sets. Jeff Simpson, a music educator at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic School in…
At 78, Gilbert Young is still a working artist. He continues to add to his As I See It series while planning a line of Black Lives Matter jewelry, among other projects, from his home and studio in West End. The nationally known multidisciplinary artist and art conservator was born in Cincinnati and, in 1994,…
About 12 years ago, Atlanta rapper Awesomeisjayell went by Jay-L. At the time, he was listening to the legendary Jay-Z and Big L Hot 97 freestyle often while driving his 1993 red Chevrolet Silverado. He liked the freestyle enough to put the two names together and use that as his own rap name. Awesomeis, the…
Muddy Mya is a new recording artist from the Stone Mountain area. Part of her allure is her mystery. She wears a mask and is almost always publicly draped in black clothes and hues. In the only other interview she’s done to date, a January sitdown with Creative Hustle USA, she said, “I knew I…
Big Havi is only 20 years old, but over the phone he sounds grizzled, seasoned and just about every other adjective one could use to describe someone who’s been through the fire and the brimstone and lived to sing about it. Big Havi, born Javier Hardeman to a single parent in East Atlanta, is very…
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