Winner of the Frieze L.A. art fair’s Impact Prize uses quilting to reveal the reality of life in prison: "If my artwork is able to give people an understanding of what an individual goes through while in prison -- it definitely means a lot."
The work of the new year must be to keep the orange fascist out of the White House. But there must a concomitant effort to inform, organize and persuade political leaders and the masses to address the national and planetary crisis.
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The pursuit of political truth is never a one-time arrival point, but rather, something an artist must belabor again and again with each new iteration expanding on the previous and informing the next.
A sketch in his notebook might become the basis for a comic, Schumann said. "Instead of leaving it hidden on those pages," he said, "start drawing away and make it public.
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