The Arts & Humanities Bainbridge team, which brings you Currents, curated this list of stories we think you also might enjoy “in case you missed it.” Click on the links to learn about a Bothell…
By Linda Kramer Jenning
The Arts & Humanities Bainbridge team, which brings you Currents, curated this list of stories we think you also might enjoy “in case you missed it.” Click on the links to learn about a Bothell student choir, an anthology of Black poetry, a Beacon Hill sculptor and more cool content from our region and around the country. Enjoy!
Taylor Iverson, choir director at Bothell High School in Washington state, has gone the extra mile to keep her music classes going digitally. Read more and listen in.
Humanities Washington asked a wide range of writers how language, storytelling, literature, philosophy, and poetry can help us during troubled times. Their responses led to an engaging conversation.
PBS Craft in America explores how craft is intertwined with our nation’s defining principles. A wonderful program.
Poems to help you through a tough winter curated by The Atlantic. Sit back and savor them.
Barbara Kruger blurs the lines between political slogans, poetry and the language of advertising. Learn more about her work.
How are artists dealing with COVID cancellations? Several shared with Artwork Archive how they are supporting themselves and giving to others.
At 77, Howardena Pindell exorcises a chilling memory from childhood. The artist’s first new video in 25 years mines the history of violence against African-Americans.
Chinese artist Pan Yuliang, a former sex worker, enticed the European art scene with her landscapes, still lifes, and nude portraits in the 1930s, and then was forgotten. Rediscover her and her work.
Beacon Hill’s sculptor transforms ordinary blocks of wood into figures of nature and the divine.
Nina Chanel Abney, known for her large-scale paintings, imagines a queer Black utopia.
The new Library of America anthology “African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song,” edited by Kevin Young, is a monumental tribute.
Artist Tschabalala Self explores Black American identity with her new show in Manhattan.
LINDA KRAMER JENNING is a veteran journalist who taught at Georgetown University and worked for national magazines before moving to Bainbridge Island in 2017. She currently is a regular contributor to PostAlley.org and is on the board of AHB.
