Artist Biography Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine poet, activist and academic. Osorio earned her PhD in English — Hawaiian literature, with the completion of her dissertation entitled: “(Re)membering ʻUpena of Intimacies: A Kanaka Maoli Moʻolelo Beyond Queer Theory.” Currently, Osorio is an ...
Artist Biography Amyra León is a musician, playwright, author, and activist. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, her work fuses music and poetry through powerfully transparent performances focusing on social inequalities and communal healing whilst celebrating love, Blackness, and womanhood. She has ...
Artist Biography Damon Davis is an award-winning post-disciplinary artist who works and resides in St. Louis, Missouri. His work spans across illustration, painting, printmaking, music, film, and public art. Davis is Co-Director of critically acclaimed documentary Whose Streets?, chronicling the Ferguson rebellion of 2014. Davis ...
Artist Biography Anik Khan, born in Bangladesh and raised in Queens, is a young hip hop artist whose music sketches the immigrant experience with rare poetic flare and incisive depth. With a whole masala of influences at his fingertips — from his South Asian roots, ...
Artist Biography Maia Cruz Palileo is a multi-disciplinary, Brooklyn-based artist. Migration and the permeable concept of home are constant themes in their paintings, installations, sculptures, and drawings. Influenced by the oral history of their family’s arrival in the United States from the Philippines, as well ...
Artist Biography A native of New Orleans, Christian Scott is a modern jazz music artist, trumpeter and composer. Raised in a family of legendary musicians, Scott’s musical form attempts to “stretch” jazz’s rhythmic, melodic and harmonic conventions to encompass as many other musical forms, languages ...
Artist Biography Vincent Valdez is an American artist born in San Antonio, Texas who focuses on painting, drawing, and printmaking. His artwork often emphasizes themes of social justice, memory, and ignored or under-examined historical narratives. Vincent Valdez is most recognized for his monumental portrayal of ...
In 1939, 20,000 Nazi sympathizers staged a rally in Madison Square Garden in New York City with Nazi imagery displayed next to a portrait of George Washington. Walter Winchell couldn’t allow the event to go unnoticed by the American people and condemned it on his ...
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American Masters and Firelight Media present In the Making, a new documentary short film series following the lives and journeys of eight emerging BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) cultural artists who bring insight and originality to their artistic craft. Featuring eight cinematic and character-driven shorts by ...
Michael Tilson Thomas talks about the James Brown song that caused him to pull the car over as a teenager in Los Angeles and how he uses that song to this day when training young conductors.
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