The role of the artist
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The role of the artist
In the face of crisis, what keeps us imagining a way forward? Writer, activist, and facilitator @adriennemareebrown sat down with artist Za’Nia Coleman (@zania_s) to talk about hope in the face of dystopias, what stories can be found in our DNA, and the potential that speculation has for making the world a better place.... See more
instagram.comInitially, you create solely for yourself in order to discover what you are. Your art places you in the world. This is very exciting – you feed off the world, off other artists, off your collaborators, off everything around you. By sucking up the world, you become full of potential and powerful with art. But at some point, for me at least, this
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Too often today, the only narratives that matter are personal ones, and many have seen a widening gulf between their individual hopes and dreams and those of the world around them. Too often, as well, people feel like powerless observers of forces and trends they cannot control. The rekindling of social imagination is one aspect of taking back
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