Multidisciplinary Indigenous artist and community organizer Vaquero Azul (Indigenous Mexican and Boriken-Taíno) describes themselves as “[having their] hands a little bit in everything.’...
Read onQueer Korean-Chinese American painter and visual artist Eric Chan creates technically-proficient, symbolism-laden paintings that explore his intersecting third culture identities. A self-taught artist, Chan intermixes the personal, familial, and the...
Late on a Thursday evening, Octopoulpe headlined a humble show at Mandragora, a beloved community bar in Oaxaca, Mexico. I had been prepared to leave after listening to just one song, but after the squid mask-wearing South Korea-born Frenchie...
Monyee Chau, a self-described “queer artist” and “restaurant baby,” hails from Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID), in a diverse part of the city where they still have deep connections and feel profound...
“Welcome! On this screen, I’ll be describing the sonic content of the music in this performance,” writes a slide of black text on a yellow background. The words project behind Virginia-based, disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American...
When I first came across the work of multi-hyphenate artist and educator, elijah jamal asani, it was through film. A short film that he made for a video poetry film festival, to be exact. And what struck me immediately – before I even dove deeply...
With their third full-length record, Erospace, Portland-based electronic musician and producer Crystal Quartez — real name Crystal Cortez — offers a sonic reimagining of the definition of love. Based on years of self-reflection and...
Beginning with a light-hearted tone that introduces the Internet meme origins of the word “skoden,” the documentary #skoden then radiates outwards to encompass a larger world of mental health, alcoholism, and the traumatic legacy of...
