Bizhiki‘s debut album, Unbound, released on JagJaguwar, presents a powerful reimagining of contemporary Native music, born from Ojibwe homelands of the present-day Midwest. A multi-genre...
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Vee Hua 華婷婷According to rural Kentucky-based painter Cierra G. Rowe, she doesn’t live in a region of country that is particularly known for its contemporary or challenging art. Yet through many years of using the canvas to work through her own traumas...
Navi EsparzaPainter and visual artist Soo Hong refuses to stay still. As an artist who constantly challenges herself to experience fulfillment through her artistic practice, Hong’s paintings mirror the fluidity of her subject matter. They are...
A narrative feature film co-written and co-directed by Mexican filmmakers Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero, Sujo is a powerful, multidimensional work of art about the forces that keep young Mexican boys under the influence of drug cartels – as...
Based off of writer-director Alika Tengan (Kanaka Maoli)’s 2019 short film of the same name, Moloka’i Bound is an intimate narrative feature film about a man’s return to society, his family, and his community, following his incarceration...
Hosted at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute on April 26, the 21st annual Seattle Black Film Festival celebrated opening night with Songs from the Hole, a powerful and moving documentary film co-written and directed by Emmy-nominated...
Jake RennBy the time one arrives at the half-resort, half-therapeutic center which serves as the main setting for writer-director Meredith Hama-Brown‘s narrative feature film, Seagrass, it’s already quite apparent that the creator’s voice is...
Saelyx FinnaPalestinian filmmaker Yousef Srouji has called himself an “accidental filmmaker.” Divine timing could be another way of interpreting the creation of his first film, Three Promises, which premiered in 2023, amidst Israel’s war on...