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ultraevonne · 2 years

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#wednesday I’m in San Antonio this week teaching and learning at the @nalac_arts Leadership Institute! When I feel unanchored, this space of incredible Latinx arts and culture leaders, artists and practitioners is my home. 🙏🏾🌿 22 years of institutes-630 leaders-10 states-9 artistic disciplines. NALAQUERXS: We work, we shine, SOMOS! 👏🏽🦋 My teachers have become my fellow faculty members and I can’t be more grateful. 🙏🏾Happy Birthday @mari.hernandez.210! 🎉🎂🍾 #wednesdaywisdom #wednesdaymotivation #latinx #latino #latina #art #culture #artists #nalac #Repost @rosalbarolonr ・・・ Thrilled thrilled thrilled to be with these amazing humans as enter day#3 of the @nalac_arts Leadership Institute in San Antonio. This year marks the 22nd NLI with an amazing cohort from all over the country. Proud to be a Faculty member all these years, and sharing the space with my fellow Faculty. Thank you Maribel Alvarez (Dr.M), Abel López, @muse1971 @ajlopezbx @charlesricegonzalez and a super VIVA❤️ to Maestro Tomás Ybarra Frausto. Thank you NALAC amazing staff, who always create a welcoming and efficient atmosphere for the Institute to thrive. @maria.deleon.90260403 @albycr8ive @mari.hernandez.210 @lmgphotoarts Alyssa Pineda, Armani Villareal. GRACIAS! (at San Antonio, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf9UvRiuyUiit6Fov80i7kA3oPTb_GYa2IQYBM0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#wednesday #wednesdaywisdom #wednesdaymotivation #latinx #latino #latina #art #culture #artists #nalac #repost #3

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oceansssblue · 3 months

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~ [MAGICAL CREATURES SERIES] – THE BAD BATCH AU (N4)

Pt4. "THE SMELL OF FIRE" HUNTER/PHOENIX!OFC

THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENING IN THE SMALL MOON PLACED ON THE EDGES OF THE GALAXY WITH THE UNKOWN REGIONS. THEIR PEOPLE ARE RESERVED AND SECRETIVE; TRYING TO APPEAR NORMAL, THOUGH HUNTER HEAVILY SUSPECTS THEY AREN'T. HIS NOSE EASILY PICKS UP THE SMELL OF ASH AND FIRE.

WARNINGS (PT4): NONE, PURE FLUFF 💖

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Tech was indeed having a field day. Since finding out the truth behind Aodh's secretive tribe of natives, he had been investigating every possible inch of the new discovery. Egon had allowed him to collect his data; with the request that the information remained private to himself, and not shared via holo anywhere. Tech had agreed whole-heartedly; the need to document and learn greater than anything else.

Tech had even interviewed some of the natives; he had asked Egon for the tribe's history and beliefs, and then cross-checked it with a few aleatory basic-speakers. And he had, of course, spent a considerably larger amount of time speaking with Alinta herself. Tech had so many questions about her abilities... He had a few theories for the shape-shifting –just a step further for fast cell regeneration abilities that some species of the galaxy possesed–; but the power to produce fire out of nowhere had completely bewildered him.

It was during this interview that Tech had finally learnt of the co-habitant species in Aodh. When asked about the black fur that her tribe used to cover themselves with or served as lining to their wooden bed's, Alinta had revealed that it belonged to the only other animal species in Aodh; the Chitaris.

"Chitaris?" Tech had repeated, the word sounding surprisingly accurate despite the foreign language.

The goggled clone had surprised everyone with how fast he had been able to pick up some sentences and words in their mother tongue.

"Us come from Bennu, fire spirit. Tribe think Chitari come from Nalac, spirit of night" Alinta had explained, and Tech's curiosity had inmediately spicked again.

He opened a new document on his datapad and tapped in the new information. He adjusted his goggles before looking back up at her.

"Would you be able to give me a description?"

Alinta hummed.

"Black. Big. More that us" she pointed out. "Big teeth and hands. Hide on lake water, because same color. Wait in tribes. Then, surprise attack".

Tech nodded and replied "I'm assuming your tribe has found the way to fight them off, if you're wearing their fur?"

Alinta chuckled and shrugged.

"Chitari eat us. Us eat Chitari. Good food, good skin cover for when not hot".

"I assume no sucessful attempts at cohabiting without including each other in your respective diets have been made? No domesticating tryouts?" He glances at his datapad and hummed again. "I've been studying the plants and seeds you've been feeding us with. They do indeed cover basic humanoids requirements on themselves. There's really no need to hunt this Chitari, right? Or is it more like a tribe tradition, linked to your beliefs?"

Alinta's eyes burned brighter, and a cool smirk showed up in her face.

"You smart. Think Chitari baby and no kill. Think Aodh's small moon. Small space. That is danger to us. And..." she added, fierce wickedness darkening her features as she shrugged. "That life. We big birds, they big cats. It happens".

The woman stood up and started to walk her way back to her father –who should be back in their cabin–; ending the conversation even if Tech had still a million more questions to ask.

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Alinta felt confused at Hunter's presence in her and her dad's. She watched them from the distance while she aproached –feet dancing gracefully across the ground like always–; how they appeared to be chatting in good humour and how his father pointed here and there while Hunter... While Hunter fixed one of the walls of the cabin; pressing the wooden planks together until they clicked in place. The sudden realisation that the human was helping her dad made her heart clench.

He seemed to notice her stare; eyes flickering over the forest til they landed on hers. She showed him a soft smile and Hunter greated her with a reserved one.

Alinta made her way towards them.

"Hello, father" she chirped in their language, hugging him carefully towards her. "I see you've got company".

The trembling man turned to the clone. The skin at the corner of his eyes crinckled with age lines.

"Ah, yes, my little bird. Hunter has been helping me with some of the fixing work we needed" the old man paused and hummed conspirationally. "Chivalrious, huh? Makes me wonder if he's trying to impress..."

"Dad" she hissed with a groan.

Hunter couldn't understand them, but by the way his eyes constantly flickered between them, and how perceptive he was, she didn't want to give him any ideas. She didn't need his father to... Mingle in her already confused feelings. Feelings she was still trying to process.

The old man chuckled and raised his hands.

"Alright, alright. I'll go inside, leave you both here to talk, then" he turned to the clone with his amused grin still in place and singed his goodbyes. "Thank you, Hunter. Stay you and Alinta now".

And with that he left, walking slowly and with considerable difficulty to the inside of the cabin, and leaving them alone indeed. Hunter turned to her. Alinta sighed and sat on the ground. He didn't took much longer to follow.

They both stared at the forest around them for several quiet minutes.

"Tech has found a way to fix the Marauder" Hunter finally spoke up. "I don't think we'll be staying longer than another month, now".

Alinta's heart clenched again; painfully, this time. Maybe she didn't need to process her feelings. Maybe there was no point in doing so. He was going to leave; and she didn't blame him. He already had a family, a life outside of this.

"Okay" was her only, quiet reply. There wasn't really much to say. She didn't want to think about it, so she blurted out the first question that came to her mind. "Why you have black marks and no your family?"

Hunter's lips turned up to a smile; and he took the oportunity to explain the way clones used to difference each other with to her. Alinta listened attentively to each word. Her tribe used black stripes themselves, different shapes and forms to show each persons achievements and position; but she had never thought Hunter's would be a simple way of constructing his identity. It didn't rest her attraction to him, nonetheless.

"Do you miss? Kamino?" She asked, voice carefull.

Hunter sighed.

"Sometimes, if only because it's everything we've known. But there's no other reason. Kaminoans... Hell, most of the galaxy never treated us as normal humans".

Alinta's thigh pressed comfortingly to his. She turned her face towards him.

"You look human to me" she answered, her eyes honest.

Hunter felt warm knowing it was her way of telling him that she saw him as a person deserving of respect. That she saw him as a person. That she saw him, fullstop.

He pressed his thigh back against hers.

"Thank you". They stayed in silence for some long seconds before Hunter changed the direction of their conversation. "How come your tribe know basic, by the way? Did you learn from this old fights with nearby stars, as you said?"

Alinta openly laughed and made a "more or less" gesture with her hand. She answered his abrupt curious question; and promptly the conversation fluently advanced to other anecdotes and interests.

Energy pulsed between them the whole time; one searching, the other recognising, before switching their roles and caressing the other. Hunter and Alinta both felt a growing warmth inside of them; and reigned in the want to grab each other's hand again.

END OF PART FOUR

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PART FIVE HERE:

THERE WE GO WITH CHAPTER FOUR! IT'S KINDA SLOW AND SHORT BUT I JUST WANTED A BIT OF TIME FOR THEIR CHARACTERS TO CONTINUE GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER. SO I LEAVE YOU THIS LITTLE PIECE OF FLUFF. FOR NEXT CHAPTER WE'VE GOT SOME ANGST/ACTION AND AFTER THAT ONE WE FINALLY GOT THE WRAP UP!

LET ME KNOW HOW YOU'RE FINDING THE SERIES AND REBLOG IF U CAN! HELPS ME TO STAY MOTIVATED.

IF YOU WANT TO BE TAGGED IN ANYTHING OF MINE, LET ME KNOW!

Xx,

Sky.

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starry-stims · 1 year

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NaLac Technique - credit me (link or tag) if using!

#tw fire #fire tw #cw fire #fire cw #stim #stimblr #visual stim #stimmy #sensory #stimming #gifs #gif set #stim gifs #gold #gold stim #gold ingot #gold ingot stim

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dreamiara · 9 months

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english philology…. there’s a minimal chance that we went to the same university lmao - urlwasfound

w automacie niedaleko wejscia (tam gdzie jest tez ten najlepszy z kawą i to takie ze mozna sobie wode nalac) princessa kokosowa jest za 2.80 a w kazdym innym jest za 3.20 jakby co

#zuzia tag #ja mysle ze jest naprawde duza szansa 😭😭#no bo gdzie indziej doslownie

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art150blog · 6 months

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Journal 3, NALAC

For my media selection I chose to look at NALAC’s (The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture). The subject of this website is Latino Arts and Culture and I decided to use this organization because for the other two Tumblr blogs I focused on Latino shows and movies and thought that this would be a great addition to my research and learning, as well as to showcase on my posts.

The NALAC is an organization that focuses on stabilizing and rewriting programs that focus on US Latino culture and arts through leadership training, funding, research, and advocacy. Their community is multi-generational, multi-ethnic, and includes thousands of artists in both rural and urban communities. Focusing and valuing the art of Latino artists. I think it speaks to their organization and what they’re focus is when they are accepting and focusing on not only their own culture and arts but accepting and valuing artists of multiple different ethnic backgrounds rather than pushing them out for not being exactly the same as they are. By investing time, money, and resources into artists that fosters the growth in multiple different areas of life like belonging and work/career development that helps break the intergenerational stigmas and ways to break down walls and barriers set up in our minds. NALAC also focuses on intergenerational dialogues to help create and facilitate ways to break down those walls and promote expression and truly understanding and changing the narrative. They are fostering talented and accomplished leaders in the Latino arts community. Throughout class this semester we’ve been talking about breaking down barriers when it comes to race, gender, and sexuality and I think that NALAC is really working towards that fight. They are doing real work and pushing for equality and fighting for what really matters.

NALAC shows the importance of community and establishing a place where creativity can thrive. In addition to the funding and creating a place where creativity and arts can thrive they support funding and research to continue their growth and community. Their website is https://www.nalac.org/

Below I have included a video from NALAC’s YouTube that features Dr. Tomás Ybarra-Frausto who is an independent Chicano art scholar and he shares his experience about the NALAC leadership institute. I have also included a picture from their website that features artists and musicians. And the third image shows an event of theirs.

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giseller00 · 6 months

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Alejandra Aragon

Alejandra Aragon is a Mexican photographer from Ciudad Juarez, in the state of Chihuahua, MX. Her work is subtle and mysterious in its depiction of life in a border city, addressing topics like migration, "intimate and public violence," feminism, and social transformation. Aragon holds a degree in Visual Arts and Business from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, she participated in several group exhibitions throughout Mexico and Europe from 2013 to 2020, and she was awarded the Mexican arts grant (FONCA) in 2019 as well as the NALAC's Border Narrative Change Grant in 2020.

One of Aragon's individual projects is titled Vine a La Pinta. The pink tint of the photos is a result of using film that is sensitive to the infrared spectrum of light. Everything that is green shows up as bright pink in the photos. Aragon explains her deliberate use of pink is mean to reveal "an invisible spectrum of reality"--in this case, specifically, the oppressive nature of rigid gender roles. Aragon argues that these roles are at the root of many of Mexico's issues, for example: by radicalizing young boys into "achieving the hegemonic ideals of masculinity" by participating in the violent drug trafficking industry.

I love the way Aragon's Vine a La Pinta project utilizes the neon pink and magenta color to transform the landscape of her homeland into a surreal dreamscape. That particular project of hers appeals to me both aesthetically and ideologically. The idea of gender, and the roles it forces children and adults into, is limiting at best and detrimental to society at worst. The way that Aragon used something as abstract as the manipulation of color to communicate such a complicated idea inspires me to try and do something similar with color in my own work.

Photographer Research Post: 8/8

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zyciemprzezzycie · 5 years

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– To wódka? – słabym głosem zapytała Małgorzata.(...) – Na litość boską, królowo – zachrypiał – czy ośmieliłbym się nalać damie wódki? To czysty spirytus.

Michaił Bułhakow

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nyfacurrent · 6 years

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Apply Now | Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: San Antonio

Deadline to apply is Monday, November 19 at 11:59 PM CST.

Through the support of the Ford Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce the second year of Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: San Antonio, presented in collaboration with San Antonio local partners.

The program’s goal, within an inclusive safe space, is to foster a local community of artists sharing the immigrant experience and provide resources through entrepreneurial training, access to other artists, arts professionals, and organizations. The program offers immigrant artists the opportunity to focus on their creative practice and gain support and exposure for their work while upholding their distinct cultural identities.

The program combines two of NYFA’s professional development programs: the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, through which NYFA provides access to artist mentors and arts professionals via panels and workshops, and the Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp, which provides artists with the fundamental principles of sustainability in the arts. Featured topics will include strategic planning, finance, law, marketing, and fundraising. Additional material will be drawn from NYFA’s newly-revised popular textbook The Profitable Artist (Allworth Press, 2018).

In collaboration with San Antonio-based partners, the program will have two weekend entrepreneurial boot camps, one-on-one mentoring, an informal gathering between weekend sessions, and an individual consultation with an arts professional.

This is a competitive program open to artists from all disciplines (Performing, Literary, Visual, Multidisciplinary, Video/Film, Folk and Traditional Arts) based in San Antonio, TX and provided free of charge to accepted participants. The program will run from January 2019 to April 2019, and will bring together San Antonio artists to nurture a productive environment for collaboration.

Eligibility:

Live within the San Antonio area (within commuting distance of San Antonio)*

Either you or your parents were born outside of the United States or in United States territories including Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands

Refugees are also welcome to apply

*Priority will be given to artists living and working in San Antonio; however the program is open to artists in Texas within commuting distance of San Antonio.

Mandatory Sessions:

First Weekend Boot Camp Workshop: Saturday, January 12, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Sunday, January 13, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Mid-program Check-In: Thursday, February 28, 6:00 - 8:30 PM

Second Weekend Boot Camp Workshop: Saturday, April 13, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Sunday, April 14, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Attendance is mandatory to all sessions, so please check your calendar before applying. San Antonio based partners will host meetings.

Application Link: Click here to apply

Deadline: Monday, November 19, 2018 11:59 PM CST*

*Deadline extended from Monday, November 12, 2018

Application Guidelines:

For the application we ask you to provide:

Your long terms goals and why you are interested in applying to this program

A narrative bio of your professional career

A link to your website or online presence

Work samples

To Apply:

Applicants can apply via Submittable; first time users will need to register with Submittable to access the application portal. If you need access to a computer to fill out the application, please email [email protected]. Electronic submissions should be completed by Monday, November 19, 11:59 PM CST

Aplique aqui en español.

Notification: Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Questions? Contact the NYFA Learning team at [email protected] and include “San Antonio” in the subject line.

Preguntas? escribanos a [email protected] con el email titulado: "San Antonio."

Thank you to our cultural partners in San Antonio:

SAY Sí

National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures

Blue Star Contemporary

San Antonio Museum of Art

This program is made possible with the support of the Ford Foundation.

Learn more about the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, and don’t forget to sign up for the monthly Con Edison IAP Newsletter to receive opportunities and events as well as artist features directly to your inbox.

Image: Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: San Antonio, 2017, Blue Star Contemporary, Photo Credit: Elias Flores

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delectablyunabashedcreator · 4 years

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#nalac #field survey #latinx #jazzdelapena

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strazcenter · 4 years

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Resources for Artists

Resources for Artists #fromtheblog

We put together this list of resources for artist assistance.

Part of The Straz’s mission is to support local artistic talent, and usually we’re able to do that by offering stages, gigs like Live & Local or Arts Legacy REMIX and unique opportunities to collaborate. But when audiences must stay home, our best effort to support our local artists through this global pause is to compile a list of…

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#art #artist #artist assistance #artist relief #arts #arts council of hillsborough county #florida department of cultural affairs #local art #NALAC #south arts #st. pete arts alliance #Tampa

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ultraevonne · 2 years

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#friyay Such a gift in more ways than one to visit w friend and NALAC Leadership Institute alumn @susanasmithbautista today at the AltaMed collection. Wonderful to see the growing number of art works in their already expansive collection, especially this small and captivating piece by @eloytorrez 🤩 and to hear about some exciting future developments! Also SO grateful for Susana’s generosity and help in building good karma around my jewelry collection by gifting me w this GORGEOUS family piece. I will treasure it my friend! 🥰🙏🏾🌿 #friday #fridayfeeling #art #artists #artandhealing #chicanoart #chicanxart #chicano #chicanx #latinx #latinxart (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg5T55yPFbg-N0R4XXU8xZ0wHbhmkswiMr1US00/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#friyay #friday #fridayfeeling #art #artists #artandhealing #chicanoart #chicanxart #chicano #chicanx #latinx #latinxart

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wonderwhatifblog · 5 years

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“El Valle de Mexico” Abstracts from a long running series of paintings inspired by travel. Most of my ideas begin as words or images jotted down in the sketchbook. Later as time allows I’m able to create the complete vision. These come from a trip to Mexico a few years ago. #sketchaday #painting #mexicanart #arte #nalac @nalac #latinoart https://www.instagram.com/p/BzGZ5biJrsX/?igshid=16rujo73gnwqd

#sketchaday #painting #mexicanart #arte #nalac #latinoart

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stephaniemercado · 5 years

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Came home to a super cool portrait of me as a gatita by the talented #michaelmenchaca from #SanAntonio #TX. Check out his work at michaelmenchaca.com #NALAC #portrait https://www.instagram.com/p/BsPQa7Qlb3b/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12dw2z5ueh4sc

#michaelmenchaca #sanantonio #tx #nalac #portrait

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lucy-corsetry · 7 years

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🎶 “All the leaves are brown 🍂🍁 / And the sky is grey” 🎶

Today I'm dreaming of my past whirlwind trip to California back in 2015. Did you miss it? See my (short) post about it above - I attended the Corsetry & Lingerie Symposium, interviewed Sidney Eileen and Puimond, visited various shops in Burbank like PUG and WKD (and briefly ducked into Agent Provocateur, but the customer service was keeping a close eye on us so we just decided to leave). And I touched the Pacific for the first time. :) I'd love to go back to Cali next year. Locals, what should I see or do while I'm there? (Apart from Disneyland, obvs)

#lucy corsetry #Puimond #sidney eileen #california #nalace

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liendoesja · 5 years

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Piękna gra kolorów! Ah, wiosno, przybywaj!💜😁🌱 • • • #marzec2019 #wiosna2019 #wiisnawholandii #kolorowonam #zoltyplaszcz #fiolet #fioletowo #fioletowy #rosliny #krokusy #fioletowekwiaty #wholandii #natura #nalace #zolty https://www.instagram.com/p/BupDcozARM1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=o3yfb56v1cqw

#marzec2019 #wiosna2019 #wiisnawholandii #kolorowonam #zoltyplaszcz #fiolet #fioletowo #fioletowy #rosliny #krokusy #fioletowekwiaty #wholandii #natura #nalace #zolty

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monica-andino · 3 years

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Where Are We From?

Dear friends, after a long time with no posts (I suck for social media) I’m happy to share that I was selected as NALAC Fund for the Arts Grantee at the beginning of this year. I’ve been working with Adriana and Jose to create our first children’s book together, titled Where Are We From? The book is about immigration/migration. We expect to launch the website by the end of this month. And also continuing with the good news, our friends at Wave Pool will be publishing the printed version in the new year in Cincinnati. You can hear us talk more about the process and award in this virtual studio video by the Taft Museum in Cincinnati.

Here are a few snaps of the work in progress:

#Illustration

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