“Questions from this council about AFTA’s racial equity work have been met with resistance, claims of capacity issues, and defensiveness,” says a letter signed by 14 out of 15 elected members of AFTA’s Arts Education Advisory Council.
Author Archives: Kriston Capps
Kriston Capps is a staff writer for CityLab, the urbanism site for Bloomberg News. He is based in Washington, D.C.
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An Iranian-American Artist’s Unfinished Abstractions
Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, “Caress my darkness, liminal lover 3” (2016), acrylic and watercolor on panel, 30 x 24 in. (all images courtesy of Hemphill Fine Arts) “Caress my darkness, liminal lover” is the title of three paintings by Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi. Each depicts a brimstone hellscape speckled with cypress trees, plumages of seafoam-colored cabbage, and […]