In a city informed by mutual aid and communal practice, Tucson’s American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings focuses on programming that is “soft,” “gentle,” and deeply relational.
Raquel Gutiérrez
Raquel Gutiérrez is an essayist, arts critic/writer, and poet. Raquel is a 2017 recipient of the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Raquel also runs the tiny press, Econo Textual Objects (est. 2014), which publishes intimate works by QTPOC poets. Recent essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Open Space, ArtNet, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Georgia Review. Raquel’s first book of lyrical art essays, Brown Neon, will be published by Coffee House Press in the Spring of 2021.
Overlooking the Port of LA, an Exhibit Considers Sustainability
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The exhibition gestures to the land and sea present in the artistic imaginary of San Pedro, where viewers get to take in “reimagined vehicles wobbling across scrutinized infrastructure.”
Unraveling and Customizing the Language of Power
LOS ANGELES — Customizing Language explores how geopolitical power is expressed and managed through language, and enhances our understanding of it as a verbal communication system.