Artistically Inclined: How I Came to Understand Public Art
Once I thought I didn’t know what art was. I knew I wasn’t alone because not everyone ‘gets’ art. Not everyone wants to ‘get’ art. Some individuals could care less for it. For the latter though, not...
View ArticleBlack Environmental Thought II: Are You Coming? To the Conference!
Conference Details: The Black Environmental Thought II Conference will take place from Friday, September 21 – Sunday, September 23, 2012 at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in the Hubert...
View ArticleFree Download: BELLS Demo Tracks
Shout out to Guerilla Café in Berkeley, CA for sharing BELLS via their Facebook page…like, 3 months ago. I’ve been listening to these tracks all morning as I wrote. I wanted to share them with you...
View ArticleConnected Perspectives: 2012 Black Environmental Thought II Conference
If there is one thing I can say about September 2012′s Black Environmental Thought II Conference (BET2) held in Minneapolis on the University of Minnesota’s campus, it is that such a gathering was...
View ArticleIYE Team is Thankful For…
As we join our extended families and friends today to stuff our faces and bellies with that home cooked, delicious Thanksgiving food, the IYE team got together this morning and shared some of the,...
View ArticleA “Lovelee Day” with Xavier Marquis
Here at IYE, one thing we love is some positive, soulful, and plain ol’ funky melodies and lyrics. Local Twin Cities hip-hop artist Xavier Marquis knows exactly what that sounds like. Because he...
View ArticleFrom Rural South to Urban North: The Work of Jacob Lawrence
A cultural migration from a rural environment to an urban environment continues to shape the environmental, educational and economic landscape of North American cities to this day. Written back in...
View ArticleWhen It Rains At Night
I could write a poem about rain everyday for the rest of my life. That is how much I enjoy rain. Sometimes frightening and other times friendly, rain is one of my favorite expressions the weather...
View ArticleGrit
In downtown Tampa, where the buildings seem to barely touch the sky and the symphony of honking horns competes with car radios, it can be easy to lose sight of people. We want to bring you back to...
View ArticleChaun Webster’s Literary Mixtape of Nat Turner
Literary-craftsman Chaun Webster creates a technicolor and highly contextual art-piece in his latest work, Because When We Say Nat It Be Writ Large (BWWSNIBWL). In the original style of concrete poetry...
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