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Art & Design
“The arts need to talk about climate change,” Monica Jahan Bose says.
Look closely and you can track these two artists across the D.C. landscape.
“My day job is that I’m a studio photographer. It is very tedious and very OCD. So, photography on the Metro is something very different. Life comes at you really quick.”
Elizabeth LaPensée (Anishinaabe, Métis, and a little Irish) creates video games inspired by her indigenous heritage to help heal intergenerational trauma.
Mamoni Chitrakar started singing. I held my breath. We were watching the unveiling of a traditional painted scroll called patachitra, months in the making.
For many traditional Tibetan artists, to paint a deity is an act of worship.
In an office full of folklorists, picking a valentine is work-related.
It’s no coincidence that all of Sarah Jamison’s recent drawings are the size of an iPhone 6s Plus screen.
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