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Sin embraced the power of culture, and today he is a master leather craftsman and visual artist with experience in arts promotion, entrepreneurship, and economic development.
Today, artist Beau McCall—dubbed “The Button Man”—has works, including durags and jackets in museum collections around the world.
Throughout Kyrgyzstan, craftswomen are specializing and strengthening traditional crafts that were nearly forgotten.
These collectives are sanctuaries for Black artists, filled with Black joy, healing, and creativity.
Many in the Black community see Black hair as an art medium. But what is art without an artist?
Despite a long history of lesbian-identifying and trans-masculine individuals who used masculinity for artistic performance, today’s representation of the drag king show arose only in the 1990s.
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