Contemporary Art Reviews and Interviews

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Mildred Howard

As a working artist for over fifty years, there are a few other important things that I’d like to share with you, to try to set you up for success. For example, I hope that you realize that art is a business…

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Bradley McCallum

I simply knocked on the door and introduced myself and explained that I was a graduate student in the sculpture department at Yale and was working on an artwork that would be a memorial to victims of gun violence.

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Svea Lin Soll

My first real professional mentor was Betty Kano at Pro Arts in Oakland. She was an artist, activist, and force of nature — someone who believed deeply in visibility for underrepresented artists long before that was common institutional language.

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Nanci Amaka

You really get wound together and you're different at the end of it in ways we can't necessarily perceive or calculate. I don't think we have the tools to measure it, but there's definitely a change at the end.

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