Addis Browne is the owner of Roots Collective, hair stylist and mother. We discuss white midwestern understandings of God, Addis' hope for the kind of representation she hopes the next generation has access to and owning your power.
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Get to know Joelle Wellansa Sandfort
Follow Joelle’s artist page on Instagram to see her amazing work: @stack.of.bricks
Check out the Fleabane Gallery (@fleabane_gallery) that Joelle runs and curates out of her garage in Omaha.
Learn more about the Naturalist School and the Poetics of the Wild workshop series that Joelle helps facilitate.
Tune into this upcoming Amplify Arts panel discussion where Joelle will talk about her experiences curating DIY art spaces.
Read MoreWe talk to Artie Mack, artist, deaf/HOH activist, TikTok educator and muse, about All Black Lives Matter and disability accessibility in the BLM movement, and a lot about the afrospiritual art of Artie.
Read MoreIn this episode we chat with nail artist, creative entrepreneur and an important voice in the Omaha/Lincoln community, Imagine Uhlenbrock, about self-expression, self-care, business and Blackness. The Black IDs podcast explores the diverse identities of African diasporic people in the Midwest as a part of the larger creative practice of visual artist Kat Wiese. This interview is a part of a series culminating in an audio visual exhibition at Kiechel Fine Art in April 2022.
Listen to the full episode here. And read the show notes and transcript below.
Read MoreRead the transcript for episode one of the Black ID’s podcast featuring Charlette Harrington. In this interview with, Charlette Harrington, we explore the topic of stereotypes about Black women, relationship to Black culture as a multiracial Black person, and what it was like growing up in a segregated community in Middle America. Broadcasting from Lincoln, NE, this is the first in a series of episodes exploring identity formation and self-presentation. The interviews from this podcast are a part of the broader work of visual artist Kat Wiese as she prepares for a show of paintings and prints featuring the individuals interviewed.
Read MoreThe assertion “all Black” in a country that would blot you out, that would white you out if it was able, that would seek to diminish the beauty of black people, is a radical proclamation and ownership of the thing it would rather you forget. So in these black and white stripes, really it’s all black stripes on white paper; really it’s all Black.
Read Morewhen the sunrise and the sunset look the same: grapplings with death and excellence
Read MoreAfter taking the references images in May, finishing preliminary sketches in June, making a rough draft in July, building a 7 foot panel in August, and FINALLY starting painting and collaging this September, I wanted to write about who and why this new painting is what it is.
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