Posted By Kelly Merka Nelson on Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 12:02 PM click image Kellen Stanley via Instagram / bluestarart Blue Star Contemporary teased the CAM Kickoff with an enigmatic photo by Kellen Stanley, who collaborated with Xavier Gilmore on AnOriginal Drive. After being interrupted by the onset of COVID-19 cancellations and closures in 2020, Contemporary Art Month is returning for 2021 with pandemic safety in mind. On Friday, CAM hits the ground running with a drive-in event held in Artpace s parking lot. The annual CAM Kickoff will feature a screening of the 2021 CAM Perennial exhibition Here, the rivers run both ways and a live performance of Xavier Gilmore s AnOriginal Drive, a multidisciplinary work created in collaboration with Andrea Voca
there for three generations are really french. they don t look french. they re not real french. but we don t have that problem. however much we think we have a problem with mexican immigration. we re not an ethnicity. what holds us together? a belief in the ideals. the constitutional. it s taking on a kind of sacred quality in our eyes. even though people don t read it, they still feel it has a sacred quality and i think it s we go back to them. the way lincoln said we ought to. that they are flesh of our flesh. blood of our blood. because he drew inspiration from them. all honor to jefferson, he said, when he s talking about equality. he felt this connection that i think we continue to feel. people ask me questions like, you know, what would george washington think of the invasion of iraq? i mean, people don t other other countries don t do that. people don t ask what would charlemain say? yeah. william pitt, they don t have that kind of connection to the past. as
this was a rebellion of slaves who slaughtered the white masters. it was impossible for a southern dominated one to recognize that. but john adams did send a console. yeah, but we didn t diplomatically recognize it. the federalists were very keen on having relations with the haitian government. again, the federalists have come up in the eyes of scholars over the last 20 years, through much of our history, through the 20th century. it s the jeffersonian who dominated scholarly attitudes. they were the party of the democrats and they were the party of the small farmers and so on. and the federalists were a bunch of aristocrats. now recently because of the development of anti-slave feeling, and women s movement, people like hamilton and many of the federalists are much more liberal on these issues than the southern dominated jeffersonian republicans. so they have recovered some of the press that they lost through the first half of the 20th century. the rural vote has come