Art & Design|How Plywood From Last Yearâs Protests Became Art
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Tanda Francis in her studio, working on her sculpture “RockIt Black,” which was installed in Queensbridge Park in New York this month.Credit.Ike Edeani for The New York Times
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How Plywood From Last Yearâs Protests Became Art
During the George Floyd marches last year, businesses boarded up. This year, hundreds of those boards will be displayed in exhibitions in Minneapolis, New York and Chicago.
Tanda Francis in her studio, working on her sculpture “RockIt Black,” which was installed in Queensbridge Park in New York this month.Credit.Ike Edeani for The New York Times
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By Travis Young
Congratulations on the launch of Film Xchange! What was the inspiration behind this project? Film Xchange (Filmx) was inspired by my personal love of film and what it did for my mental health. I was struggling with depression my whole life, and it went unchecked for an extremely long time. I started going to therapy after my second suicide attempt, when I was 28. My therapist recommended that I try journaling to help me be more present in my life. I didn’t have the verbiage or understanding to talk about my emotions, so I used a camera as a way to journal anytime I thought I felt an emotion. But I realized that looking at the back of a digital camera took me out of the actual moment, so I switched over to film. When I started developing and scanning the images myself, it allowed me to start a conversation with myself and actively participate in my own life instead of just watching it go by. I wanted to share that feeling with others and give people the opportunity
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B is for Bob T-shirt. Photo courtesy of Anchors-n-Asteroids.
The mother-daughter-duo behind Los Angeles’s Anchors-n-Asteroids have released a delightful series of eco-friendly shirts (made from post-consumer plastic bottles) featuring 10-year-old Pearl’s drawings of famous figures, many of them artists. Just try and resist the call of more-popular-than-ever Bob Ross and his bursting afro on this design.
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This 13.7 t-shirt represents the 13.7 percent of living artists represented by galleries in Europe and North America who are women. Photo courtesy of Art Girl Rising.
The latest offering from Art Girl Rising, which has long offered a line of black t-shirts listing the names of deserving women artists in crisp white type, is a plain t-shirt that reads “13.7.” That’s the percentage of living artists represented by European and North American galleries that are women a great conversation-starter for your favorite art-world feminist.
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