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Week 25: Your Digital Home:
Why Your Artist Website Must Evolve With Your Vision For any artist striking out on their own, the to-do list is endless. But in a world saturated with content, one item is non-negotiable: your…
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Week 24: Agency, Art, and a Clear Vision
Work it, Sis Lately, I’ve been meditating on the concept of agency—specifically, the power we have to make intentional choices about our labor to gain access to the things we want in and out…
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Week 23: The Next Chapter
Announcing ‘Myth & Marrow’ and Major Moves for Labor Pains Hello everyone, It’s been a whirlwind two weeks since my last update, and I am so excited to reconnect with you all. After the…
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Week 22 Update: The Second Trimester
Tending to a Pregnant Dragon The project is called Labor Pains, and at Week 22, the name feels more apt than ever. I am deep in the second trimester of this work—the second phase…
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It Wasn’t Me, It Was This Place
Some days in the archives are a quiet, methodical sifting through paper. Other days, the history rises off the page and grabs you. Today was one of those days. I’m deep into my research…
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Week 21: Phase-In Failure
With low registration numbers and a last minute reschedule, I wasn’t sure what to expect at yesterday’s first workshop… 😅 Learning to Build Trust (and Workshops) in Arbor Hill No one showed up! And…
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Day One: The Unexpected Activist in the Archives
On July 8, 1984, a call about a “man going berserk” echoed from Arbor Hill to the Albany Police Department. When officers arrived, they claimed Jessie Davis, a 35-year-old Black man, lunged at them…
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