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Posted by Raymond Elman on May 28, 2023
Richard LeBlond: “Homesick for Nowhere”
RICHARD LEBLOND is a retired field biologist. His essays and photographs have appeared in many U.S. and international journals, including Montreal Review, Weber – The Contemporary West, Lowestoft Chronicle, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Concis, and Trampset. His work has been nominated for “Best American Travel Writing” and “Best of the Net.” His first book, “Homesick for Nowhere,” was published in 2023.
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Posted by Elman + Skye on May 21, 2023
Heidi Paster Harf + Ezra Axelrod Make “Torah Tropical”
HEIDI PASTER HARF is a photographer from Eastern Long Island, who spent the last 15 years photographing daily life in Cali, Colombia, where she lived for two decades. EZRA AXELROD is creative director of ThisTopia, producing Colombian film projects focused on countercultures, regenerative psychoactive plant economies, and social and environmental justice.. Together they made the film “Torah Tropical.”
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Posted by Elman + Skye on May 14, 2023
Allen Klein & Bliss Hebert: A Lifetime of Making Opera
ALLEN CHARLES KLEIN (1938-2023) is the only American designer to have focused his career exclusively to the production of design for the opera stage, and together with BLISS HEBERT as director, has created more than seventy new productions. BLISS HEBERT (b.1930) has staged over three hundred productions of one hundred operas with forty-one different opera companies.
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Posted by Raymond Elman on May 10, 2023
Artist José Bedia
JOSÉ BEDIA (b.1959) was born in La Havana, Cuba. He was a pioneer of the radical transformation of Cuban Art that inaugurated the Exhibition Volumen 1, which Bedia was an integral part of. His passion for the primal Amerindians complemented his anthropological studies on Afro-Transatlantic cultures, studying in depth the faith, believes and religion of the “La Regla Kongo” (in which he was initiated in 1983), the “ Regla de Ocha”, and the Leopard Society of Abakuas, among many others.
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Posted by Elman + Skye on May 5, 2023
Anya Wallace: Artist, Scholar, Curator
ANYA WALLACE is a visual artist, scholar, and community educator. Her artwork and scholarship are shaped by a desire to narrate the lessons and pleasures existent in Black Girlhood. Wallace holds a doctorate in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Penn State University. And studied photographic critical theory and craft at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She is currently the Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellow in Black Feminist Studies at Brandeis University.
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Posted by Elman + Bolivar on Apr 29, 2023
Photographer Alessandro Sarno: From Milano to Miami
Introduction to Alessandro Sarno. 1:19 min. Interview: Raymond Elman. Post-Production: Sophia Bolivar. Music: Ana Camacaro Gomez. Recorded via Zoom. 11/30/2022, Miami. ALESSANDRO SARNO is a Milan based artist who began his journey into photography in 2008 in the Bahamas, where he purchased his first camera. While there, he captured images that documented a transformative personal...
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Posted by Elman + Skye on Apr 23, 2023
Stephanie Doche, Operatic Mezzo-soprano
STEPHANIE DOCHE has rapidly created an important place for herself among today’s rising mezzos. A singing actress of outstanding technical and interpretive skill, Doche (rhymes with posh) has starred in leading roles nationwide, distinguishing herself in diverse styles and repertoire.
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Posted by ArtSpeak Staff on Sep 18, 2017
The BEST Way to Experience ArtSpeak
SEVENTEEN complimentary editions of our Inspicio Arts branded e-Magazine are ready for installation and download to your Apple iPad (preferably) and iPhone from the Apple App Store. The first ArtSpeak branded e-Magazine will be published in November, 2023.
Mission
On 5/26/23, after nine years of publishing as Inspicio Arts, we changed our name to ArtSpeak. The ArtSpeak publishing platform provides an intellectually sophisticated showcase for the most exciting talent within Miami and South Florida’s diverse arts communities and serves as a bridge between arts journalism and academia by blending experienced writers, designers, photographers, and digital technologists with FIU students, faculty, and professional staff.
e-Magazine
SEVENTEEN complimentary editions of the Inspicio Arts e-Magazine are ready for installation and download to your Apple iPad (preferably) and iPhone from the Apple App Store. The first ArtSpeak branded e-Magazine (Volume 9, Number 2) will be published in the Fall of 2023.
TO INSTALL THE APP
From your iPad desktop or iPhone desktop, tap on the App Store icon. Search for “inspicio” in the App Store and follow instructions.
DigitalCommons Archive
All 17 of the Inspicio Arts e-Magazines and the ArtSpeak website have been tagged and archived by the FIU Library System in DigitalCommons. The first ArtSpeak branded e-Magazine (Volume 9, Number 2) will be archived in the Fall of 2023. DigitalCommons is a hosted open access institutional repository and publishing archive, combining traditional institutional repository functionality with tools for journal publishing, conference management, and multimedia. Content published to Digital Commons institutional repositories is optimized for indexing by Google, Google Scholar, and other major search engines.