Bill Frakes: Visual Storyteller
BILL FRAKES is a visual storyteller working in both still photography and video. He started his photography career at the Miami Herald (1979 to 1992), and then moved to Sports Illustrated. He currently directs music videos and television ads.
Read MoreBeatriz Chachamovits: Environmental Artist
Introduction to Beatriz Chachamovits. 5:52 min. Interview: Raymond Elman. Post-Production: Lee Skye. Recorded via...
Read MoreRichard 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.
Read MoreHeidi 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.”
Read MoreAllen 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.
Read MoreArtist 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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