The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University recently awarded its twenty-seventh Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to Japanese American artist and documentarian Chinen Aimi. Her winning proposal, Finding Ryukyu, combines text and drawings with 35mm black-and-white photographs to investigate her various histories as a child born on the island of Okinawa, Japan (part of the […]
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Kevin J. Miyazaki: Float
There is an phenomenon where objects can hold meaning and be used as metaphors for storytelling–such is the case of the Japanese glass floats. Kevin J. Miyazaki uses these small pale green universes to mirror his family’s migration across the pacific, each unique and shaped by another, each quietly spectacular, and each having made a […]
Art + Science: Art of Healing: Sandra Klein
The Art + Science features this week are focused on the art of healing – how artists use art and photography to overcome or assist in the curative process. Sandra Klein is a multi-media artist and fine art photographer based in Los Angeles, California. As a conceptual artist, her collective works have a meditative quality […]