by Talented Artists from around Madison | September 26, 2020 | Feature
Stolen by Shiloah Symone Coley created on the Overture Center for the Arts building “I’ve always been fascinated with people’s stories. Historically, heroic efforts have been made to create positive representations of Black bodies to counteract the surplus of harmful...
by Daniella Echeverría | September 25, 2020 | Feature
It took 8 minutes and 46 seconds for Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin to murder George Floyd on May 25. We all have witnessed the protests that followed, including in Madison. The city asked me to paint a mural on the boards that had been used to protect the...
by Yvette L. Craig | September 25, 2020 | Publishers Note
Art and protest have often gone hand in hand. They do more than just evoke likes on someone’s social media feed or catch the eye of a passersby. Murals have been the primary artistic response to the outrage over police brutality and racism. The street art inspired by...
by Yvette L. Craig | September 25, 2020 | Feature
A potent mixture of raw emotions, empowering vision, and colorful paint has resulted in some powerful protest art along Madison’s iconic State Street, lifting a number of African American artists out of cultural isolation in the process. Artists with social platforms...
by Comfort Wasikhongo | September 25, 2020 | Cover Artwork
Cover Art:Comfort Wasikhongo
