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Internal Growth, Art, and Identity
Seattle artist AMAI on navigating her personal transformation, motherhood, identity, and a calling to help others take their journey of internal growth.
 • Beverly Aarons
33:48
The Inheritance Beneath Your Creative Work
What if the most powerful meanings in your work are the ones you didn’t consciously place there?
 • Beverly Aarons
Shaped in Black Clay, Forged in Memory, Resistance, and Renewal
Black Clay, reclaimed ceramic practice as an ontological intervention, restoring clay from a purely utilitarian object to a vessel of lifeforce.
 • Beverly Aarons
Excluded
What would the art world look like if it sustained structurally excluded artists while they are still alive and actively producing work?
 • Beverly Aarons
Portals to Ancestral Memory and Speculative Futures
Part ancestral memory, part fantastical future, the works of thirteen artists serve as cultural portals—resisting assimilation, reimagining tradition…
 • Beverly Aarons
Dark Emotions as Defiance
Should art celebrate the shadow feelings—rage, fear, pain? Artist Gamze Seckin dares to expose the complex emotional terrain of her watercolor women.
 • Beverly Aarons
Eco Art For Change with Carrie Ziegler (Event Audio)
How artists can influence environmental change and encourage sustainable practices in policy and community. A conversation with artist Carrie Ziegler.
 • Beverly Aarons
1:30:17
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