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Adeeba Shahid Talukder

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Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet, translator, and singer. She is the author of What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press, 2018) and her debut collection, Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved (Tupelo Press, 2020), is a winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize.

Her poetry has appeared in Poem-A-Day, Glass, Gulf Coast, Meridian, and The Margins, and her translations in PBS Frontline and Words Without Borders.

Adeeba holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan and an Emerging Poets fellowship from Poets House.

Below is the film trailer for An American Prayer, featuring “A Song For My Nation”

Arhm Choi Wild

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Arhm Choi Wild is a queer, Korean-American poet who grew up in the slam community of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and went on to perform across the country, including at Brave New Voices, the New York City Poetry Festival, and Asheville Wordfest. Their debut book of poems, CUT TO BLOOM, was the winner of the 2019 Write Bloody Book Contest. Arhm is a Kundiman fellow with an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize in 2019. They have been anthologized in Daring to Repair by Wising Up Press and The Queer Movement Anthology of Literatures, and their work appears in Barrow Street, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Split this Rock, and other publications. They work as the Director of the Progressive Teaching Institute and as a Diversity Coordinator at a school in New York City.

Are You Laying Down Artistic Roots?

February 11, 2021 By Brainard Carey Leave a Comment

There has never been a better time to find your next opportunity. Seize this moment and make it work for you. There are countless ways to further your art practice and career at any given moment if only you know where to look. Expect rejection but do not allow that to deter you – keep moving forward until you find it. Below are three opportunities to get you started:

Flash opportunity: Roots and Seeds is an international open call to artists whose work sits at the intersection of art and science. There are two types of residency, artwork production, and research. Both are intended for artists who address the biodiversity crisis in the botanic world and artists must be willing to collaborate with science professionals and/or institutions. Visit the website for more information. Deadline for applications is February 15.

Animafest Cypress announces an open call for its 20th annual animation film festival. Artists are invited to submit their non-commercial animated work for consideration in this international competition. For more information, visit the website. Deadline for submissions is February 28.

Emerging artists are invited to submit their work for consideration in the Laderman Ukeles Biennial. A bit of background:

“In 1969 US-American artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles found herself plunged into the role of an unpaid reproductive worker following the birth of her first child. “I felt l ike two separate people… the free artist and the mother/maintenance worker…. I was never working so hard in my whole life, trying to keep together the two people I had become. Yet people said to me, when they saw me pushing my baby carriage, Do you do anything?”

In reaction, Laderman Ukeles created what she called Maintenance Art as well as penning her manifesto. This year’s biennial is a reaction to Maintenance Art and emphasizes art created in the artists’ local area that strengthens social responsibility, sustainability and conserves natural resources. Visit the website to learn more. Deadline for proposals is February 28.

Praxis Center nurtures artists every step of the way. We understand that a career in art is more than a full-time job, it is a lifestyle and in order to be successful one must devote a great deal of time and effort. When you choose a Praxis membership, you choose the guidance of experts and the camaraderie of a community of artists just like you who understand the road you have chosen to travel. Make this the day you decide to take your art to the next level.

Brainard Carey is an author, artist and educator. He is the director of Praxis for Aesthetics. He has written six books for artists; Making it in the Art World, New Markets for Artists, The Art World Demystified, Fund Your Dreams Like a Creative Genius, Sell Online Like a Creative Genius, and Succeed with Social Media Like a Creative Genius.

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Mark Jason Weston

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Mark Jason Weston was born in Jamaica, and now lives and works in Philadelphia.

He studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Central Connecticut State University, and has had poetry published in various American and UK literary magazines.

Brian Curtin

February 9, 2021 By Brainard Carey Leave a Comment

Brian Curtin is an Irish-born art writer, lecturer, and curator of contemporary art. He has been based in Bangkok since 2000 where he lectures in the Department of Communication Design at Chulalongkorn University.

Brian’s work explores dialogues between contemporary art, Queer theories and studies in visual and material cultures. His commentary, essays, interviews and reviews have been published in Art Journal, Artforum, Art Asia Pacific, Circa, Craft Research, Flash Art, Frieze, Journal of Curatorial Studies and Parachute, amongst others. Brian’s monograph Essential Desires: Contemporary Art in Thailand will be published by Reaktion Books in June 2021.

Research work addresses challenges in thinking through hierarchies and antagonisms that limit critical approaches to modern and contemporary art; and published essays in this respect explore the art-historical marginalizing of ‘decoration’ and also problems of national identity as a frame for recent art. Brian has presented at conferences and symposia in Kuala Lumpur, Kyoto, London and Singapore. And has held writer’s residencies in Beijing and Kuala Lumpur.