Originally posted as part of the Emerging Arts Professionals - Bay Area, Spring 2011 Blog Salon. “In a capitalist system, culture is an object of control.” – Todd Lester – Founder, www.freedimensional.org It’s 3am. I just got off the phone with a friend of mine – a talented visual artist –...

Originally posted as part of the Emerging Arts Professionals - Bay Area, Spring 2011 Blog Salon. “Katrina played a big part in spreading bounce… We were displaced all over the world.  People were trying to find bounce music like it was a drug.” ~ Big Freedia (on Late Night...

Originally posted as part of the Emerging Arts Professionals - Bay Area, Spring 2011 Blog Salon. “Our communities need to see our artists doing their art.” ~ Senay Dennis (aka Refa 1) As a transplant from New York (8 years and counting), I have come to expect the performing...