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Crystal McKenzie: A Design Pioneer, Still One Step Ahead of the Pack
by Atim Annette Oton This year as I come back to Huffington Post Black Voices with a regular monthly posting, I took time off to conceive a project, The Creative Side Fashion and Design Incubator, and return to blogging to look at pioneers in the design industry and emerging designers across the African Disapora. The Design Talks…
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Guilt and Shame in the path of Artists and Designers
by Atim Annette Oton “Guilt is anger directed at ourselves – at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others – at what they did or did not do.” – Peter McWilliams In the last few years of working with artists and designers, I have observed how fear has trapped…
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Johanna Flores, Christine Facella and Andrea Miranda Salas: 9 Designers and Artists I Know
9 Designers and Artists I Know is a 2014 series of stories of nine designers and artists I know and admire as they navigate their world and produce art and design projects that make me want to work even harder. I repeat, I admire their talent, work and spirit. by Atim Annette Oton In my first blog…
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Hollis King, Art Director: 9 Designers and Artists I Know
by Atim Annette Oton 9 Designers and Artists I Know is a 2014 series of stories of nine designers and artists I know and admire as they navigate their world and produce art and design projects that make me want to work even harder. I repeat, I admire their talent, work and spirit. Hollis King,…
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Lessons for 3 Friends: 2014 Resolutions to follow
by Atim Annette Oton The last few weeks of 2013, I decided to write a series of advice posts to 3 friends of mine who spent 2013 in some state of crisis and used fear as their main operator. These 12 posts are simple pieces of advice and may hit some nerves in others who…
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Creating Income as an Artist or Designer
by Atim Annette Oton I woke up early this morning reflecting on how many artists and designers I had worked with over the last five years who came to me with just two or three income streams and they had never really looked beyond the two jobs or three opportunities in the years since they left school. It’s…
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Some Fears that Designers and Artists Need to Dismantle in their Life and Work
By Atim Annette Oton Each month, I encounter artists and designers whose life and work are deeply engaged in fear in ways that even their creative minds can not overcome. I find there are four failures that define what they are experiencing and writing about them is a way to provide a guide and path…
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ART OFF the MAIN at Jacob Javits Center this weekend
ART OFF the MAIN is a trend- setting art fair launched in 2004. The name of the fair, ART OFF the MAIN speaks to the fact that many of the artists showcased, in spite of highly accomplished works, are for the most part either under-represented or absent from the American mainstream. ART OFF the MAIN is…
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Gregory Maqoma’s Exit/Exist debuts in Brooklyn at 651 ARTS
South Africa has been on my mind for a month and as I reflected on the hiatus I took from writing this blog, I recall a promise to visit next year. The month began with an email from my Johannesburg friend Bongani Madando who just returned from Berlin and decided to connect several of us,…
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