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Kiini Ibura Salaam is a writer, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. The middle child of five, she grew up in a hardscrabble neighborhood with oak and fig trees, locusts and mosquitoes, cousins and neighbors. Kiini's work delves into spheres of human liberation, human connection, and evolution. She employs speculative fiction and creative nonfiction to take readers through mind-bending journeys into the transcendent, the mystical, and the fantastic.
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BlogKIS.listbattling negativity // failure // faith // limitations // Lonnie Holley // suicide // visual art
Vol. 66, The Winding Path
Posted on 7 June 2009
A few weeks back I went to an exhibition called Négritude at Exit Art in New York City. I enjoyed the artwork—specifically some very beautiful photography from Mario Cravo Neto; some intriguing text (to accompany video shorts) and needlework from Wura-Natasha Ogunji; a great collection of album covers in an installation by Xaviera Simmons; and… »
BlogKIS.listartistic process // artmaking // fear of change // jumping in // visual art
Vol. 63, Strokes of Life
Posted on 23 March 2009
Art is a powerful, personal, mysterious force. It can be a modality for healing, an agent of change, a recorder of history, a means for confronting and exploring emotions, and so much more. In my constant search for an artistic expression I can do in my infinitesimal moments of free time, an artistic expression that… »
BlogKIS.listartistic growth // development of art // Jeanne Betancourt // Martin Puryear // Richard Serra // time // visual art
Vol. 59, You Have So Much More Time Than You Realize
Posted on 13 March 2008
Brooklyn, NY We live in a culture that believes in diminishing returns. Everything, it is said, depreciates. When I’m caught up in this hysteria, I try to remember examples that contradict this belief. Fine wines, beloved talismans, inherited furniture, and friendships whose years of association add immeasurably to their value. There are many people around… »
BlogKIS.listApo Funja // Bahia // Brazil // Candomble // Cuba // Dance Africa // Fulbright // Kikuya // orisha // orixa // Oxum // Pagador de Promesas // pagode // Palo Monte // Salvador // Solar do Unhao // travel // Ugandan dance // visual art // Yoruba
Vol. 21, In Brazil: Candomble and Visual Arts
Posted on 6 March 2002
Salvador, Bahia Brazil My latest discovery in the hand-washing clothes saga is, despite Salvador’s heat, anything I want to dry properly must be hung directly in the sunshine. During my second go-round with clothes washing, I hung all my clothing at one time. Since line space was limited, I hung half my clothes in the… »
BlogKIS.listacceptance // Basquiat // Bronx Museum of Art // Carl Hancock Rux // Carlos Esteves // commodity // context in art // Culture // Dario Robleto // Fernando Rodriguez // Francisco de la Cal // hip hop // interpreting art // Keith Haring // kiini // Kiini Ibura Salaam // Kori Newkirk // Mel Chin // One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art // value of art // visual art // Whitney // Won't be no Black Male show today
Vol. 14, Visual Art
Posted on 12 December 2001
Bronx Museum of the Arts Bronx, NY Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary (which is the only dictionary I can get my hand on at the moment) defines “art” as: 1. Creative or imaginative activity, esp. the expressive arrangement of elements within a medium 2. Works, as paintings, that result from this creativity. Now it’s intriguing… »