Superheroes are Real. They live among us…sometimes they are Us. They do what is right at any cost, and they do what we are scared to do even in the face of insurmountable odds. Everyday Heroes presents the various ways that these guardians become symbols embodying the personal mythologies of those who love them.
Join us for a lively walkthrough and conversation with curators and artists involved in A Little Bit of Everything, broadcast live via zoom. Experience fashion at NIAD from the comfort of virtual space!
On Friday, July 29th, DJ Surface Tension invites KALX listeners to tune in to an ear-opening conversation with the "sounding artists" of NIAD Art Center as they discuss their most recent release Sounding Artists R Sweet and So R You. Featured in this conversation are artists Luis Estrada, Christian Vassel, and Raven Harper. This studio compilation captures the rawness of NIAD's community artists at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recorded in early 2020 over the phone and in zoom, the outcome is equal parts poignant, hilarious, beautiful and boundary-pushing. Sounding Artists R Sweet and So R You is a sonic answer to the age old question: what is music? Find the Read More ...
After a long hiatus, NIAD's artist-designers are bursting at the seams with bold and boundary-pushing fiber and fashion creations. See it all in motion on the NIAD runway in the culminating event of "A Little Bit of Everything." The title says it all.
When I look at these artworks, I see their existence and how they feel as living forces; some elements remain as independent organisms where forms play out their own life; unpredictably relating to and through the viewer’s experience.
NIAD artist Luis Estrada and Visionaries and Voices artist Tyler Spohn will discuss their practices and work at progressive art studios. Estrada and Spohn are exhibiting artists in Not Quite Fatal at Wave Pool Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Exhibition Curator and NIAD facilitator Chelsea Smith will be in attendance as well.
Art is as much community as it is individual. We are shaped by those we love and those who love and have loved us. Love and community are intergenerationally woven into us all. Deatra Colbert and Maria Radilla’s work both speak to the ways in which we look to community as inspiration for voicing our own personal experience in this world.
