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Rage Hug Solidarity, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo in collaboration with Finnegan Shannon, 2025-ongoing On June 23 of this year, leftist activists who protested at an immigrant detention facility in Texas received decades-long sentences as a result of terrorism charges and sentence enhancements, in stark contrast to the fate of right-wing rioters who invaded the US Capitol in January 2021. Connections can be made between these Texas activists and that of the Sozialistisches Patie

Giving Way 2, 2025. Hand-crocheted yarn strips (wool, linen, cotton, synthetic), hand-stitched. approx. 40 x 32 inches Painter and fiber artist Pooja Pittie reflected with me on the natural associations viewers draw from her vibrant abstractions. I live in a city, I grew up in a city, but also, I don't know what it's like to go on these long hikes, climbing mountains or going camping. I have some memories of doing things like that when I was a kid, but I got diagnosed whe

(Edited transcript from the fifth annual hybrid Disabled Artist Symposium, held online and at the Multicultural Center at Illinois State University) BERT: All right. Hello, everybody in the Zoom world and hello everybody at the Multicultural Center here in scenic Normal, Illinois. My name is Bert Stabler, and I'm very happy to announce is our fifth annual Disabled Artists Symposium, happening here and online and I would like to just, before I do anything, offer a few remarks