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  • stand!

    stand!

    The first planned sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement began in July 1958 in Wichita, Kansas. The goal was the integration of segregated businesses. The movement spread quickly to Oklahoma City. The success of the Oklahoma sit-ins led to sit-ins throughout the South. While North Carolina is known for the contentious sit-ins in 1960 in…

  • sight does not equal vision

    sight does not equal vision

    Back in the fall of 2022 I received an invitation from a photography organization I’d never heard of called FotoFocus. It was surprising to me that I didn’t know anything about since I’ve been following photography magazines and blogs closely for the past 37 years. FotoFocus hosts a biennial which they describes as follows “the…

  • Charlie Glass and the mystery woman.

    Charlie Glass and the mystery woman.

    I didn’t know who the lady beside Charlie Glass was when I put this piece up in Moab, UT in October of this year. When Mary Langworthy of Moab Museum presented me with several photos of Charlie (included below), I gravitated to the image of him above because it shows 2 handsome and stylishly dressed…

  • junaluska

    junaluska

    The Junaluska community in Boone, North Carolina is one of the earliest African American communities in western North Carolina.  “According to census records from 1850 Johnson Cuzzins (also spelled Cuzzens and Cousins) was a 44 year old farmer with a white wife named Charlotta (1). Johnson and Charlotta had nine children ranging from three months to eighteen…

  • combining elements 1

    combining elements 1

    water Anyone who has spent time in the southwest knows how precious a resource water is. A Washington Post headline in February of this year announced “Southwest drought is the most extreme in 1200 years” and “The past 22 years rank as the driest period since at least 800 A.D.” The Guardian in November 2021…

  • Tacos La Pasadita

    Tacos La Pasadita

    I spent part of this past week in Green River, Utah as a guest of Epicenter whose mission statement reads “Epicenter stewards creative initiatives that honor the past, strengthen the present, and build the future that we envision alongside our community”. My engagement with Epicenter involved spending time with an extended Mexican family that moved…

  • Native Enslavement in the Southwest

    Native Enslavement in the Southwest

    On June 28, 1865, President Andrew Johnson directed every Indian Agent in the Southwest to conduct a survey to determine persons holding Native American captives as slaves, although they were not at this time asked to free Indian slaves.  When Lafe submitted his list of Indian captives to Colorado Governor John Evan on July 17,…

  • Pandemic Chronicles

    Pandemic Chronicles

    I spent the early part of the pandemic (April to August), collaborating with poets Esther Belin, Jess X. Snow, Ursula Rucker, Mahogany L. Brown and Olmeca and visual artists Titus Brooks Heagins and André Leon Gray to create an online zine we call “Pandemic Chronicles, Volume 1.” We received contributions from Thea Gahr, Jayden Fields…

  • american rent is due

    american rent is due

    Having fallen into a state of disrepair on a highway heavily used by motorists from the Navajo nation and around the world the Painted Desert Project invited Phoenix based artist Thomas “Breeze” Marcus to assemble a crew of artists to envision the space differently.

  • 4 meditations on a changing environment

    4 meditations on a changing environment

    Four Meditations on a Changing Climate The first image is a portrait of 2 shrubs that were scorched recently in a brush fire near my home.  Scientific models project more fires nationwide (worldwide actually), as temperatures increase creating more kindling for big fires.

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