‘Arts’ Archives
Blooming Together!
Semilla Teaching Artists Angela Barrera and Sarah Schulz trained and led 13 neighborhood youth in creating a very large mural on the corner of 26th St. and 15th Ave. S., teaching them mosaic skills, picking up litter, creating a poetry ‘zine with Patrick Cabello Hansel, and teaching them leadership skills in our Young Leader program. Photos by Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts By BART BUCH, Director of Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts This summer Semilla has been busy creating peace through beauty on and around Bloomington Avenue South in the Midtown Phillips neighborhood, our home. Last summer our theme was “Together/Juntos,” as coming together again after being separated from the pandemic was thrilling. This year we take that theme a step further with “Blooming Together.” We hope to reflect and create a wave of new togetherness, with us each trying to bloom anew. You are going to see quite a few flowers in the work that is going on, and amongst this [...]
Billboard
“Fragility vs. strength. Who is strong, who is fragile? Who is in greatest danger? In crisis, how do we retain our humanity if we have power or if we do not?” – Constanza Carballo Billboards for Justice selected the Families Belong Together art piece for the billboard on top of Cup Foods at George Floyd Square at E. 38th St and Chicago. The piece is by local artist Constanza Carballo and collaborating artist Kenneth Rivera. Constanza came to the Phillips Community from Argentina as a young child. She is now a nurse at the Community-University Health Care Center. Photo credit: Magdalena Kaluza
Movie Corner – Vengeance
Vengeance Focus Features 2022 Mystery/Comedy/ Thriller/ Drama By HOWARD MCQUITTER II ★★★★☆ Well, simply hearing about the film Vengeance without seeing the trailer can easily give the impression the film is like a bum-rush, aimless action film like Bullet Train. However, Vengeance is just the opposite of Bullet Train's reckless adventures. First, Vengeanceis the directorial debut by B.J. Novak (Knocked Up , The Smurfs , Inglourious Basterds ). He is also the screenwriter and principal actor. (Novak is the actor and the writer from The Office.) As the story goes, Ben Manalowitz (BJ. Novak) is a journalist and podcaster in New York City, when one night he gets a frantic call that his “girlfriend" is dead from an overdose. He's puzzled on what "girlfriend" that could be, so he has to scroll through his cellphone to find out who she was. He flies to West Texas to meet Ty Shaw (Boyd Holbrook), the dead woman's brother, who believes his sister Abilene [...]
