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Art that invites you to look a little closer. 🎨

This #TempleMadeTUesday, we’re spotlighting Richelle Kota, CLA ’18, one of the talented #TempleMade artists joining this year’s Tyler Art Market.

Richelle creates thought-provoking visual art exploring culture, identity, isolation and politics, with works available as prints, stickers and postcards. She’s also a writer, educator and creative professional offering consulting, arts workshops and more.

Look for Richelle and her work at the Tyler Art Market during Homecoming & Family Weekend 2026!

🔗 Learn more about this year’s featured artists at the link in our bio.

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"The internet is the court, and the unknowing victims with disabilities are the jesters."

"Confessions of a Recovering Court Jester" is an article by Richelle Kota, in Vol 04. It traces the court jester from the historical role, chosen at random for size or voice or vibe, to the friend kept around as entertainment, to the harassment economies now running on the same logic.

Richelle is a queer Liberian refugee, researcher, writer, interdisciplinary visual artist and arts educator in Philadelphia, whose work expands around themes of culture, identity and politics through the personal.

Read it in full at www.ave-astra.org
Accepting submissions now for Vol 5 (updated deadline Sep 25). "Confessions of a Recovering Court Jester: The Historic and Cultural Relevance of Autism Spectrum Disorder and its Misunderstandings" by Richelle Kota. Featured in Ave Astra's Volume 4.

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Polaroids from 8/23 @ almost famous 📸📸
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@analog_loversclub @rasasavda
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Grateful 4 y’all !!!

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Ave Astra: Volume IV. July 2026.

Last August this was an invitation. Four volumes later it is writers and artists in Philadelphia, Memphis, Ashgabat, New Jersey, Florida, southern California, and further out still.

Twelve pieces on illness, diagnosis, masking, inheritance, and what gets left in the room after. Poetry, narrative, research, illustration. Read what they brought at: ave-astra.org

Global submsisions accepted year-round. Cover on a warm amber-to-black gradient. "THE FOURTH VOLUME" above the title "AVE ASTRA." Smaller text reads "EST. 2025," "JUL 2026," "DISABILITY AND NEURODIVERGENT LIFE," "THE FIRST FULL ORBIT," and "IV / VOLUME."

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Go see OPEN at @thegalleryatfabriq !! So happy to be a part of this show! One of my most favorite pieces I’m so happy to have it on display for a while 🥳

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"I never understood humbling myself in front of a god that was supposed to already love me unconditionally, but I arched my back in silence just like everyone else and waited for the love of jesus christ to fill me."

"No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross: Growing Up With Religion As My Third Parent" is a personal essay about my fraught relationship with religion and a @sufjan cover that reminded me of a past I'm working so hard to forget.

Out Now on @substack
Link in bioooooooo

#substack #personalessay #Blackwriters #LGBTQ

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I got to vend at @fahertybrand Walnut again for International Women’s Day! Worked my shift and had my lovely helpers run the table. Such a great time and always appreciate the opportunity :)

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The reception for Smallworks at @fwsgallery was amazing. So much fun to see all the work and I’m so happy for a venue to show my tiny pieces including this new one. Also got to be in it with @richelle.work which is so exciting!

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my heart is FULL. I am so beyond proud of my bestie @tiracooks for debuting 13 INCREDIBLE looks that she dreamed up and created with her own two hands. I was in awe at the pieces she made and the models brought her visions to lifeeee. Feeling so happy and blessed to have such amazing people in my life 🥹🥹💜💜

thank you @richelle.work for buying my book and allowing me to sign my first autograph as a published poet

thank you @che_rainbow33 for gifting me a beautiful necklace and being the most wonderful friend i could have asked for

i love love ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️

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The Kardashians, White Lotus, and Toxic Long-Term Friendships: When Art Imitates Pop Culture Which Imitates Life was originally published in “Progress Reports: March 2025” on April 3, 2025.

It’s an exploration of how companionship and competition coexist. Now on Substack.

Link in bio 🔗

#heatedrivalry #kardashians #skims #writercommunity

@substack

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The show is open until the 28th so if you’re in the Germantown area stop by. I plan on visiting the gallery again so I can properly digest all of the amazing work in the space. So much talent displayed here, it’s an overwhelming experience. Congratulations again to all the fellows. ❤️⭐️🎉✨

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One of my favorite pieces up at @ubuntufineart for @muralarts !! Congratulations to everyone else in my cohort on the amazing work, so proud of us! Grateful to have my friends there with me as well!

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