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Why do people trust museums? In a time of deep polarization, museums remain among the most trusted institutions in America.

In the final episode of Race/Remix Season 2 (link in bio), co-hosts Jennifer Saracino and Sama Alshaibi talk with Rujeko Hockley @rjkhckly curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Their conversation illuminates...

🏛️ How museums shape the future—not just preserve the past
👩🏾‍🎨 The curator’s responsibility to communities and representation
💗 Why controversy can spark growth and transformation

Listen to Episode 12 “Curating the Future” now—available everywhere you get your podcasts.

#RaceRemix #RujekoHockley #ArizonaArts #WhitneyMuseum #ArtCuration #CuratingTheFuture #Curator #Museum #ContemporaryArt #Podcast by @uazraceremix

Is art political? In Episode 11 of Race/Remix, artist Hank Willis Thomas @hankwillisthomas dives into this provocative question through the lens of his powerful exhibition LOVERULES. Join cohosts Sama Alshaibi and Jennifer Saracino as they explore how Thomas uses collaboration, creativity, and the radical power of love to challenge injustice and spark civic dialogue. LOVERULES can be viewed through June 21, 2025 @uazmuseumofart in partnership with the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.

🖼️ Hank Willis Thomas: LOVERULES
🗓️ now through June 21, 2025
📍 University of Arizona Museum of Art
☑️artmuseum.arizona.edu/loverules

#podcast #arizonaarts #hankwillisthomas #allartispolitical #loverules by @uazraceremix

Race/Remix Ep 10 “Seeing Ourselves in Louis Carlos Bernal’s Photographic Revolution” brings you a conversation with Elizabeth Ferrer sharing her retrospective on Louis Carlos Bernal, a trailblazing Chicano photographer who centered Mexican-American lives and traditions. Listen to this episode made in partnership with the Center for Creative Photography @cntrforcreativephoto featuring Guest hosts Gia Del Pino and Lizzy Guevara. Visit and view the Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva exhibition until March 15, 2025 at the CCP.

#podcast #arizonaarts #latinx #chicanismo #representation #activism #arthistory #identity #chicano #legacy #photography by @uazraceremix

What happens when you tune into Black music? Do you find community, ancestral echoes, and dreams? For musician and creator Michael Mwenso @michaelmwenso, Black music is a pathway to Black joy, self-discovery and healing. In Race/Remix Episode 9 “Ancestral Sounds and the Language of Music,” Michael Mwenso and Semoria Mosley explore how communal listening connects us to the past, present, and future, fostering unity and spiritual growth. Their conversation will change how you experience music. https://azart.fyi/RaceRemix9
Michael Mwenso, bandleader and EMMY-winning creator, creates a space for Black music to uplift and heal communities. Hosted by Semoria Mosley, an artist and MFA student at College of Fine Arts’ School of Art at the University of Arizona. Thanks to the support of our donors, partners and collaborators @arizonaartslive @uarizonaarts @uazschoolofart by @uazraceremix

In Episode 8, “Artists for Educational Justice,” Kim Cosier @cosierkim artist, activist, and educator, offers a thought-provoking perspective: a movement isn’t something that happens on its own. It’s more like a pendulum—requiring a push to swing in any direction. Without a deliberate push, momentum stalls. Every push is an effort to create movement, challenge the status quo, and keep shifting the balance in a cyclical, rather than linear, path to systemic change. @uazschoolofart @uarizonaarts

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“The pendulum doesn’t swing unless we get out in the streets and do the work. It’s not a natural cycle. These are all human-made cycles. And so, I don’t mean to imply that it just is going to happen that way. That’s just the way it happens. Labor unions across this country now are making headway again.

And ever since the 70’s and Reagan smacking down the air traffic controller’s union, this country has been in decline. And the power of unions. What happens is that those folks just push so far over the edge, people can’t take it anymore. And little people like myself and all of us at this table stand up and say “we’re not going to take it anymore.”

And so, Black Lives Matter. That was people just taking it to the streets. I had never felt so hopeful and warm all over. And I was going to communities in Wisconsin … you never would have imagined to see Black Lives Matter signs in people’s yards and things like that. Now that’s kind of backed off again.

So, we have to be vigilant and keep at it. And it’s very much the idea of people coming together to make change.” - Kim Cosier

#kimcosier #arteducation #arteducator #artactivism #pendulum #changemakers by @uazraceremix

Episode 8 of Race/Remix, “Artists for Educational Justice,” explores the powerful role artists play in advocating for educational reform. Kim Cosier, @cosierkim an influential art educator and member of the Art Build Workers network, shares her vision of harnessing creativity for social justice. Link in Bio!

Dr. Kim Cosier is Professor of Art Education in the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and co-founder of the @milwaukee.visionaries.project illuminates how artists can mobilize, collaborate, and transform educational spaces through non-violent art practices. Through personal narratives, she illustrates the importance of embracing the identity of an art worker and the joy found in navigating failure and discomfort in the pursuit of systemic change.

Engage with innovative ideas and strategies for making a meaningful impact in your community. Listen now and continue the conversation!
#podcast #justice #arteducation #activism #racialjustice #artbuild #kimcosier #milwaukeevisionaries #artbulidworkers #arizonaarts by @uazraceremix

In Episode 7, Kayla Farrish @fulloutfarrish shares her fascination with other worlds and alternative paths, drawing inspiration from authors Audre Lorde, Octavia Butler, Toni Morisson, James Baldwin, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal’s “Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders.” Their writings have inspired her recent works, “Martyr’s Fiction” and “Put Away the Fire, dear” where she expresses and shapes her own characters and stories through choreography and embodiment dance. Farrish invites us to witness how art can serve as a bridge to new realities and untold narratives.

Find the Episode link in our bio.

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“Yeah, I really am interested in radical imagination, and I love this poem. At the end of this total work, we’ve navigated through this quartet and duet. I find it’s like playing with different ideas of power and history. And at the end, there’s one person who becomes the reporter and they’re telling us all the news events.

But it’s like, oh, what headlines have happened under the Trump administration that could be both imaginative or real? And what was scary, as we were saying these headlines, even if they were imaginative, they weren't very far from the truth. So, it was this high impact and also trying again to play into the erasure and things that have been happening, created in satire. So, this reporter’s ridiculously cracking and then this person comes out at the end and is reading this poem, which, I was inspired by James Baldwin, actually, and then finding my own words.

Swing low, sweet chariot. That’s the song that’s been there forever. Just imagining turning the trauma that enslaved folks have lived and breaking their backs, creating magic out of hopelessness, turning soil into a nation—such a powerful image, while also saying, we’re still here. Like, you can’t change this. You can’t alter it. This is what happened, but we’re still here.” - Kayla Farrish

#kaylafarrishchoreography #kaylafarrish #uazdance #arizonaarts #audrelorde #tonimorrison #octaviaebutler #jamesbaldwin #swinglowsweetchariot #choreography #racialjustice by @uazraceremix

Congratulations, Ruha Benjamin, for receiving the MacArthur Fellowship! We agree, your work is genius!

Ruha Benjamin visited the University of Arizona in 2023 for the Black Faculty Speaker Series keynote and as a guest on Race/Remix podcast “Episode 1: When Justice Goes Viral”.

#raceremixpodcast #ruhabenjamin #macartherfellow #genius by @uazraceremix

How does one transform trauma into possibility? In Race/Remix Episode 7, Kayla Farrish @fulloutfarrish, trained dancer and multidisciplinary artist, explores police brutality and death afflicting Black communities in America. (link to episodes in our bio)

Through movement research, she finds a radical imagination that powers the African American struggle to do more than survive from enslavement in the colonial era to systemic oppression by modern institutions. Black people have wrought hope and art from trauma. Inspired by this, Farrish lovingly reclaims the Black body’s histories and its representation in contemporary dance collaborations, film, and sound score. She offers performers strategies for challenging traditional dance industry norms.

Kayla Farrish creates captivating works on stage and film that combine dance theater performance, storytelling, and sound score. She is based in New York City and was named “Break Out Star of 2021” by the New York Times. A recent alumna of @uazdance, she has emerged as an artist to watch in the years ahead.

#arizonaarts #podcast #racialjusticestudio #kaylafarrish #choreography #dancerlife #radical by @uazraceremix

Race/Remix Season 2 begins with Episode 7 Kayla Farrish @fulloutfarrish choreographer/filmmaker/photographer in conversation with Duane Cyrus, director @uazdance and Amelia (Amy) Kraehe, associate vice president at Equity in the Arts @uarizonaarts

#raceremix #kaylafarrish #uazdance #uazalumni #choreography #podcast #racialjustice by @uazraceremix

Race/Remix podcast explores the intersections of racial justice and the arts, building knowledge one conversation at a time.

Look out for Episode 7 on Wednesday, Sep 25, 2024 available on all podcast platforms worldwide.

#uarizona #arizonaarts #podcast by @uazraceremix

In Episode 6, Reid Gómez describes how she can “make the story speak” by criss-crossing the boundaries between languages, embracing various linguistic structures and vocabularies simultaneously. Her writing moves away from oppositional colonial frameworks and toward a more fluid poetics of relation. This allows each of us to perceive one another as related rather than separated. (Link in bio)

Dr. Gómez is a writer and scholar from San Francisco, CA. She currently is an assistant professor at the University of Arizona. Her latest writing project, The Web of Differing Versions: Where Africa Ends and America Begins, engages with Silko studies, Indigenous studies and Critical Black studies.

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“I cannot tell you what anything means because your job is to make meaning of it. What I can tell you is every detail. I can make the story speak. And then I have to know what story is needed to speak to this moment. I got it! I get the story. I tell you the story. That’s my power, connecting what story speaks to this moment. What story do I need? I tell the story and all the details. Now you’re the one that’s got to make meaning of it. And so I need to keep all the details. Because what is meaningful to you may not be meaningful to the person that needs the story the next time.” - Reid Gómez

#multilingual #BlackEnglish #Navlish #writer #storytelling #raceremix @uarizonaarts by @uazraceremix