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Art director Josué Castilleja begins designing program logos each fall, nearly a year in advance.
My first impression of the Idaho gearmaking community was that it was mostly men isolated from each other by the vast geography of the fourteenth largest and fourteenth least populated state.
Driftwood was born as James Morris on June 20, 1907, in Timbo, Arkansas.
Their crafts, passed down through generations, seemed to me to be not only a set of skills but a type of historical knowledge.
The Smithsonian invites local teenagers to present and celebrate contemporary American teen culture at the 2025 Festival.
In the orchestral field, only 2.1 percent of players are Black. The Alliance of Black Orchestral Percussionists seeks to change this.
“As a person who’s Deaf and Indigenous, my goal is to teach interpreters how to sign the way an Indigenous person would sign.”
The group range in age from fourteen to nineteen. Most of them play multiple instruments, and all of them sing.
As a member of Generation X, I feel the need to establish a little youth-adjacent credibility before I can answer this question.
These artists interpret the stories of the Qur’an to apply them to modern life, meet differences in beliefs with compassion, and work to create safe and welcoming spaces for their communities.
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