Visual arts


Mahnaz Badihian: Rebel Poet, Painter, Translator 3

Mahnaz Badihian is an Iranian poet and painter whose work reflects ideas of immigrants and exiles, women’s issues, poverty, struggles for justice and, of course, love.  An award-winning poet and author of two poetry collections, and a recording of Rumi poems with her own translations with the poems read by […]


Freedom, Responsibility and Artists 4

I entered Grace cathedral on Saturday   with its three-story high arched Anglican ceilings, its neon lit Jacob’s ladder, “Jacob’s Dream A Luminous Path” created by Grace Cathedral 2016 Artists’ in Residence, Benjamin Bergery and Jim Campbell along with traditional stained-glass windows and saint depictions, to sit in the quiet […]


Defining Artists 6

When does a person become an artist and not simply a person who at times creates art? In music it requires a certain attainment of skills to simply play music and then the line is formed as professional or an amateur musician, lines that do not necessarily reflect on one’s […]


Interviewing the Caribbean: Vision and Language Meet at the Crossroads 1

If you go to any bookstore, independent or chain, it will seem as if you are inundated with magazine choices.  But often the best magazines cannot be found on those shelves.  Caribbean Interview is an important magazine that needs to read, looked at and enjoyed with its mix of visual […]