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Art & Design
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Around 20,000 Karen people and other refugees from Burma now live in Minnesota, the largest community of Karen people in the United States.
Muralist Evelyn Morán Cojoc’s work explores themes of regeneration and connection to place.
The artisans create work that is not just handcrafted and rooted in cultural tradition but also distinctively modern in its aesthetic.
For Indigenous artists like McGilton, ancestral knowledge can only be maintained with the intention to uphold and use it within Indigenous communities.
For the Pataxó people, body painting reflects the lived constellations of past and present and of human and more-than-human worlds.
By the time Boxley was born, Tsimshian traditions involving song, art, dance, and regalia had been outlawed or almost forgotten for nearly a century.
Campos often highlights figures from nature and spirituality, infused with Purépecha iconography.
López comes from Santa María Atzompa, a small town cradled between the rolling hills of the Oaxaca Valley of southern Mexico with a rich clay tradition dating back over 3,000 years.
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