Art, Readings, & Reactions
an annual collaboration w/ArtSpan + Modern Eden
jun.22.17 / other worlds
Danny Thanh Nguyen • NCN • Claire Light • Na’amen Gobert Tilahun (curator)
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june.16.16 / portraits of friends
Jason Bayani • Keith Ekiss • Dean Rader • Brynn Saito • Tess Taylor (curator)
july.2.15 / superhero / curated by Carolyn Cooke
Brynn Saito • Jay Santa Cruz • Ahmunet Jessica Jordon Randall Babtkis • Jason Magabo Perez
june.5.14 / fairy tales: the test of time
Nate Waggoner + Carolyn Ho • Denise Benavides Lucy Tiven • Kwan Booth • Colin Winnette
As part of vitriol 2, QL did a blind, submission-based ekphrastic project:
first selecting two works of visual art and then the writing in response:
Dreaming shadows lie along roots in the courtyard, leaves splaying sunlight into puppet theater. Leaf cutter ants, drying clothes dripping, papaya ripening on their vines.
A few white feathers strewn about the yard. Two dark bloodspots shimmer among them.
Esperanza is crying in her dark cool bedroom. Her abuela is washing lemons in the kitchen. Doña Palacio’s wet hands attract feathers as she heats water for soup.
Isidora hears her daughter crying from her bed in the room by the courtyard. Her head aches, and she nestles her fever further into the pillow, listening to her child weep for a friend.
– “Soup” by Karim Quesada-Khoury
