Artists Ajara Alghali and Patrick Quarm discuss what their West African heritage teaches them about themselves, their community, and their art.

References

• Sierra Afrique
• Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
• National Dance Company of Sierra Leone
• The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD)
• Temate African Dance Arts
• Eye of the Beholder, Patrick Quarm (2020)
• This Mirror Reflects Your Truest Self film
• NXTHVN 
• Larry Ossei-Mensah

Faina Lerman and Scott Vincent Campbell dismantle the idea of being full-time artists and emphasize manifesting a life full of creativity, particularly in Detroit, instead. 

References

• Popps Packing
• Robert David 
• Momm and Popp Residency For Parent Artists
• The Sustainable Arts Foundation
• Matthew Eaton
• Wedge 1, 2016
• M Contemporary Art
• Grant Czuj
• LaKela Brown

Artist Ian Kuali'i and poet Jessica Care Moore discuss where to draw the line between cultural admiration and cultural appropriation and consider if gatekeeping is even worth Find links to key materials discussed below and check out win.gs/subjectmatters for the transcript.

References:

• Doze Green of Rock Steady Crew
• Cherokee Advocate printing press returns to Cherokee Nation
• Land Acknowledgements
• Felicia Garcia, curator of education at the Indian Arts Research Center (IARC)
• Kuleana
• It’s Time to Acknowledge Native Hawaiians' Special Right To Housing
• Donate to KAHEA 
• Donate to Pu’uhonua O Waianae houseless village
• Donate to Protect Mauna Kea
• Black Women Rock
• Moore Black Press
• Ras Baraka
• Saul Williams
• Amiri Baraka
• Sonia Sanchez
• Lucille Clifton
• Audre Lorde
• Gil Scott Heron
• Alphonso Cox
• Assata Shakur 
• Dr. Brenda Greene
• The National Black Writers Conference (NBWC) 
• Heard Museum 
• MONUMENT/PILLAR
• Radcliffe Bailey
• Atlantic Center for the Arts
• Nikki Giovanni
• T.S. Eliot
• Walt Whitman
• Robert Frost
• Where Are The People? A poetry mini film by jessica Care moore
• We Want Our Bodies Back
• Third Man Records
• Source Booksellers
• Q’s Kitchen
• Concert of Colors
• Qasim Basir
• Marvin Towns Jr.