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A Quick Look At Art&Seek’s Reporting

• The internet is full of painters, quilters, woodcarvers, knitters – all of them selling their custom goods on their websites or on marketplaces like Etsy. But how many make a full-time living at it? In this week’s Art&Seek Artist Spotlight, Jerome Weeks tracks down a premium leather goods maker in North Texas – who recently found himself facing that very question.

Work from the Stewpot 2018 art show “Picturing Homelessness.”

• The Stewpot in Downtown Dallas is best known for providing services to clients experiencing homelessness. For decades, the organization has also run a weekly club for kids whose families may be at risk for homelessness. Raphael Dominguez works with those kids. In State of the Arts, KERA’s Anne Bothwell, talked with him about using art to navigate heavy topics.

What Else You’ve Got To Know

The “Trumpster” popped up in Denton on Jan. 8, 2017.
Photo: Eric Mancini

• Denton artist behind the ‘Trumpster’ calls it ‘a big joke, just like his presidency’ (Guide Live)
• Moisés Kaufman Coming to UNT (TheaterJones)
• Perry Stewart, former Star-Telegram theater critic, dies at age 75 (Star-Telegram)
• Fort Worth’s most prized arts competition moves next edition to Dallas (Culture Map Dallas)
• Marfa Contemporary to Close Its Doors (ArtForum)
• 10 Dallas Portrait Photographers You Should Be Following (Dallas Observer)
• Tulsa Artist Fellowship Now Accepting 2019 Applications, Award Includes Live/Work Space and $20,000 Stipend (Hyperllergic)

What We’re Reading

Stevie Wonder via medium.com.

• How Stevie Wonder Helped Create Martin Luther King Day (Cuepoint)
• This New York Gallery Has An Unusual Age Limit: No Artists Younger Than 60 (NPR)
• Portrait Of: Eddie Palmieri (Latino USA)
• At Craighead Green, Landscapes Are Gateways (Dallas Observer)
• When did big music festival lineups get so … boring? (Guide Live)
• First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone at the Nasher (Arts+Culture)
• The Disneyland of Detroit (Pacific Standard)

What We’re Listening To

• Tune-Yards: ‘The shared experience of music is sacred’ (The Guardian)

• “Rumorosa” – Matthew McNeal (Central Track)

• Jack White Makes a Huge Return After Four Years With Two New Songs (Esquire)

• A Dynamic Duo: Partnership Between Musicians And Public Land Agencies Inspires ‘Music For Nature’ (Utah Public Radio)

What We’re Looking At

PBS’ ‘Victoria’

• The Woman Behind The Woman Who Defined An Era (Art&Seek)

• Keeping Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Alive  (Great Big Story)

Never Goin’ Back

• A Dallas Director Takes Sundance (Art&Seek)

• At This Harlem Apartment, Live Jazz Every Sunday (Great Big Story)

Photo Of The Week 

Congratulations to @chigby77 of Dallas, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest for her photo “Creepy Old Toys.” To learn how to enter the contest and to see past winners visit artandseek.org.

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