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		<title>Featured Artist: Shizu Saldamando</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Precision. Clarity of line. Mood. All of these elements stand out in the portrait work of artist, Shizu Saldamando.  The intense dedication to detail and focused execution of personalities in the moment give each subject a de-objectified identity.  Even with this respect to individuality in her work there is a deep sense of the collective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED ARTIST: Marthalicia Matarrita</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marthalicia Matarrita is a brilliant painter.  Nothing else really needs to be said &#8211; although there is plenty to her story.  Her passion is sparked and sustained by the fundamentals of hip-hop and live painting. However, the depth of her work in texture, mood and content reveals much more. With a family background that includes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Kimsooja</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/12/01/featured-artist-kimsooja/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kimsooja&#8217;s breathtakingly beautiful photo, video and installation work bring movement to meditation and meditation to daily life.  Grounded in a nomadic work philosophy based on life experience, her work reflects a Buddhist way of life - &#8221;detachment from both affection and materialism.&#8221;  However, her work also reflects a unique sensuality. The detachment of the enlightened mind of the Buddha loses none of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED ARTIST: KRISTA FRANKLIN</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/11/01/featured-artist-krista-franklin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Through the poems that I write, I seek to forge a path in the wilderness of the human experience&#8230;&#8221;  &#8211; Krista Franklin
Poet and visual artist Krista Franklin&#8217;s work openly reveals the subjectivity of the processing of human experience.  In some ways it highlights the relevance of the creative process that takes place within all human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED ARTIST: Martha Cooper</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/10/01/featured-artist-martha-cooper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culture exists beyond time and space. It&#8217;s what happens when humans come together to explore and express life in all of its pain, pleasure and duty.  Culture becomes &#8220;urban&#8221; or otherwise labeled, once it gets documented and enters the world of language, description and categorization.  In that vein, Martha Cooper is one of the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED ARTIST: MROC a.k.a. MELO</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/09/02/featured-artist-mroc-aka-melo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicana/Gypsy/Italiano, Los Angeles, under the radar, self-taught, artistic graf phenom, MROC, a.k.a. MELO, is unstoppable.  Precisely because, there is no destination.  Infinite is the mindset and wicked skillz is the stilo.  The work speaks for itself in a familiar language of words, colors and symbols that always touches on the transcendental within human experience.

(Image: Motus Apperendi, 2008 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED ARTIS: LAURI LYONS</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/07/01/featured-artis-lori-lyons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when you ask ordinary people around the world what they think of America? Do we want to know? It’s not so bad actually, at least if you’re not George Bush. Photographer Lauri Lyons latest project, Flag International (2008), documents precisely this question through photography, HD video, audio and hand written text from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Faith47 / South Africa</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/06/01/featured-artist-faith47-south-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is faith? Reality based inspiration, hope in things not seen? Or perhaps active participation in it&#8217;s unfolding. Any way you slice it, the latest work of South African based artist Faith47 paints Mother Nature&#8217;s man-made landscape with an unmistakably passionate reminder of the beautiful power of the human heart. With breathtaking potency the elixir [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Chanel Kennebrew</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/05/01/featured-artist-chanel-kennebrew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 10:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one question at the forefront of America’s public mind right now seems to be: Does race still matter? We see it in the debate over Barack Obama’s presidential run, the media’s claim that there is one “Black Church” (a.k.a. Jeremiah Wright), and art exhibitions like Black Is Black Ain’t curated by Hamza Walker (The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Lady Pink</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/04/01/featured-artist-lady-pink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lady Pink, an icon to female street artists, graf writers and creative ingenues with an ear to the street, once again claims her queendom with the brush via her latest series, BRICK LADIES. She first dropped a taste of this series, The She Temple, in a YOUNITY exhibition (fall &#8216;07), and revealed more of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED ARTIST: Renata de Andrade</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/03/01/featured-artist-renata-de-andrade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trash. That&#8217;s one thing all human beings have in common.  For artist Renata de Andrade it&#8217;s the one thing she chooses to make art about and with, on two continents, South America and Europe. More specifically, within Brazil and The Netherlands.  With exhibitions in galleries and museums as well as street interventions in multiple Brazilian cities, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, Renata&#8217;s art practice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED ARTIST: Jennie Baptiste</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/02/01/featured-artist-jennie-baptiste/</link>
		<comments>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/02/01/featured-artist-jennie-baptiste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twice in the last 6 months, London based photographer, Jennie Baptiste has touched down in the land of the Maroons (Accompong Town), on the island of Jamaica, in an effort to share the vibes of one of the Caribbean’s most recognized groups of self-liberated peoples. On her first trip, six young adults traveled and photographed with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Lisa Marie Thalhammer</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/01/01/featured-artist-lisa-marie-thalhammer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would the world look like if women were the creators of their own image in popular culture and beyond?  If women were more than sensual pleasures or nurturing mothers, for the gaze, and sometimes touch, of onlookers desperate for an escape from the mystery of misery and suffering on planet earth.  At its core, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Sofia Maldonado</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2007/12/01/featured-artist-sofia-maldonado/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sofia Maldonado could be called a Third World Street Artist.  But then again, that would only describe part of her aesthetic and intellectual oeuvre.  A brilliant and original muralist she also finesses canvas, paper, disposed of skateboards, and Third World (a.k.a. Global South) toys made in China.  Born and raised in Puerto Rico, but residing in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Alice Mizrachi</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2007/11/01/featured-artist-alice-mizrachi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born and raised in Queens, Alice Mizrachi&#8217;s mixed media artwork reflects her coming of age in the 80&#8217;s when hip-hop culture was blossoming as an organic intuitive form of artistic expression across, dance, music, spoken work and the visual arts. This interplay of art forms at the street level is vibrantly alive in Mizrachi&#8217;s urban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Dulce Pinzon</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2007/10/03/featured-artist-dulce-pinzon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a young Mexican artist living in the US (currently in Brooklyn, NY), Dulce Pinzon found new inspiration for her photography in feelings of nostalgia, questions of identity, and political and cultural frustrations.  In her black and white series &#8220;Viviendo en el Gabacho&#8221; (a Mexican colloquialism for living in the US) she illustrates the dualistic phenomenon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Artis Lane</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2007/09/10/featured-artist-artis-lane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those in the know, know that the artist, Artis Lane, is one of North America&#8217;s best kept secrets. Her extensive career over 50+ years has covered periods in Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Puerto Rico, Mexico City and back to LA, where she currently lives and works.  Dedicated to the spiritual path since her mid-thirties, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Joe Conzo</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2007/08/04/featured-artist-joe-conzo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 70’s, Joe Conzo’s pictures were part of Hip-Hop. 30 years later, they’re part of Hip-Hop history.  Raised on the tough streets of the South Bronx, Joe was definitely at the right place at the right time. During the late 70’s and early 80’s, he intimately captured the birth of Hip-Hop music and a culture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Wardell Milan</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2007/07/17/featured-artist-wardell-milan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born and raised in Tennessee, Wardell Milan earned his BFA from the University of Tennessee in 2001 and a MFA form Yale University in 2004. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Greater New York at PS1, Black Alphabet at the National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland and Frequency, at The Studio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Noelle Theard</title>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2007/06/24/featured-artist-noelle-theard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miami based photographer Noelle Theard and Colombian emcee EPHNIKO spent two months traveling through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela documenting hiphop culture. The following slideshow of Noelle’s work, done for the Miami Herald, is a testament to the fact that hiphop is alive and well abroad, and pushing creative, political and social boundaries.  Watch!  [...]]]></description>
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