Something (rather than nothing)
Arts:Visual Arts
Interdisciplinary artist avery r. young is a 3Arts Award winning teaching artist, composer and producer with work that spans the genres of music, performance, visual arts and literature. Examining and celebrating Black American history and culture, his work also focuses in the areas of social justice, equity, queer identity, misogyny, and body consciousness. As a writer, this Cave Canem alum has work featured in The Breakbeat Poets, Coon Bidness, to be left with the body, and Make Magazine. He has also written curriculum and essays on arts education that appear in the Teaching Artist Journal and A.I.M. Print.
Dubbed “sunday mornin jook joint,” his performance and work in sound design merges spiritual and secular aesthetics with dramatic and comedic sensibilities. He has performed at the Hip Hop Theater Festival, Wordstock, and Lollapalooza. He has recorded with house producers Anthony Nicholson and Charlie Dark, and is featured on recordings such as New World Reveal-A-Solution, Audio Truism, Catfish Haven’s Devastator, and New Skool Poetiks. His new full-length release, booker t. soltreyne: a race rekkid, features songs and other sound designed created during his artist residency with the University of Chicago's Arts + Public Life initiative. It was during this residency that he worked on sound design and poems called "cullud sign(s)."
Through voice, sound, visual art, and performance, young is constantly exploring the forms and spaces in which poetry can exist. Most recently, he is the vocalist on flutist Nicole Mitchell’s Mandorla Awakening (FPE Records) and his poetry is featured in photographer and fellow 3Arts awardee Cecil McDonald Jr.’s debut book, In the Company of Black (Candor Arts).
Young’s first book neckbone (Northwestern University Press) is out on the shelves now. He is currently one of four directors for the Floating Museum and touring with his band, avery r. young & de deacon board. New album Tubman. is available via all major musical outlets.
Episode 142 - Madison Marie McIntosh
Episode 141 - Gerald van Scyoc (Part One)
Episode 140 - Haley Robinson
Episode 139 - Greg Petre and Graham Smith
Episode 138 - Susie deVille
Episode 137 - Kimberly Laberge and Cory Fitzsimmons
Episode 136 - Jeff Ostler
Episode 135 - Jonathan Blalock (with guest host Kinneret Ely)
Episode 134 - Calina Lawrence (with guest host Paige Pettibon)
Episode 133 - Sally Mars (with guest host Melissa Oliveri)
Episode 132 - Daryl Parson (with guest host Rachel Lally)
Episode 131 - Spoken Word with Geoff Finan and Greg Clifford
Episode 130 - Jakub Ferencik
Episode 129 - Steph Littlebird
Episode 128 - Ellen Adair
Episode 127 - Nancy Houser-Bluhm
Episode 126 - Matt Hall
Episode 125 - Eleanor Wells
Episode 124 - Matt Brewster
Episode 123 - Caitlynn Abdow Velasquez
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