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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 62 - Ben Westhoff
Episode 61 - Alicia Angel
Episode 60 - Jakub Ferencik
Episode 59 - S.A. Lawrence-Welch
Episode 58 - Hardlineray
Episode 57 - DIRTY PRINCESS
Episode 56 - Claire Peaceful Deer Lady Zwicker
Episode 55 - Cathy Camper
Episode 54 - Joëlle Jones
Episode 53 - Özlem Sorlu Thompson
Episode 52 - Kait Matthews
Episode 51 - Blackwater Holylight
Episode 50 -The Return of Vanessa Stockard
Episode 49 - Loren Rhoads
Episode 48 - HAWKINS
Episode 47 - Olivia MacDonald
Episode 46 - Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Daniel
Episode 45 - Kym Gouchie
Episode 44 - Jessica McDiarmid
Episode 43 - Benjamin Gorman
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