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D.S. Kinsel D.S. Kinsel is an award winning cultural agitator. He expresses his creativity through the mediums of painting, installation, curating, and performance. Kinsel’s work puts focus on themes of space keeping, urban tradition, hip-hop, informalism and Cultural Appropriation. D.S. has served creative residencies at Artist Image Resource, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Carnegie…
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A White Singer In a Black Blues Club
by John Grey The big woman plays the piano. Modified blues for white fingers. She may not fit the model but still wants her story told. That’s why she bellows like there’s slaves in her ancestry. There’s not. Hollers like the whip came down. It didn’t. Her pain, her bruises, come with a history that’s…