The Music Stayed: Past, Present & Future Frequencies – The Art of Skira Martinez
Skira Martinez builds with what other people threw away: piano keys that stopped sounding years...
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The Music Stayed: Past, Present & Future Frequencies | The Artwork of Skira Martinez
Skira Martinez turns salvaged piano keys, speakers and tape decks into twelve works about Black music in The Music Stayed; Past, Present & Future Frequencies at the Historic Dunbar Hotel. Opens Sunday, Oct 25 with live jazz. Through Jan 30.
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The Music Stayed Press Release
South Central artist Skira Martinez turns salvaged piano keys, speakers and tape decks into twelve works on sustainability and Black music. Opening day with live jazz at the Historic Dunbar Hotel, Sun Nov 1, 2:30–4:30 PM. Free.
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On the Alternative Venue Exhibition Model
Rent for permanent space in Los Angeles is a tax on ambition, and that tax falls heaviest on those artists and audiences I most want in the room together. So I took my gallery off its foundation. This is what we call the Alternative Venue Exhibition Model.
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The Piano Room
Before she was an award-winning artist. Before she was a Senior Art Director at The WB/CW and E! Television. Before any of it — Riea Owens was a seven-year-old in Pasadena dragging visitors into the piano room. Forty-plus years later, she is still dragging people in.
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