Making Space - Austin Artist Nadia Waheed Develops an International following

Nadia Waheed breathes, thinks, does everything art. And she takes art to the level that it becomes a movement. This article for the Tribeza (February 2019) explains how this young artist is on a mission to bare her soul in her journey to perfection.

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"Other Forms of Life" at the Contemporary Austin - With her mysterious and compelling artwork, Huma Bhabha puts us face to alien face

New York based artist, Huma Bhahba, exhibited her work at Contemporary Austin from September 2018 to January 2019. This article talks about what her work taught me and how I came across her. This article was published online and in print in The Austin Chronicle on September 14, 2018.

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Austin Arts Hall of Fame inductee gives microphone to hidden voices

Austin Art Hall of Fame Inductee Anuradha Naimpally is an artist who uses her expertise to call attention to hidden voices in a society. It leaves a huge impact on the audience. I wrote about her for the Austin-American Statesman on June 4, 2018.

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Review: Flamenco India - Oliver Rajamani tells a story of migration in music and dance

This article was published in The Austin Chronicle on May 9, 2018, when I had just attended Oliver Rajamani’s concert at the ZACH Theater in Austin. The performance was in part an effort to raise awareness of the University of Texas' Romani Archives and Documentation Center, the largest collection of its kind in the world. Flamenco is a storytelling dance that blends cultures through migration told through music and dramatic movements designed to convey emotion of a message of long ago. 

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