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“Convergence: Jazz, Films and the Visual Arts<\/a>” at Bates College through December 13, 2014 is the subject of Ric Kasini Kadour’s article in the July\/August 2014 issue of Art New England<\/em>.<\/p>\n Nearly every work in “Convergence” is an example of how artists make visual art from music. Because that music is jazz, these works carry the extra weight of African American history and consciousness as it unfolded throughout the 20th century and continues today.<\/em><\/p>\n “Jazz Is Playing at Bates College” SUBSCRIBE TO ART NEW ENGLAND<\/a><\/p>\n image above<\/span> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[52,76],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-art-criticism","tag-contemporary-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/musical-missionaries-by-jefferson-pinder.jpg?fit=600%2C604&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p30q3c-7c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"ANE_JA14_cover2\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/ANE_JA14_cover2.jpg?resize=301%2C361\")
<\/a>“Convergence” is the product of a collaboration between the American Jazz Museum<\/a> in Kansas City, Missouri, an institution dedicated to the preservation and advancement of \u201cAmerica\u2019s only indigenous art form”; and the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora<\/a> at the University of Maryland, College Park.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nby Ric Kasini Kadour
\nArt New England<\/em> July\/August 2014
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\nMusical Missionaries<\/em> is a woodcut by\u00a0Chicago-based video\/performance artist\u00a0Jefferson Pinder. It is an incredible reflection of jazz and African American history.\u00a0Pinder’s video work deals with themes of blackness, Afro-Futurism, and physical endurance. You can see some HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"