Writer, Artist, Poet Steve Parlato and Art for Change
Description
In this episode, Middlebury, Connecticut, artist/author/educator Steve Parlato discusses his creative process and motivation for crafting his 16-portrait collage series, They Are Not Disposable, with host Sandy Carlson.
Each portrait depicts a Black American whose life was stolen due to racial violence. In memorializing these individuals in art and poetry, Steve seeks to promote necessary conversation around the topic of racism, with the goal of opening minds and fostering connection.
Steve is the author of two young adult novels, The Namesake (which won the 2011 Tassy Walden Award for New Voices in Y.A Fiction) and The Precious Dreadful. Both explore grief, loss, and hope.
Follow him on FB at Steven Parlato Author and IG at @stevenparlato.
People and Their Poems is sponsored presented Orenaug Mountain Publishing.
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