Tag: Savannah artist
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Shakespeare’s Face Reinterpreted: The Second Coming of Artist Rocky Bettis
(“Shakespeare Considered Sepia” 2024 digital painting by Aberjhani based on original 1623 First Folio engraving by Martin Droeshout.) “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler (from Stella Adler on America’s Master Playwrights) 1. Different Times and New Places Have you…
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Text and Meaning in Elemental the Power of Illuminated Love (part 2 of 3)
Video cover image for the music and poem video “Angel of Better Days to Come.” One example of ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love’s principal themes would be the painting “Christ Listening to Stereo.” It depicts a youth on a bus in New York City.…
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Text and Meaning in Elemental The Power of Illuminated Love (part 1 of 3)
Angles of Ascents Anthology featuring the works of contemporary poets. (Cover image features poets Nikki Giovanni and the late Amiri Baraka) Success for the creatively-inclined individual can be defined in many ways. Certainly there are those who necessarily measure their triumphs in terms of monetary gains. There are others for…
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New “Songs of My People” Art Exhibition Opens at Penn Center | Aberjhani | Blog Post | Red Room
The “Songs of My People” art exhibition, featuring fifteen new works by Savannah and New York artist Luther E. Vann, celebrated co-creator of the landmark art and poetry book ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love opened November 11 at Penn Center’s York W. Bailey Museum on St. Helena Island, South…