updates from April Banks

Posted on | July 24, 2008 | No Comments

Now Showing. . .

Navajos Creep Me in They Teepees* (Collaboration with Amanda Williams) [Editor's note--I LOVE this piece--one of my favorites in the show]

*image from a photography series about the prevalence of double entendres in rap music/popular culture.

The lyrics “. . .Navajos creep me in they teepees. . .” are from rapper Biggie Smalls’ song, “Give Me One More Chance.”

@ The Museum of the African Diaspora

Show: “Double Exposure” Traveling Photography Exhibition

Location: 685 Mission St (@ 3rd), San Francisco, CA

Show runs: June 20 – September 28, 2008

more info: Double Exposure

In Print . . .

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Curiously Chocolate (beautifully written by Nicole Caruth)

Issue: Spring 2008, Volume 8, No. 2

California Visions Award

My first artist residency!

After being nominated two years in a row (thank you Kevin Chen from Intersection), I received my first artist residency through the

Alliance of Artists Communities. I am one of the six California artists chosen to participate in the Visions from the New California project,

sponsored by The James Irvine Foundation, for 2009.

My residency will be at the 18th St. Art Center in Santa Monica, CA.

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