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Hi. I am an artist living/working in Nashville, TN. To see my work visit: jessicaclay.org Art Blog Youtube Channel

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how to feel meaningfulness in your art life when your art relationships have drastically changed and your art community is spread out over the country and has been greatly reduced.

remember you are always and are never alone in the universe 

walk outside, find a human to talk to

work on three things at once

work on five things at once

compose a handwritten letter

send out five drawings to five different people

go take a sculpture/ photography walk

talk to at least five people on the walk

leave random drawings in public places

leave a “take a phone number” sheet with an alternate purpose

invite someone over to your studio (or corner, desk, etc.) even and especially if it seems scary to do so

compose a list of ways to not feel lonely as an artist

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"I Am Not Nonviolent": New Nina Simone Film Captures Singer and Activist’s Uncompromising Voice

As the Black Lives Matter movement grows across the country and the the nation mourns the death of the nine worshipers killed at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church, we look back at the life of one of the most important voices of the civil rights movement: the singer Nina Simone, known as the High Priestess of Soul. While Simone died in 2003, a new documentary, "What Happened, Miss Simone?," sheds light on her music and politics. Her song "Mississippi Goddam" became an anthem of the civil rights movement. She wrote it in the wake of the assassination of Medgar Evers in Mississippi and the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four black children. We speak to the film’s director, Liz Garbus, and Al Schackman, Nina Simone’s guitarist and music director for over 40 years.

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How the Entire Country Bought the Government’s Confederate Flag Ploy

WARNING: the media's coverage of the Confederate Flag is not a reflection of reality.

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Repurposed ship in Vestur Skaftafellssýsla, Iceland.

Contributed by Sigrún Hólmgeirsdóttir.

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thank you Tara from ebay

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reFLECKtions

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I haven't been on tumblr in a few months really. Sorry I missed things, I'll try to catch up when I can. 

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2015 so far

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I just wrote a song called You're a B-A-D-D-O-G , and it is great. Wish you could hear.

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wisdom, Hillary, and a numb tongue - some of this can be attributed to the mind altering substances I took

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Chart of the week: White high school dropouts do better than college grads of color

By Lisa Wade, PhD

Here’s a doozy in the theme of the racial wealth gap: households headed by white people who dropped out of high school have greater assets than those headed by blacks and Latinos with college degrees.

At Demos, where Matt Bruenig posted this graph, he writes:

The median white family with an education level below high school has a net worth of $51.3k, while the median black and hispanic family with a college degree has a net worth of $25.9k and $41k respectively.

You’re better off being a white high school dropout than a black or Latino college grad. Ouch.

Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

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Demonstrators interrupt St. Louis Symphony singing a ‘Requiem for Mike Brown’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDc4Z-ex8sQ

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When people compare the greatness that is The Simpsons to other animated shows like Family Guy it makes me want to set myself on fire

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As I have stated here previously, Lisa Simpson is one of my heroes. (I do like Family Guy though). How many of you grew up thinking that women, POC, and LGBTQ people didn’t have a place in science?