Art for Change

The Arts and Culture Archivist

The next in a series with Forman Arts Initiative profiles artist, curator and writer Logan Cryer, who shines light on a new generation of Philly creators

By Morgan Nitz
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The Trans Culture Documenter

The next in a series with Forman Arts Initiative profiles performer/photographer Sa’Mantha SayTen, who uplifts queer trans artists through her studio and her own story

By Morgan Nitz
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The Verse Healer

Next in our series with Forman Arts Initiative: Poet Trapeta B. Mayson, whose Healing Verse Poetry Line merges her two passions: poetry and mental health

By Morgan Nitz
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The Community Builder

Muralist Cesar Viveros, whose paintings are all over the city, has shifted his focus to activism and communion in the city’s Latino community

By Morgan Nitz
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The Philadelphia Observer

In the next in our series with Forman Arts Initiative, documentarian Glenn Holsten talks about his four decades of weaving together the city’s stories of community, creativity and civic potential

By Blake Bradford
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The Hospitality Creator

Next up in our series with Forman Arts Initiative, Shannon Maldonado left behind a fashion career working with the likes of Ralph Lauren and American Eagle to come home to launch her own South Philly brand, YOWIE

By Morgan Nitz
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Elder Scribe

Next up in our conversation series with Forman Arts Initiative, oral historian Julie Rainbow connects the Second Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Philly to our present search for community

By Blake Bradford
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The Lady Hoofers

In the first of a series with Forman Arts Initiative, Kat Echevarria Richter talks about The Lady Hoofers Tap Ensemble, which is reviving the "Black vernacular" dance form for new audiences

By Blake Bradford