The shuttering of SymbioticA, the world’s first bio arts laboratory, sends many practitioners back to square one when it comes to securing funding for their work.
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Alisyn Amant
Alisyn Amant is a writer from Wisconsin. She studies arts and culture journalism at Columbia University.
Voicing the Pain and Resilience of Burkina Faso Refugees
Olivier Tarpaga’s “Once the dust settles” produces a tension between horror and beauty as the piece explores motherhood, womanhood, and feminism under threat of overpowering subjugation.