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Astral Galatic Griots

They are the Astral Galatic Griots.
For each theme, Madame Dolores reached out to fellow artists and creatives to listen to the theme/album and write what was in their hearts. 

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SAG-AFTRA African-American actress/voiceover artist/model residing in the Pittsburgh, PA area.

 

Born Amy Lyn Smith, she was raised in the small town of Clinton, Missouri. She graduated from Clinton Senior High School in 1991 & attended Lincoln University of Missouri. She started her career in modeling & live promotions in 1997. After moving to the Pittsburgh area in 2005 & then having her youngest child in 2008, she took a hiatus. In 2013, she started her career in entertainment again as a background actor. Believing in her heart that acting was her gift, Amy Lyn soon began auditioning and winning lead roles in short films, TV series and commercials.
 

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Maritza Mosquera is a visual artist, poet, painter, and cook whose creations often accompany dialogues with community. Her visual works are installation “diaries” about relationships and ideas referencing personal and public desires, such as the earth’s healing from fracking, intimacy, criminal justice, the story of skin, the end of racism, home recipes, and the power of voice.

 

Mosquera received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. She was granted a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1987.

 

Her written and visual work have been presented regionally and nationally, as well as in Ecuador, Ireland, and Chile. Her work has been funded by the Multi-Cultural Arts Initiative of the Pittsburgh Foundation, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Americans for The Arts, the Buncher Foundation, the Snow Foundation and Arts Midwest.

 

She currently works with elders and youth who face special challenges such as dementia, incarceration, Alzheimer's, poverty, sexual victimization, and regular life.

 

Mosquera's current studios are in Pittsburgh and Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania.

 

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Jessica Janene

 

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Creative Director / Storyteller / Artist / Motor Head

Creative Art Director · Senior Art Director · Senior Graphic Designer

 

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Veronica Corpuz is a first generation Filipina American poet and multimedia artist. The former director of the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh, Penn., she has previously served as the program assistant for the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York City; as adjunct professor at Naropa University and Chatham University; and as guest speaker and poet at New York University and the Kelly Writers House at University of Pennsylvania. She has co-authored with Michelle Naka Pierce a book-length series of experimental poems exploring gender, sexuality and identity entitled TRI/VIA (Erudite Fangs/PUB LUSH, 2003).

She is currently working on a memoir of prose poems about her late husband, Michael Grzymkowski, and his battle with brain cancer. Ms. Corpuz received her BA in English and American Literature with Honors in Creative Writing from Brown University and her MFA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She resides in Wilkinsburg, Penn., with her two sons, Nico and AJ, and husband Alex Thomson.

 

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