Daniel Amazu Wasser is a painter/collagist, on a mission to fight the good fight. He was born in 1971 in Maine and grew up in Norwalk, CT, before moving to New Haven where he currently resides and works as an Elementary School Art Teacher in the inner city.
Category Archives: Curatorial
The Box That Rocks :: Artist Profile Tim Okamura
Tim Okamura was born in Edmonton, Canada where he earned a BFA with Distinction at the Alberta College of Art and Design before moving to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts in 1991. After graduating with a MFA in Illustration … Read More →
The Box That Rocks :: Artist Profile Tahir Hemphill
Currently Hemphill enjoys his role as cultural entrepreneur, operating the Brooklyn-based creative enterprise, Staple Crops. His current project, The Hip-Hop Word Count is a searchable rap almanac. Hemphill also manages the media arts education program for Red Clay Arts, a nonprofit incubator for contemporary artists that he co-founded in 2000. … Read More →
The Box That Rocks :: Artist Profile Bobbito Garcia
NYC native and world-renowned DJ, Bobbito Garcia, is the co-founder of Bounce Magazine and critically acclaimed author of Where’d You Get Those? NYC’s Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987 (Testify Books). In recent years, “Kool Bob Love” has done sideline reporting for the NY Knicks on MSG … Read More →
The Box That Rocks :: Artist Profile M.Tony Peralta
Born in New York City’s emerging uptown neighborhood of Washington Heights to Dominican immigrant parents, Peralta was a child of the hip-hop generation. His love of hip-hop music and imagery, together with a traditional Dominican upbringing in the streets of NYC, fueled his early … Read More →
CURRENT EXHIBITION: THE BOX THAT ROCKS
THE BOX THAT ROCKS 30 Years of Video Music Box and the Rise of Hip Hop Music & Culture Guest Curated by Dexter Wimberly March 10 – May 28, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 10 | 6pm – 9pm Amy Andrieux * Malik Y. Cumbo … Read More →
The Box That Rocks :: Artist Profile LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
The Shout Out an excerpt from Has Been By: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs Six Minutes: Jungle Brothers “What You Waiting For?” (1990) That’s me. A millisecond of weirdness. We were all weird. Our hair cuts. Gumby’s. Bart Simpsons. Our clothes. The polka dots. The flairs. … Read More →
The Box That Rocks :: Artist Profile Amy Andrieux
Amy “Aimstar” Andrieux As the former Publisher of transcultural magazine TRACE, Senior Producer at MTV.com and Executive Editor/General Manager at The Source magazine, Amy Andrieux is an entertainment and lifestyle journalist, she has interviewed several key figures from Kobe Bryant, Larry Clark, Jamel Shabazz, Shepard Fairey and Pharrell Williams, to … Read More →