Hop into our car to East Oakland where we’ll meet textile artist Richard Jonathan Nelson at his friend and fellow artist Jamee Crusan’s place. Richard talks about being a black, queer man in the US, how his mother and aunts encouraged him to make textile art as a child and how language plays an important role in his life. What’s a hand baby and who brought the Kudzu? Richard tells us all.

Richard’s website: http://www.richard-jonathan-nelson.com/
Richard on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rich_nels/
Visual tour and transcript of the interview: https://artcrushinternational.com/richard-jonathan-nelson.html

Check out Jamee Crusan, artist and good friend of Richard Jonathan Nelson. Her work Black and Blue/Lack and Lure is our Beautiful Online Thing of the week: https://jameecrusan.com/new-index#/black-and-bluelack-and-lure/

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