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April 2004
Issue 13
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Cleveland Fine Art Expo

Cleveland Fine Art Expo series is sponsored by SANKOFA Fine Art Plus
SANKOFA "Fine Art Plus" is a nonprofit arts and cultural organization dedicated to the education, preservation, and distribution of fine ethnic art. On May 21, 22 & 23, 2004, Sankofa will present the 5th Annual CLEVELAND FINE ART EXPO at the Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus.

Artwork Courtesy of Sankofa

SYNTHIA SAINT JAMES

Featured Artist 20002 Cleveland Fine Art Expo

Celebration (Oil on canvas)

For more images: Synthia Saint James

More info: Sankofa Fine Art Plus
Precious (Limited edition)

Featured Artist Courtesy of The Vivid Gallery

Deby Cowdin
Untitled (Mixed Media)

The Vivid Gallery
530 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
216-241-7624

The Vivid Gallery was tied for 3rd place as
one of the Best Galleries in CLEVELAND!!!
Untitled (Mixed Media)

For more images: The Vivid Gallery

More info:designsbydeby@msn.com

Featured Poet Courtesy of Mija Magazine

Mija Magazine’s focal point is; to endorse and empower all Latinas that are looking to showcase themselves artistically in all forms of the arts, enlighten Latinas on concerns and problems that affect our community, represent different Latina communities; with NO discrimination, and to establish a network between all other Latino ran websites, colleges, businesses, companies and organizations.

Lea E. Arellano


Brown Angel


Brown angel you are dancing corridas, baile folklorico and cha cha cha all over the dance piso of my corazon
How can someone love anyone so much for so long?
I love you this way
And that way
and up and down and around the block and from the airplane and on land
In the lake and from my favorite swimming pool in the canyon
I love you from the Native gym where all the gente look just like us
I love you from those 7am three mile walks I take
I love you from the bathtub
From the car I am driving on the freeway
At all the RC workshops whether you are there or not
I have loved you
from Grand Central station in New York City, from
Chicago, Boston, Milwaukee, Portland and Santa Fe
I have loved you from Tejas and Tucson too
I even loved you from the Baja California beaches, Florida
And East L.A.
In Tijuana that love showed up tambien
I love you from the streets of San Francisco and Oakland my hometown
I even loved you from across the linea in Nogales, Sonora
What is a love struck mujer to do?
Brown angel you rule the beats in my heart, the percussion I play, the songs already sung y
mas to come
I love you and that is just the way it is and the way it always will be!
Tuya por vida!
Cactus Love


Visitation per phone ---
A voice comes one time per month.
I am a prisoner in a maximum-security facility of your love.
I cannot see or touch you,
Only hear the familiar syncopation of your Chicana twang
Through the Pacific Bell wires
One time per month;
And I am not starving,
It is just enough to keep this love roaring.
I can go great distances on one crumb,
One morsel of your attention.

Your voz massages my corazon
And my heart does not forget
The promised salvation
From the damnation of not having your love.
It is particular kind of love.
It is a mother’s love,
A familial love,
A cultura’s love ---
You are my Guadalupe,
My Malinche,
My llorona,
My muse,
My priest.

Hearing my confession
No me castiges,
I am not on my knees,
I am standing upright.

No longer afraid
To receive your communication,
I open my mouth to take your host,
You insert instructions and I obey.

I will wait forever,
Taking whatever I can get
In the realm of love, carino and desire,
You are completely mine
And I am yours.
My Chicana Goddess,
High priestess of ocotillo.
I am a snake and I slither through your spikes,
I bleed but I do not die.

And you remain,
Dentro de mi Corazon,
My nopala
Con las espinas bien dulces.

More Information about this poet or Mija Magazine email: rrosa@mijamagazine.com
Call For Artists

The Art Fix is looking for Ohio local artists, as well as national and international artists to be featured on our different series.

We are looking for emerging and established poets, writers, painters, illustrators, photographers, sculptors, glass artists, costume designers, set designers willing to share a piece of their talent to enlighten the life of all of us and to showcase their art.

A poem or/and passage of a short story will be paired to a visual artwork at every issue. Literature and artwork must be submitted electronically.

There is not a limitation on the quantity of pieces to submit, or number of proposals by one artist. There is not a deadline. However, The Art Fix reserves all the rights to select the literature pieces and visual artwork to be displayed, and the rate of distribution.

Featured artists will be linked to their websites or to a contact information web page. No fees or commissions will be charged to be promoted or as a result of any sales resulting from this promotion.

For more information about this project e-mail to AugustoBordelois@AugustoFineArt.com

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