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Hot Sauce and Copper Art

Stephen Bruce shows his workspace in his East Bay (United States) studio and talks about his unique craft of treating copper sheets with acids used for cooking and condiments to create striking copper paintings.

Evoking Nature through Acid Painted Copper Original artwork by Stephen Bruce 1: treated copper sheet.
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Evoking Nature through Acid Painted Copper

Stephen Bruce describes how through his unique type of treated copper sheet art he is connected to the earth and wishes to evoke emotions we experience when watching a beautiful sunset or the striking patterns in water from high above.

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Kelvin Curry: Journey from Realism to Surrealism in East Oakland (1 of 4)

Born in East Oakland, California, Kelvin Curry talks about his journey as an artist from his childhood in the 1970s to now, especially how his art is influenced by his upbringing and experience as a black man in the US.

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Greens, Grit, and Grooves in the Lower Bottoms

James Bell, a native of West Oakland, California, US (also known as the Lower Bottoms), talks about what inspires his special brand of music: eating healthy, cooperative ethics, and life. He shares two tracks about black identity and eating nutritiously.