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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Los Angeles, with its communities from around the world, is a melting pot of flavors, views, and practices. During a Summer of Safer at Home, the Fowler is pleased to bring World Arts and Cultures to you. All...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]by Erica P. Jones, Curator of African Art The sounds of pantsula echo throughout the townships of Johannesburg: kwaito and house music, coupled with whistles, are accompanied by the quick and complex rhythms of dancing feet. Crews, or troupes,...
Acrobats and body contortionists have been popular in different cultures around the world from antiquity to today. This vessel’s iconography reflects a specific time and place. The precisely delineated processional figures depicted around the vessel’s opening; the use of such motifs as the stepped fret,...
FOWLER FAMILIES: THE JASMINE SNEEZE The Jasmine Sneeze, by an award-winning Syrian author-illustrator Nadine Kaadan, tells the tale of the cat Haroun who enjoys sleeping in the jasmine-scented courtyard in Damascus. Haroun spends his days basking in the sun and sneezing from the jasmine plants near...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the children’s book, Antiracist Baby, author Ibram X. Kendi provides a valuable nine-step guide to building a more equitable world. Vivid illustrations of diverse families (and lots of babies) by Ashley Lukashevsky accompany a poetic text that...
