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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Yvette Young, Ethereal Musician and Artist (ART/LIT #6)

6/26/2017

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This installment of Artist Spotlight brings us Yvette Young, a musician with a uniquely brilliant compositional and playing style. Yvette is the guitarist and primary writer for Covet, a California-based math rock band. Covet’s intricate riffs create vivid soundscapes that transport listeners to another place, while her acoustic and vocal solo work contains darker, more personal themes.
 
In addition to being acquainted with a number of other instruments (including piano, violin, harp, and banjo), Yvette is also a skilled visual artist. She designs album covers, accepts art commissions, and paints custom guitars (including her own Strandberg).
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In this interview, Yvette shares with us her experiences growing up as an artist in an area that emphasizes STEM, the therapeutic effects of music in her life, the roles teachers have played in her growth, her experiences being an Asian woman in music, and the projects she has been working on recently.

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Friends of GKA: Introducing Ascend Magazine & An Interview with Malak Shahin

6/24/2017

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We're constantly in awe of the writing community. Specifically, those in the community who are introducing new voices or building new platforms for these voices to appear. From featuring marginalized communities to highlighting underrepresented topics or ideas, GKA wants to spread the word about these new and very cool publications. We're excited to start a new blog series, featuring other literary journals that, like GKA, were founded by young writers and artists, and have their own bold and unique mission. Here are the stories of their founders, how they came to be, and why their existence is necessary.

Ascend Magazine is a recently-founded literary publication aimed towards providing a different--and necessary--perspective from people of color, as well as initiating self-acceptance for the marginalized through art. True to its name (Ascend’s founder, Malak Shahin, is Palestinian-American) the mission of the magazine is to allow women and nonbinary people of color to rise up in society through contributing their voices to the platform. The magazine officially launched on May 10th, 2017, and has already reached over five hundred followers, a monumental stepping stone to what Shahin hopes will allow Ascend to assume a more established presence within the canon of protest literature. I interviewed Shahin in order to find out more about Ascend’s main goals, structure, and hopes for development

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