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Marcia Minter

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Daniel and Marcia Minter are a Portland power couple in the arts, advertising, culture and history scenes. In 2019 they co-founded the Indigo Arts Alliance, a non-profit dedicated to the creative cultivation of artists of African descent. Daniel Minter is an internationally exhibited artist, visual storyteller and illustrator. His artwork reflects abiding themes of displacement and diaspora, ordinary and extraordinary blackness, spirituality in the Afro-Atlantic world, and the creation and recreation of meanings of home. He has illustrated over a dozen children’s books, was twice commissioned to create stamps for the U.S. Postal Service and co-founded the Portland Freedom Trail. He teaches at the Maine College of Art. Marcia Minter is a seasoned creative professional who has spent her career as an executive creative director for some of the world’s most iconic brands, including an extended time as Vice President Creative Director with L.L. Bean. Marcia is a dedicated arts advocate and community leader, deeply committed to social and cultural activism. Currently she serves on the Maine Arts Commission, the Board of Directors for Maine Media Workshops and College and Portland Ovations and is a Trustee of the Portland Museum of Art.   Video of this conversation is available at: https://youtu.be/41-jsuE7CoY

Daniel and Marcia Minter are a Portland power couple in the arts, advertising, culture and history scenes. In 2019 they co-founded the Indigo Arts Alliance, a non-profit dedicated to the creative cultivation of artists of African descent. Daniel Minter is an internationally exhibited artist, visual storyteller and illustrator. His artwork reflects abiding themes of displacement and diaspora, ordinary and extraordinary blackness, spirituality in the Afro-Atlantic world, and the creation and recreation of meanings of home. He has illustrated over a dozen children’s books, was twice commissioned to create stamps for the U.S. Postal Service and co-founded the Portland Freedom Trail. He teaches at the Maine College of Art. Marcia Minter is a seasoned creative professional who has spent her career as an executive creative director for some of the world’s most iconic brands, including an extended time as Vice President Creative Director with L.L. Bean. Marcia is a dedicated arts advocate and community leader, deeply committed to social and cultural activism. Currently she serves on the Maine Arts Commission, the Board of Directors for Maine Media Workshops and College and Portland Ovations and is a Trustee of the Portland Museum of Art. Video of this conversation is available at: <a href="https://youtu.be/41-jsuE7CoY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/41-jsuE7CoY</a>

Maine Voices Live: Daniel and Marcia Minter

In this episode, Marpheen and Liz sit down with Daniel and Marcia Minter of Indigo Arts Alliance to get their perspectives on diversity, inclusion, equity and navigating difference in the art world and beyond.  TERMS:  Colonization: "Settler colonialism is said to be a structure, not an historic event, whose endgame is always the elimination of the Natives in order to acquire their land, which it does in countless seen and unseen ways. These techniques are woven throughout the US’s national discourse at all levels of society. Manifest Destiny—that is, the US’s divinely sanctioned inevitability—is like a computer program always operating unnoticeably in the background. In this program, genocide and land dispossession are continually both justified and denied." (Dina Gilio-Whitaker) Unconscious and Conscious Bias: "The automatic or neurobiological processes underlying unconscious stereotyping and prejudice guiding the perception and attitude towards social groups." (Mindbridge)  CALL TO ACTION: Donate to support Indigo Arts Alliance: https://indigoartsalliance.me/donate/ Support Black-Owned Businesses: https://www.blackownedmaine.com/

In this episode, Marpheen and Liz sit down with Daniel and Marcia Minter of Indigo Arts Alliance to get their perspectives on diversity, inclusion, equity and navigating difference in the art world and beyond.  TERMS: <ul> <li>Colonization: "Settler colonialism is said to be a structure, not an historic event, whose endgame is always the elimination of the Natives in order to acquire their land, which it does in countless seen and unseen ways. These techniques are woven throughout the US’s national discourse at all levels of society. Manifest Destiny—that is, the US’s divinely sanctioned inevitability—is like a computer program always operating unnoticeably in the background. In this program, genocide and land dispossession are continually both justified and denied." <a href="https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2018/11/settler-fragility-why-settler-privilege-is-so-hard-to-talk-about.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(Dina Gilio-Whitaker)</a></li> <li>Unconscious and Conscious Bias: "The automatic or neurobiological processes underlying unconscious stereotyping and prejudice guiding the perception and attitude towards social groups." <a href="https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/files/events/Ligouri_and_Evans_MPC_FINAL_II.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(Mindbridge)</a></li> </ul> CALL TO ACTION: Donate to support Indigo Arts Alliance: <a href="https://indigoartsalliance.me/donate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://indigoartsalliance.me/donate/</a> Support Black-Owned Businesses: <a href="https://www.blackownedmaine.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.blackownedmaine.com/</a>

Episode 001: Daniel and Marcia Minter