André Ramos-Woodard is a photographic artist originally from Texas and Tennessee. In their series BLACK SNAFU, André combines photographs celebrating Blackness with appropriated illustrations from racist cartoons as a way of confronting the history and present reality of American racism. In our conversation we discussed appropriation, questions of audience and community, and mental health. Then in the second segment, we talked about what inspires us outside of the visual arts.

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Show Notes:

• André Ramos-Woodard
• André Ramos-Woodard - BLACK SNAFU
• Hannah Jane Parkinson - “Instagram, an artist and the $100,000 selfies—appropriation in the digital age” (Article about Richard Prince Instagram images)
• William Camargo
• William Camargo’s IG post riffing on John Diva’s work
• Kansas City Artists Coalition - André Ramos-Woodard Artist Talk
• André Ramos-Woodard - African America
• Roger Ebert - “Video games can never be art”
• Beyonce - Renaissance

Transcript Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo