Traveling Culturati

Murals and Street Art

On TRAVELING CULTURATI this week: Murals & Street Art!

Murals and street art are globally accepted forms of contemporary art. They are expressive, reflective of society and social events. At various times in history they have found their way front and center to not only the public at large but also the art world.

In the age of social media and Instagram-worthy shots, I thought it prudent to talk about this art form and its impact.

Two excellent guests join host, Ja'Vonne Harley providing a better understanding of Murals & Street Art in the art world and the impact this contemporary form of art has on society, especially as we deal with social justice and injustice.

It’s really the art imitates life and life imitates art Yin and Yang

Rebecca Zorach teaches in the art history department of Northwestern University as the Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art and Art History. She has written on early modern European art, the Black Arts Movement, contemporary activist art, and art and ecology. She co-edited the 2017 book The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago with Abdul Alkalimat and Romi Crawford. In 2019, she published Art for People's Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965–1975. 

Dorian Sylvain is a painter whose color and texture explore ornamentation, pattern, and design as identifiers of cultural and historical foundations. Her art reflects, connects, and strengthens Black Chicago and for the past four decades, she has been committed to educating youth and creating public art that elevates neighborhoods and environmental aesthetics through collective art-making.

Plus Travel News with the latest travel news, and Ja'Vonne's Travel Minute.

U.S. Civil Rights Trail with Deborah Douglas

There are so many historic sites related to the Civil Rights movement. Many cities significant to the movement have trails with monuments, memorials, museums, and the historic sites themselves. Deciding where to go and putting together an itinerary can be time-consuming and without prior knowledge can be incomplete. Deborah Douglas has curated a U.S. Civil Rights Trail in a guidebook that is complete with planning tools, personal experiences, and general tourism elements.

In The Culture Report

In the Culture Report, I’m having a conversation with Elijah Heyward III, the Chief Operating Officer of the International African American Museum that is scheduled to open in 2022 in Charleston, SC, a city at the center of the African slave trade between 1783 and 1808 and located at the port where many enslaved Africans arrived.

Tourism's Impact On Gentrification

In the second week of Black History Month, and in our theme of Traveling While Black To The Future, we’re going to have a very thought-provoking conversation in this episode about tourism and gentrification. Yes, it’s a thing. What impact does tourism have on communities, how tourism can gentrify and change the landscape of a community and what tourists and communities can do for a more inclusive and diverse experience?

 

Aristotle Theresa, a Civil Rights attorney focusing on Zoning and Administrative Law. He is a principal partner of "Stoop Law" which is located in the Anacostia neighborhood of Southeast Washington DC and Sonya Grier, Ph.D., Professor of Marketing at the Kogod School of Business, American University, and Co-editor of Race in the Marketplace: Crossing Critical Boundaries are my guests.

TRAVELING CULTURATI: Black Historic Sites to Know And Visit

On TRAVELING CULTURATI this week: Black history is 24/7/365 and in February, Black History Month, we celebrate!
There are numerous Black historic sites including monuments, memorials, museums, and trails across the United States. This week we’re exploring a few and giving you ways you can celebrate the month!

On The Culture Report: There’s a new dining app created by, and for Black Restaurant Hunters Mobile app EatOkra is the first smartphone application to curate over 6500 black-owned restaurants and food establishments throughout the United States.

Plus Travel News with the latest travel news, and Ja'Vonne's Travel Minute on Stretches Before, During & After A Long Flight.

TRAVELING CULTURATI: Black Historic Sights to Know and to Visit

On TRAVELING CULTURATI this week: Black history is 24/7/365 and in February, Black History Month, we celebrate!
There are numerous Black historic sites including monuments, memorials, museums, and trails across the United States. This week we’re exploring a few and giving you ways you can celebrate the month!

On The Culture Report: There’s a new dining app created by, and for Black Restaurant Hunters Mobile app EatOkra is the first smartphone application to curate over 6500 black-owned restaurants and food establishments throughout the United States.

Plus Travel News with the latest travel news, and Ja'Vonne's Travel Minute on Stretches Before, During & After A Long Flight.

 

Black Historic Sites To Know And Visit

Black history is 24/7/365 and in February, Black History Month, we celebrate!
There are numerous Black historic sites including monuments, memorials, museums, and trails across the United States. This week we’re exploring a few and giving you ways you can celebrate the month!

In The Culture Report:

There’s a new dining app created by and for Black Restaurant Hunters

Mobile app EatOkra is the first smartphone application to curate over 6500 black-owned restaurants and food establishments throughout the United States.

I had a lovely chat with developer and military veteran, Anthony Edwards, Jr. and his wife and co-founder, Janique Bradley. Anthony says, “EatOkra is the result of wanting to locate restaurants in his Brooklyn neighborhood and becoming astonished by the variety of black-owned food establishments he discovered.”

Northern Lights and ICEHOTEL

Host, Ja'Vonne Harley has been curating her #YOLO travel list lately and two of the things on her list are to witness the Northern Lights and stay in an Ice Hotel, well, this is THE ICEHOTEL.

This episode is with special guests, Matts Svensson, Chairman of the Board of THE ICEHOTEL, which is the original hotel made completely of snow and ice, and Albert Ojemmbarrena, owner of Amarok Adventures and guide in Iceland who specializes in Northern Lights adventures.

Winter Jaunts for Snow Birds and Snow Bunnies

Winter is a season you either embrace and flock to where the winter weather is at its best or shiver and flee to where warmer temperatures shine bright.

In this episode of Traveling Culturati, we're exploring both!

Bundle up or get your bathing suit for this one! 

Woosah Vacation Goals

Planning your vacation to Woosah. Where to go in the US and Internationally with Host, Ja'Vonne Harley

What's In Store For Travel in 2021

Host, Ja'Vonne Harley is joined by Executive Producer, Gene Harley with their vision for travel in 2021. Where to go, what's trending and what willtravel look like.