Marlos E'Van
Episode 7 | 2m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Artist Marlos E'Van talks about their pieces on social justice, family and more.
Marlos E'Van is a visionary art director. An alum of Watkins College of Art in Nashville, Marlos co-founded and helps run the McGruder Social Practice Artist Residency, which invites artists to use the space in exchange for interacting with the community through workshops, shows, etc. Marlos's work reflects varied topics from social justice to police brutality, family traditions and food.
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Marlos E'Van
Episode 7 | 2m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Marlos E'Van is a visionary art director. An alum of Watkins College of Art in Nashville, Marlos co-founded and helps run the McGruder Social Practice Artist Residency, which invites artists to use the space in exchange for interacting with the community through workshops, shows, etc. Marlos's work reflects varied topics from social justice to police brutality, family traditions and food.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(mellow music) - I like to say that it started when I was in elementary school.
I found a blue can of shaving gel and I went into the teacher's lounge and did a mural out of the spray gel on the wall in the teacher's lounge.
Got in massive trouble for that, but I think that's where my artistic sensibilities first kicked in.
From there, I never took art classes til I got to college, so most of it was just me doing street art and being in my room, making work.
As far as topics, I might go anywhere from police brutality to social justice conversations, to hamburgers.
I take a lot from my own life, or I take stuff from people who I know who went through certain things, and I just put it down on canvas.
The piece actually started from a conversation I was having with other artists, and we were talking about family travel.
And I was like, "Yo, in my life, our biggest form of family travel was traveling to different states to go to a funeral."
And I know I'm not alone in that, but I'm questioning why?
why is that so?
Because I feel like also there's a lot of people that can relate to the situations and stories.
So I like to put that out there, because it's not just about me.
The room we're in right now, this is the M-Spar room, the McGruder Social Practice Artists Residency room, which myself and Courtney Adair Johnson created.
So what we do, we invite artists to come here and work in exchange for their time giving to the community.
We'll give you a spot for work for a few months, six months to a year sometimes, and what we ask you to do is just interact with the community in some way.
Maybe do a workshop, maybe do an art show here.
It's a special thing for me because I'm not disconnected myself from the community that I'm in.
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