Released August 1st 2024. Collaboration with Black Noise Zine.
'Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea', a play about a young black man from Baltimore going off in search of his ancestor after they appear to him in a dream. Liz Miller is tasked with costuming the cast.
"Costuming really had me pondering and admittedly I was spending more time than I’d care to admit trying to find the little pieces of tribal fabric that were— or in certain cases— were not stitched into various places on the characters clothes. At first, I thought the bright blue and orange patterned fabric was only hidden in places like the side-seam of Danielle’s jeans or in the mom’s robe pocket because it was meant to only be on members of his family. But then it was on Robby’s costume too (still not 100% clear whether or not Robby was physical family or just ‘so-close-you’re-family’) but not on the father’s clothing. The father had tribal fabric, but it was faded and worn and of a completely different color scheme and pattern. So that had me marveling the whole show through. Liz Miller (costume designer) did an excellent job at making the costumes realistic for an every-day ‘modern slice-of-life’ style show and then adding those little hidden scraps of past into her work."
"It was a delight to see a sculptural headpiece at work by costumer and visual artist Liz Miller. Her use of hair to create textural elements gave the Ancestor both a traditional and also urban appearance. It was however, the fine detailing of the cast’s modern wardrobe that was the highlight of the design. Miller adorned their Morgan T-shirts, day job uniforms, and denim with accents of kente cloth, tying together centuries of style."
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Featuring Liz Miller: mural company owner, teaching artist and fine artist/filmmaker
“The Ties That Bind,” presented by the Millennium Art Salon at IA&A at Hillyer. The 14-artist exhibition is an overview of “the Black experience throughout the Diaspora,” according to the gallery.
The show ‘Ties that Bind‘, curated by Lauren Davidson and Jarvis DuBois being shown at IA & A HILLYER in DC Saturday, September 3–Sunday, October 30, 2022, held a talk during the event ‘ART ALL NIGHT’ that regularly sees crowds of 30,000 cycle thru the participating galleries. Stay tuned for third Thursday 10-20-22!
Featuring fellow performers: Imani Shabazz, Ana Johnson, Kay Francis Harvey-Bonham.
Unapologetic Conversations of Hair & Nonconformity brings attention to the past discriminatory practices that have threatened to remove people of color from professional opportunities. Systemic prejudices have historically limited access to opportunities due to nonconformity to cultural standards that promote discrimin
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