Luca Tu'avao Walton, the artist who built an IRL career with social media
The illustrator and artist didn’t wait for traditional paths, instead he started making work, posting it at 16, finding the people who resonated with it, and tending to that community.
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Learning from Venice: What happens when early-career practitioners encounter the world?
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The illustrator and artist didn’t wait for traditional paths, instead he started making work, posting it at 16, finding the people who resonated with it, and tending to that community. -
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Did CNZ silence staff at the Venice Biennale?
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Should banks be opening their wallets to our arts institutions?
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A quietly ambitious wave of small presses is changing what gets made, who gets published, and what ends up on our bookshelves.
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