Meditations for George Floyd & the Confluence of Covid, a New Paradigm
Douglas R. Ewart - Ewart Ceramic Didjeridu, Bamboo Flutes, Rainstick, English Horn, Bells, Conch Shell, Suling & Abeng/Akroben Stephanie Watts - Videographer & Editor
Footage documented at Wellsprings Farm, Annandale, Minnesota. Ewart's lab coat painted by Arthur Wright.
The .9Mile Collaborative is excited to announce the premiere streaming of Meditations for George Floyd & the Confluence of Covid, a New Paradigm, a new work created by master musician/artist/philosopher Douglas R. Ewart. Mr. Ewart has a long-history with Hallwalls and Buffalo, most recently creating and installing Rio Negro II, a major collaborative multi-media exhibition with George Lewis and Douglas Repetto which was on view in the Marine A Silo at Silo City for the month of September 2019. Mr. Ewart is a life-long humanitarian and activist and a 25-year resident of Minneapolis, where he live just blocks from the epicenter of the events that sparked the current racial justice movement.
BIO: Perhaps best known as a saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, sculptor, and maker of masks and instruments, Douglas R. Ewart is also an educator, lecturer, arts organization consultant, and all around visionary. In projects done in diverse media throughout an award-winning and widely-acclaimed 40-year career, Ewart has woven his broad gifts into a single sensibility that encourages and celebrates the wholeness of individuals in culturally active communities.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1946, Douglas R. Ewart immigrated to Chicago, Illinois in the United States in 1963. He joined the internationally renowned Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and eventually served as chairman. He has taught School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1990. Mr. Ewart leads several of his own ensembles, runs his own record label, Aarawak Records and has collaborated with a wide range of master musicians.
Hallwalls Music Program is made possible through public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency & the .9Mile Collaborative was established through a generous grant from the Cullen Foundation.
