Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022

Time: 11:50 p.m. 

We waited patiently in bed beside each other — my fiancée and I. I made sure to check my phone for the time two or three times before the release. As soon as the clock struck 12, we hopped onto Spotify to listen to the new album, only to wait a few moments longer for the artist’s page to load; we were not the only ones waiting. In fact millions of listeners waited patiently by their devices. 

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“It’s important to me and my brand to share the beauty of people – especially those who don’t normally get the light.” -Willy Chavarria (Highsnobiety)

For the conceptual fashion artist Willy Chavarria, inclusion and activism are at the forefront of his collective work. This Latinx designer firmly stationed himself as a force of nature in the fashion world with his iconic, blocky silhouettes and subversive designs.

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Industrial Designer Stephen Burks’ “Shelter in Place” exhibit at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art is artist expression in physical form. Like many of Burks' works, the pieces in this collection inspire innovation from handmade structures. 

Burks, a Chicago native, graduated from The Illinois Institute of Technology.  While there he studied in the school’s Crown Hall designed by his biggest inspiration, American-German Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Burks went on to study architecture at Colombia University Graduate School before opening his own studio in New York in 1997.

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