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CONTENTS ISSUE 04
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Women of Fort Worth Who Inspire
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SPOTLIGHT 8 ART CURATOR
An Art Curator’s Journey
WORTH 12 TRYING
SUPPORT 18 GATHER GOODS
An Exploration of Style Fusion
Rising Numbers
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64 PHYSICAL
Driving Change, One Funky Fridge at a Time
It’s Written in the Stars
14 PURCHASING
A Beginner’s Guide to Collecting Art
BE WELL 60 MENTAL HEALTH
LIFE 48 HOME
Colorful Moods
52 COMMUNITY Art and Accessibility
56 SOCIAL
Psychology and Fashion
Saving Face
66 PHYSICAL THERAPY What You Should Know (About That Body Part)
FOOD 70 ESSAY
It’s Pati-O’clock Somewhere
PHILANTHROPY 74 NEAR SOUTHSIDE, INC.
Stories with QR codes
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“Forget everything you have been taught. Tarot readings are not always performed in a spooky darkroom of a mysterious individual.” - It’s Written in the Stars, by Elle Davis, P 12 “I
like to bring in a political voice and show strong women in my artwork. It’s important because historically women weren’t always seen as the way they really are, which is strong.” - Caya Crum, by Elizabeth Sehon, P 38 “Give her this. It
contains the dimensions of my body, 7 the address of my American relatives, and numbers for
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“Ever since humans first harnessed the power to develop paint, color became a means of storytelling. Emotions were described in hues: green with envy, crying the blues, and red with passion.” - Colorful Moods, by Jade Emerson, P 48
Editorial Jocelyn Foster Tatum, executive editor Contributors Editorial Sarah Angle, Rebecca Balcarcel, Jennifer Casseday-Blair, Elle Davis, Jade Emerson, Myriam Gonzalez, Angie Martinez, Elizabeth Sehon, Sonya Cisneros-Wierzowiecki, Shilo Urban, Sarah Langer Illustrators Amber Davis, Conny Gonzalez Digital Media Sarah Langer Have an idea or see a mistake? Tell us about it: editorial@onetoknowmagazine.com One To Know Magazine is a bimonthly, subscription-based publication. All rights reserved. Views and comments expressed by individuals do not necessarily represent those of the publishers, and no legal responsibility can be accepted for the result of the use by readers of information or advice of whatever kind given in this publication, either in editorial or advertisements. No part of this publication may be reprinted or duplicated without the prior permission of One To Know Magazine LLC. FOLLOW AND LIKE US
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“A second pandemic has hit the U.S. hard. It’s not airborne. It’s not spread in classrooms or congested office buildings. We can’t catch it by holding hands, hugging or kissing. It lives, breathes and replicates completely inside our minds, which affects every part of our life.” - Rising Numbers: Drowning in an Ongoing Pandemic, by Sarah Angle, P 60 “That local Mexican restaurant patio is most likely a snapshot recreation of someone’s childhood at their grandmother’s garden in Mexico. A patio that housed cages of parakeets and a constant trickle of water coming from an old hose that was used to water the tens of herbs that you couldn’t quite tell were alive or purposely being dried.” - It’s Pati-O’clock Somewhere, by Angie Martinez, P 70 “I learned how to listen with intention and learning, not to interject with self, to be able to listen through the noise or inkblots. It helps me keep my mind focused on what humans truly need sometimes, just someone to really listen.” - Rambo Elliott, LISTEN, by Jocelyn Foster Tatum, P 24
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their telephones.” She laid down a slim envelope. “The bus stop is six houses plus two blocks away. I must go.” - La Gringa Reloja, short story by Rebecca Balcarcel, P 42
[S P OT LIGH T] A R T C U R A T O R
An Art Curator’s Journey The Power of Art and Representation By Sarah Langer
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A n d r e a K a r n e s began working at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth as a receptionist in 1998 and has since touched every pulse of the museum’s heartbeat. While her job description then may have been to answer phones, the museum did not have the support staff back then that they do now. So, Andrea quickly found herself doing budgets, assisting the business manager, aiding the registrar and helping the curator. “I always tell young people who I talk to, especially those majoring in art history, that you’ve got to be willing to do anything in the beginning. You know, don’t stick to your job description, be willing to help people, be willing to do whatever it takes so you can figure out what you really love and the path to get there,” Andrea says. As her career evolved from the receptionist to research assistant and then registrar, Andrea discovered what she really loved: curation. She wanted to be able to give artists a platform because of the way they mirror important issues. “Artists who are working today are making work that usually is direct commentary on what’s happening in the world — historically, politically, and in pop culture today,” she says.
Andrea Karnes’ Photo by Evie Bishop, courtesy Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
As an advocate for artists with a pioneering spirit and someone who is paying attention to the world, it is only fitting that her first exhibit as chief curator is titled “Women Painting Women.” On May 15, this exhibition, international in scope, will feature the brave female pioneers of figurative painting from the 1960s into the 21st century. Andrea says nude painting was a white, maledominated field for most of history. That is until the female forerunners of figurative painting carved out a voice for themselves and began creating the art they desired to make, starting around the 1960s.
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Somaya Critchlow Untitled (Pink Hair), 2019 Oil on linen 10 x 8 1/4 inches Isabella Wolfson Townsley, London © Somaya Critchlow Image courtesy the artist and Maximillian William, London
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Hidden Figures The Making of a Cover By Jocelyn Foster Tatum
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Rambo Elliott knew almost right away who she wanted to illustrate her story on our cover, and I was dying to know who this big-souled creative genius was going to pick. When she named Fort Worth photographer and international luminary Letitia Huckaby for the project, we all wondered if we could get this artistic giant to illustrate our cover, with all she has going on. “Letitia is a living legend; it’s an absolute honor to have her photograph me,” Rambo says. Letitia has work in the Library of Congress collection and shows her work everywhere, from Galveston to California, Philadelphia, New York City, New Orleans and to Ireland and Vienna, Austria. Letitia’s process requires heirloom fabrics that create nostalgia in those who experience the art. It brings them back to their childhood or simpler times when maybe visiting grandmother for Sunday dinner or a sleepover. “It is a style I have been using already in my work,” Letitia says about the cover. “It’s kind of a silhouette where you can almost see the figure, and it is a style that was inspired by old feed sacks that sugar and flour would come in.” The feed sacks would arrive in these beautiful patterns, and women would repurpose the sacks to make clothing and different things for the house.
“With Rambo, she’s definitely a Southern girl, but she’s a glamorous Southern girl, if you will, a little bit mysterious until you get to know her, and then she really opens up,” Letitia says. “And so, I thought it would be nice to photograph her in that kind of style where everything is hidden, but you get little glimpses of her personality in this image.” At the photo shoot, Rambo saw a sheet patterned with memories that took her right back to 30 years ago in Arkansas, but it was too dark for them to use for this project. So, they worked together to pick the sheet — Letitia using her knowledge of what would work artistically and what would carry meaning and reflect Rambo, and Rambo picking what appealed to her as well that was reminiscent of her, delicate and feminine. It is a white sheet
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with little flowers. “I use that as the surface for the silhouette, so it is kind of like a nod to the past a little bit, and the cool thing is that when she was over here, she saw a bed sheet that reminded her of one from when she was a kid. So, these patterns have a kind of a nostalgia behind them,” Letitia says. “In this space, we will return to ourselves,” a statement at the Kinfolk House, a new collaborative art space that Letitia and her husband, Sedrick, opened a few months ago to uplift the art culture in Fort Worth’s Polytechnic neighborhood. It’s also something both Rambo and Letitia live by when practicing their craft.
In this space, we will return to ourselves.”
- L E T I T I A’ S K I N F O L K H O U S E
So, when Rambo walked into the photo shoot with gifts — lipstick, a dress and a card game — it was business as usual. She has this charming Southern habit of showing up to places with thoughtful gifts. Rambo also put on some music. It was a production maybe, a habit Rambo formed as a little girl to make experiences fun and pretty, and with a drive to entertain reminiscent of that trunk full of recital costumes (you need to read Rambo’s story to know). “She was thinking about the experience even though I was the one working,” Letitia says. It became an experience allowing them both to return to themselves.
Leticia put word out on social media that she needed new headshots for an exhibition she was putting on at Crystal Bridges. Her friend suggested Rambo because she said she would get it right, so Letitia reached out. Leticia says she is quite the opposite of Rambo on the glamour spectrum. She could live in sweatpants and sneakers, but Letitia says Rambo is so accepting of all women and that she felt she couldn’t really make a mistake. In this headshot, Rambo made her feel comfortable and natural; she felt seen.
Each issue we ask a local artist to design our cover, and we write about what inspired her design here in the Craft section of OTK Magazine. If you are interested in designing one of our covers, email art@onetoknowmagazine.com.
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he tassels on her short silver sequin dress sway in unison with her hips as she dances for the camera in front of a white backdrop in her living room. The “boss bitch” music plays in the background at a low volume. Megan Thee Stallion and City Girls are a few of her favorites. Her recovering rescue dog, Casey, a huge black German shepherd mix named after her father, watches her lovingly from the couch. That day it was self-portraits. Rambo Elliott becomes one of her subjects she photographs, healing through the playful and glamorous moment as she kicks up her heels and dances to the bossbitch beat, winking at the lens in her sparkling dress, black leather jacket and cowboy boots. This is when she gets to be creative. She feels beautiful, smiling for the camera and dancing without a client directing her or commenting on her looks. She prefers to pick the set and to do her own styling and makeup. This parallels the healing she brings to other women when she empowers them in a single shot. “Toss your hair,” she might suggest while they giggle, and she watches their face soften and posture change entirely. Healing. She loves to play and asks the same of her subjects. “Be in your body,” she says, hoping to bring them out of their overthinking heads, a side effect of societal conditioning. Looking through her work on her website and Instagram account, there is always movement, grounding and letting go. There is joy.
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Rambo is a celebrity photographer who grew up in the business with pop star Leon Bridges. She photographs the likes of Jon Batiste and Sarah Jaffe. Her images have been featured in GQ.com, Vogue.com, Rollingstone.com, NYTimes.com, Billboard.com and more. But even cooler is this Fort Worthian’s powerful vision for healing women. To say her path to success was a long and winding road would be a clichéd understatement. The road for this 36-year-old was, well, more like off-roading, in the mountains, full of giant rocks and massive tree roots. And her resilience through it all looks something like a monster truck with four-wheel drive. Rambo grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, where neighborhoods were divided by income and not race, so growing up she had friends from all backgrounds, and respect was their shared language. She also grew up going to AA meetings with her single mom and helping her father complete service work with heroin addicts in the streets of her hometown. He was making amends for his former life dealing and using drugs. Life at home was inconsistent as if living on a fault line or active volcano, never knowing when disaster would pummel the ground she stood on. It could be anything, big or small. Rambo now has a concatenation of dishes she collects — no two are the same, because heaven forbid if a dish broke in her childhood home. “Houses are meant to be lived in,” she says. Rambo doesn’t sleep well, and the insomnia has increased since her beloved service dog died just a few years ago. She’s hypervigilant, always observing her environment and the people in it, always paying attention, even if that means she is sleeping with one eye open. Maybe it goes back to the consistently erratic nature of her childhood home that results in a figurative humming sound you can’t figure out where it is coming from, but it assuredly leads to a grenade of sorts.