http://www.andreaclairemorningstar.com/bringing-up-detroit daily 0.75 2020-02-17 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56721a261c12107098686938/t/5e4b0afbc1cd5653bfb618e9/1581974101191/ Bringing Up Detroit - Dinner in Detroit Christina Lumpkin's grandchildren playing in her apartment as she makes dinner. Detroit, 2015 Photo and Video of the lives of three different Detroit families preparing and eating dinner. Made in collaboration with Zak Rosen for Michigan Radio. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56721a261c12107098686938/5677694adc5cb43d5a9e9a3b/56776c51b204d55fb345d612/1581974101191/mschris10.jpg Bringing Up Detroit - Dinner in Detroit Christina Lumpkin's grandchildren playing in her apartment as she makes dinner. Detroit, 2015 Photo and Video of the lives of three different Detroit families preparing and eating dinner. Made in collaboration with Zak Rosen for Michigan Radio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1453421973311-L0BMBJKGBLRCBKKE20AQ/image-asset.jpeg Bringing Up Detroit - Dinner in Detroit A Photo and Video series of the lives of three different Detroit families preparing and eating dinner. Made in collaboration with Zak Rosen for Michigan Radio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450666350681-RZQCFT0A6DFFU2YM91P4/image-asset.jpeg Bringing Up Detroit - Dinner with Ms. Chris East side Detroit resident Christina Lumpkin makes dinner for her grandchildren and reflects upon the things in her life for which she is grateful. Produced in partnership with Michigan Radio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450834291225-40U7WG3ULLKZWC03BALO/IMG_0513.JPG Bringing Up Detroit Mr. and Mrs. Chang discuss the differences of life in Detroit vs. life in Laos. Detroit, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450666424178-11WKPMZ1OZFIPZRZL1UY/image-asset.jpeg Bringing Up Detroit - Dinner with The Chang Family Meet The Chang Family, a first generation Hmong family that is one of the last remaining in Detroit’s Osborn neighborhood. This video is the first installment of a three part series on dinner with Detroiters. Made in collaboration with radio producer Zak Rosen and Michigan Radio. michiganradio.org, apiaryprojects.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450834266974-5HBF8J2WR4T705RS2CKL/dinnerchangs1.jpg Bringing Up Detroit Dinner with the Chang Family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1455641561262-HFM96AHBPL5FLSMMO14F/image-asset.jpeg Bringing Up Detroit - Dinner with the Rittenour-Grassi Family Meet the Rittenour-Grassi family: relative newcomers to Detroit who just moved to a home in Corktown. This is one of several Detroit families featured as part of the Bringing Up Detroit series on Michigan Radio. To meet more of the families featured check out http://michiganradio.org/topic/bringing-detroit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450667095083-IHMFWPNBJNY0UHTJYFLG/mschris17.jpg Bringing Up Detroit Christina Lumpkin and Grandson. Detroit, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450834313373-C4PHNM0WGUC05UT35LTD/IMG_0370.JPG Bringing Up Detroit Bao Chang, Detroit 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450667095868-7HQMPHTOEXZRYUZ68XX7/mschris18.jpg Bringing Up Detroit Christina Lumpkin prepares dinner for her family. Detroit, 2015. http://www.andreaclairemorningstar.com/burn-this-boat daily 0.75 2018-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450832372922-UPQZUHW3CUKILVGHTPP8/boatinstallation1.jpg Burn This Boat - Burn This Boat: Video Installation This piece is the culmination of video and audio recordings made during a year long journey down the Mississippi River as part of a flotilla of homemade houseboats whose inhabitants have made a conscious choice to live beyond societal conventions. Living off of foraged food, catfish, scraps from the trash, and food bank hand outs, and traveling in boats made from scraps of other boats, ply wood, plastic barrels and even and old Volkswagon, the crew of this armada invents their lives on a daily basis. This three channel video installation immerses the viewer in the sights sand sounds of life along a lush, deeply american, dystopian wilderness that was once the country's economic superhighway. Exhibited at Innova gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and as part of the True/False film festival in Columbia, Missouri. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450832372922-UPQZUHW3CUKILVGHTPP8/boatinstallation1.jpg Burn This Boat - Burn This Boat: Video Installation This piece is the culmination of video and audio recordings made during a year long journey down the Mississippi River as part of a flotilla of homemade houseboats whose inhabitants have made a conscious choice to live beyond societal conventions. Living off of foraged food, catfish, scraps from the trash, and food bank hand outs, and traveling in boats made from scraps of other boats, ply wood, plastic barrels and even and old Volkswagon, the crew of this armada invents their lives on a daily basis. This three channel video installation immerses the viewer in the sights sand sounds of life along a lush, deeply american, dystopian wilderness that was once the country's economic superhighway. Exhibited at Innova gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and as part of the True/False film festival in Columbia, Missouri. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1542231171680-NG7GVOJRPIIEBJ2O4KAG/image-asset.jpeg Burn This Boat - Burn This Boat - Teaser Time spent with Evan, Dave and their cadre of boat folks... started this project on one of their earlier trips on the Tombigbee and then continued with them on their next big trip on the Mississippi River. This footage is primarily from the first short film I made, and a little of the footage from the year long journey... The footage has had many incarnations: as part of a multi-media performance piece, gallery installations and a short film. http://www.andreaclairemorningstar.com/cody-high daily 0.75 2015-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663783915-G4SJ8GDSWAH1QMNO55B7/coachknight1_web.jpg Mister Knight's Neighborhood Coach Knight. Detroit, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663783915-G4SJ8GDSWAH1QMNO55B7/coachknight1_web.jpg Mister Knight's Neighborhood Coach Knight. Detroit, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450664287030-S7J2BQZHMITC9REKU8ML/image-asset.jpeg Mister Knight's Neighborhood - Mister Knight's Neighborhood: Coach Knight Featuring Coach Knight, Communities and Schools site coordinator, Cody High Dean of Culture and football coach. This piece was made in collaboration with Jennifer Guerra for her documentary radio story by the same name.stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org/post/mister-knights-neighborhood-documentary, apiaryprojects.com,michiganradio.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663808806-R7LIF2OSR4GLUBRWVSKM/k2_web.jpg Mister Knight's Neighborhood Kaylan, Detroit, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450664526101-MLHYIBZIOSPOXMC21ZVA/image-asset.jpeg Mister Knight's Neighborhood - Mister Knight's Neighborhood: Kaylan Cody High School, Detroit Michigan. This video features Kaylan, a student being mentored by Coach Knight, who is featured in Jennifer Guerra's radio documentary for Michigan Radio titled "Mister Knight's Neighborhood".stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org/post/mister-knights-neighborhood-documentary, michiganradio.org, apiaryprojects.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663807385-H8XVWQ8NSWO6WKZNV6BA/kevin00_web.jpg Mister Knight's Neighborhood Kevin. Detroit, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450664631504-4IAJF8SA2B8RUY8T41WP/image-asset.jpeg Mister Knight's Neighborhood - Mister Knight's Neighborhood: Kevin Cody High School, Detroit Michigan. This video features Kevin, a student being mentored by Coach Knight, who is featured in Jennifer Guerra's radio documentary for Michigan Radio titled "Mister Knight's Neighborhood". Listen to the entire audio piece here: stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org/post/mister-knights-neighborhood-documentary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663806864-ZZX9NO5RL16AQAI44F8F/kevin%27smom_web.jpg Mister Knight's Neighborhood Kevin's Mom. Detroit, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663804711-LS2PB342TXW6Q5C2CWAX/kevin%27slist_web.jpg Mister Knight's Neighborhood Kevin's goals. Detroit, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663811316-7YTPNHOB2MBS0SNC54FH/kevin4_web.jpg Mister Knight's Neighborhood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663787567-6GJJK71J7K1QC410S65L/coachknight10_web.jpg Mister Knight's Neighborhood http://www.andreaclairemorningstar.com/welcome daily 0.75 2013-07-09 http://www.andreaclairemorningstar.com/work daily 1.0 2024-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450666745629-S34O2X04VREML6ZU3NTS/Fs38LjfznE4WwxFqgs-BZuvGN-mLP8GpucTdSeNIAPs.jpg Work James Eck Rippie, sound artist. Lake Ann, Michigan. Back to Your Senses is a series of short video portraits about people in Northern Michigan leaving the safety of what they know for the sake of what they love in a time of economic crisis. Completed and premiered in 2013 for an artist's residency in Northern Michigan at Eastern Michigan University's Jean Parsons Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1451253221485-7H5EBKAI9BFENKMBLC2T/tc_reddress.jpg Work Yuri Namkung, Violinist. Frankfort, Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1451253268681-D6QCR2C99YC79ZAVQ2PT/vafeYKNJlCkMgmEBu8Vm9fcQUlrWwK76gvUHDNJClKk.jpg Work Erik Peterson, Carpenter. Empire, Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1451253593841-I2T4X2JP871M0DNUZU1W/Screen+Shot+2013-04-11+at+6.03.42+AM.png Work William Apostle aka "Billy Strings", Musician, Traverse City, Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450328672295-BEIIZXCK20TF5BAIY0Y5/glb_GraceandJulia+copy.jpg Work - IN LOVE & STRUGGLE : The James and Grace Lee Boggs School Grace Lee Boggs and Julia Putnam in front of teachers, staff, students and family at the first Grace Lee Boggs day celebration at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School. Grace Lee Boggs turned 99 that day. The following videos and photos were made in collaboration with Zak Rosen for Michigan Radio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450328671620-VKK1OBXBJNMX4K9CMUN8/glb_father.jpg Work First day of school. Father and daughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450328671711-4V0H1Q98VJ01FQ2BGQ28/glb_.jpg Work - "I was young once, just like you" Grace Lee Boggs addresses the first class of students at the first year celebration of Grace Lee Boggs day at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450328672613-758N8NERCPG9YAQBIUNB/glb_hands.jpg Work A tender moment with Grace Lee Boggs on her name day at the Boggs School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450328672097-H30Z7VWXU2DBAHDPS2M8/glb_grace.jpg Work Grace Lee Boggs smiles at a Boggs school student on her name day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1582138687765-N3369CA26DKMDWN9KGVT/Screen+Shot+2020-02-19+at+12.56.32+PM.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1582145132830-RAH5ITBKMMUE1DTUSWEY/Screen+Shot+2020-02-19+at+1.03.08+PM.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450832372922-UPQZUHW3CUKILVGHTPP8/boatinstallation1.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1582136981461-X3KFAUQ3ZGTJ6VW41LV7/Screen+Shot+2020-02-19+at+9.23.56+AM.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1582137734036-KGMIA4JQVMU1JOE3929Z/OMS_Maio.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1582137657622-YBVAM8Z1YBX7ZHMU6RB4/SleeperLakeFire.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1582136874637-LVHP9YETPL1J9MJ3SDR1/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-02-19%2Bat%2B12.24.22%2BPM.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1582064308881-ITQL068MXAEZX54O0E21/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-02-18%2Bat%2B3.48.02%2BPM.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450665856089-YT4ZCDGW3Y2T7D4VFFAP/a8ccc613807a038c98ffe42d29433a1e.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1582064256750-VDC9FJOMW7FHLJ7PXIA1/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-02-18%2Bat%2B4.14.06%2BPM.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1475264333815-61QNI4O0BUXIX7146524/Screen+Shot+2016-09-30+at+3.22.15+PM.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1581977936780-9UQJN35TKWOX7YQQHY6G/Screen+Shot+2020-02-17+at+4.18.03+PM.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450832372922-UPQZUHW3CUKILVGHTPP8/boatinstallation1.jpg Work - Burn This Boat: Video Installation (Copy) This piece is the culmination of video and audio recordings made during a year long journey down the Mississippi River as part of a flotilla of homemade houseboats whose inhabitants have made a conscious choice to live beyond societal conventions. Living off of foraged food, catfish, scraps from the trash, and food bank hand outs, and traveling in boats made from scraps of other boats, ply wood, plastic barrels and even and old Volkswagon, the crew of this armada invents their lives on a daily basis. This three channel video installation immerses the viewer in the sights sand sounds of life along a lush, deeply american, dystopian wilderness that was once the country's economic superhighway. Exhibited at Innova gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and as part of the True/False film festival in Columbia, Missouri. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1582172906322-2SS0GBR3TE8OECM97IEX/z_thorandcharlie.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1582173739213-6TENLDFJWLL1J9HJMEON/tc_JamesonICE.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1582145132830-RAH5ITBKMMUE1DTUSWEY/Screen+Shot+2020-02-19+at+1.03.08+PM.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1582175169394-SIG0TNXK5QGHD8MA043N/Screen+Shot+2020-02-19+at+11.03.50+PM.png Work http://www.andreaclairemorningstar.com/bunchys-block-party daily 0.75 2015-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663112026-743BZUVAE609OWPUP7LN/bb_astar.jpg Bunchy's Block Party - Bunchy's Block Party Photographs and video about an annual event run by Yusef "Bunchy" Shakhur. "Bunchy" has worked to reduce crime and create deeper community through empowerment in the neighborhood where he grew up- a neighborhood notorious for crime and blight. The video was directed by Andrea Claire Morningstar for Good Problem Productions and Michigan Roundtable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663112026-743BZUVAE609OWPUP7LN/bb_astar.jpg Bunchy's Block Party - Bunchy's Block Party Photographs and video about an annual event run by Yusef "Bunchy" Shakhur. "Bunchy" has worked to reduce crime and create deeper community through empowerment in the neighborhood where he grew up- a neighborhood notorious for crime and blight. The video was directed by Andrea Claire Morningstar for Good Problem Productions and Michigan Roundtable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663070498-YQABTAL0P56YKM0SDW3C/image-asset.jpeg Bunchy's Block Party - Restoring the Neighbor Back to the 'Hood: Yusef "Bunchy" Shakur and Michigan Roundtable's Race2Equity For 9 years, Yusef "Bunchy" Shakur has been hosting an annual backpack giveaway and block party on the street where he grew up as part of his "Restoring the Neighbor Back to the Hood" initiative. This past year he partnered with Michigan Roundtable to add a storytelling element to the event. Michigan Roundtable's Race2Equity project and exhibit "We Don't Want Them Here" was featured on the first floor of the future "Restoring the Neighbor Back to Hood" community center. In this video we meet Yusef, the people involved with the exhibit, see the neighborhood, and learn about their powerful collaboration. Directed by @apiarydetroit, produced by Good Problem Productions. To learn more please visit: yusefshakur.org, race2equity.org/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663142501-56263ZE2492STCKKIN4V/bb_frisbee.jpg Bunchy's Block Party https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663143067-DSXGIUOEOTKXC1277XLD/bb_pinkglasses.jpg Bunchy's Block Party https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663143298-M7CCUJYN29T5HMT102NI/bb_peace2.jpg Bunchy's Block Party https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450663142211-AOC7T6I7NHDVZSXJ52SZ/bb_bunchy.jpg Bunchy's Block Party http://www.andreaclairemorningstar.com/motor-city-horseman daily 0.75 2018-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450329521228-TTLMV0RHMGBF8XV12FTJ/image-asset.jpeg MOTOR CITY HORSEMAN - Motor City Horseman Along the streets of urban Detroit a self styled cowboy named Durrel Montgomery rides his horse with a mission in mind. 'They say what's good for the outside of a horse is good for the inside of man' Durrel tells us. He believes that working with horses kept him out of trouble as a kid and taught him important values. Today he dreams of passing those values on to a new generation of Detroit youth by starting a riding center in the city. In this short film we meet Durrel, see him riding through the city and taking care of his horse at his ranch with his son, and sitting down for a drink by his fire at the end of his day. Original Score by Flint Eastwood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450329521228-TTLMV0RHMGBF8XV12FTJ/image-asset.jpeg MOTOR CITY HORSEMAN - Motor City Horseman Along the streets of urban Detroit a self styled cowboy named Durrel Montgomery rides his horse with a mission in mind. 'They say what's good for the outside of a horse is good for the inside of man' Durrel tells us. He believes that working with horses kept him out of trouble as a kid and taught him important values. Today he dreams of passing those values on to a new generation of Detroit youth by starting a riding center in the city. In this short film we meet Durrel, see him riding through the city and taking care of his horse at his ranch with his son, and sitting down for a drink by his fire at the end of his day. Original Score by Flint Eastwood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450731596010-UZGB1NLKW2X8B4HCN4VN/bbandjr_web.jpg MOTOR CITY HORSEMAN - Motor City Horseman Durell Montgomery is a self identified cowboy from Detroit, Michigan. His dream is to start a therapeutic riding center within the city limits. Every weekend, with the help of his son (pictured here) he brings his horses into the neighborhood where he grew up to give people rides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450731622297-1CSTZ6G5INLFYV9RY6VO/jrandpony_web.jpg MOTOR CITY HORSEMAN http://www.andreaclairemorningstar.com/loveandstruggle daily 0.75 2020-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450328672295-BEIIZXCK20TF5BAIY0Y5/glb_GraceandJulia+copy.jpg LOVE & STRUGGLE - IN LOVE & STRUGGLE : The James and Grace Lee Boggs School Grace Lee Boggs and Julia Putnam in front of teachers, staff, students and family at the first Grace Lee Boggs day celebration at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School. Grace Lee Boggs turned 99 that day. The following videos and photos were made in collaboration with Zak Rosen for Michigan Radio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450328672295-BEIIZXCK20TF5BAIY0Y5/glb_GraceandJulia+copy.jpg LOVE & STRUGGLE - IN LOVE & STRUGGLE : The James and Grace Lee Boggs School Grace Lee Boggs and Julia Putnam in front of teachers, staff, students and family at the first Grace Lee Boggs day celebration at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School. Grace Lee Boggs turned 99 that day. The following videos and photos were made in collaboration with Zak Rosen for Michigan Radio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450653501833-CCILPNFRTSHQD5IG2Y9V/image-asset.jpeg LOVE & STRUGGLE - Julia: Boggs School Principal This year something has changed. Julia Putnam feels like she's really become "a grown-up". Here, she reflects upon her first year as the principal of a new charter elementary school on the east side of Detroit, Michigan. The school is named after her mentor, Grace Lee Boggs, who she met when she was sixteen years old. Julia is now 38 and Grace is 99. We meet Julia, Grace, the students at The James and Grace Lee Boggs School and learn about their path "in love and struggle". For more on the Boggs school please visit: boggsschool.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450328671620-VKK1OBXBJNMX4K9CMUN8/glb_father.jpg LOVE & STRUGGLE First day of school. Father and daughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450653569951-G8OEV6QAZB7FZZK084KY/image-asset.jpeg LOVE & STRUGGLE - Chris & Ariel: Best Friends and Boggs School Students Chris and Ariel are students at The James and Grace Lee Boggs School. They're best friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450328671711-4V0H1Q98VJ01FQ2BGQ28/glb_.jpg LOVE & STRUGGLE - "I was young once, just like you" Grace Lee Boggs addresses the first class of students at the first year celebration of Grace Lee Boggs day at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450653610462-LNJFBDU2U2YVH5BTFIO8/image-asset.jpeg LOVE & STRUGGLE - Whitney & Zoe: Boggs School Secretary and her daughter Whitney Walker is the Secretary at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit, MI. Her daughter Zoe attends the school. Whitney is also a poet. Here she reads a poem she wrote about her transformative experience working at the school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450328672613-758N8NERCPG9YAQBIUNB/glb_hands.jpg LOVE & STRUGGLE A tender moment with Grace Lee Boggs on her name day at the Boggs School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450653754207-KVI8C92R3J5DEW85GLA0/image-asset.jpeg LOVE & STRUGGLE - Bentley: A kindergarten student at the Boggs School Bentley is a student in the kindergarten class at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School; a new charter school on Detroit's east side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450328672097-H30Z7VWXU2DBAHDPS2M8/glb_grace.jpg LOVE & STRUGGLE Grace Lee Boggs smiles at a Boggs school student on her name day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450653815037-2PHK2JZX1LBBLKOEWA29/image-asset.jpeg LOVE & STRUGGLE - Field Trip: Boggs students take a walk to some place special in their neighborhood The students and staff at The James and Grace Lee Boggs School take a walking field trip to The Heidelberg Project, and meet the artist, Tyree Guyton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1453300050298-4L4TEA2JBP2MZAYPBYMH/image-asset.jpeg LOVE & STRUGGLE - Conversations in our Neighborhood: Oral History Club at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School The Oral History Club at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School is a small, dedicated group of grade school students who stay after school to interview members of their community- most of whom have a relationship to the building they now call their school. The neighborhood that the Boggs school calls home is one that has faced a lot of challenges in recent years and its history, and inhabitants are rapidly disappearing. These conversations serve as a learning experience for the students, a preservation of history via anecdotal stories of the people who have lived in the neighborhood for decades, and, ultimately as a community building experience: brining the kids and elder members of their community closer together. Featured in the video are interviewees: Art "Red" Tabb, Tyree Guyton, Hali Giessler. Students include: Na'Kyah Ngozi Marie Adjuman, Lucia Putnam, Maya Nicole Wheeler, Jacob Michael Wheeler, Rene' McLemore. Special Thanks to: H. T. Ewald Foundation, Greg Katcher, Pewabic Pottery, Yoga’s 1000 Petal Lotus, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Avalon Bakery, The Red Hook, Bill Wanderwill, Bree Dominick, Atticus Keesling, Sindbad’s, Sister Pie, Detroit Vegan Soul, Seva, Marianne Feldman, Mama Hanifa Adjuman, Rebecca Wheeler, Joe Reilly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1453300188680-E4V1HDW1IB8D1WQPPOXO/image-asset.jpeg LOVE & STRUGGLE - Oral History Club at The James and Grace Lee Boggs School 2014 Made for an event celebrating the Oral History Club's first semester at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit, Michigan. http://www.andreaclairemorningstar.com/sleeper-lake-fire daily 0.75 2015-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1451498003944-Z0CFMY1L6U8UL5HJ3MDS/image-asset.png Sleeper Lake Fire - Sleeper Lake Fire Part documentary, part self portrait, this experimental documentary follows the filmmaker's night embedded with a wilderness fire fighting crew on the overnight shift, putting out the final hot spots of one of Michigan's largest wilderness fires ever. Narrated by the crew leader, Jeff Noble, reading an essay he wrote about the experience and intercut with footage of the filmmaker on the land after the fire and in her hotel room in the sleepless day after her experience- the film explores the interchanging roles of the observer and the observed in the process of documenting a shared experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1451498003944-Z0CFMY1L6U8UL5HJ3MDS/image-asset.png Sleeper Lake Fire - Sleeper Lake Fire Part documentary, part self portrait, this experimental documentary follows the filmmaker's night embedded with a wilderness fire fighting crew on the overnight shift, putting out the final hot spots of one of Michigan's largest wilderness fires ever. Narrated by the crew leader, Jeff Noble, reading an essay he wrote about the experience and intercut with footage of the filmmaker on the land after the fire and in her hotel room in the sleepless day after her experience- the film explores the interchanging roles of the observer and the observed in the process of documenting a shared experience. http://www.andreaclairemorningstar.com/backtoyoursenses daily 0.75 2018-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450666745629-S34O2X04VREML6ZU3NTS/Fs38LjfznE4WwxFqgs-BZuvGN-mLP8GpucTdSeNIAPs.jpg BACK TO YOUR SENSES James Eck Rippie, sound artist. Lake Ann, Michigan. Back to Your Senses is a series of short video portraits about people in Northern Michigan leaving the safety of what they know for the sake of what they love in a time of economic crisis. Completed and premiered in 2013 for an artist's residency in Northern Michigan at Eastern Michigan University's Jean Parsons Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450666745629-S34O2X04VREML6ZU3NTS/Fs38LjfznE4WwxFqgs-BZuvGN-mLP8GpucTdSeNIAPs.jpg BACK TO YOUR SENSES James Eck Rippie, sound artist. Lake Ann, Michigan. Back to Your Senses is a series of short video portraits about people in Northern Michigan leaving the safety of what they know for the sake of what they love in a time of economic crisis. Completed and premiered in 2013 for an artist's residency in Northern Michigan at Eastern Michigan University's Jean Parsons Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450662568756-EH2FFT24WQK0J5A8WHZK/image-asset.jpeg BACK TO YOUR SENSES - Back to Your Senses: James A profile of sound artist James Eck Rippie. "Most striking to me, during our interviews, was the driving force behind James' work as an artist. He wants to live a life in which everyone is more highly aware of their surroundings, and he wants to make work that demands that level of awareness from others. His work is a call to come "Back to Your Senses" in a very literal way; asking the receiver be fully present in the moment, and experience the nuances of their own perception." Camera, Director, Editor: Andrea Claire Morningstar Sound: James Eck Rippie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1451253221485-7H5EBKAI9BFENKMBLC2T/tc_reddress.jpg BACK TO YOUR SENSES Yuri Namkung, Violinist. Frankfort, Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450468627362-BXIM1WSAQLEFMNXBED1P/image-asset.jpeg BACK TO YOUR SENSES - Back to Your Senses: Emily Recently Emily left New York City, where she had a successful career working for magazines including The New Yorker, GQ, and Gourmet, to return to her home state of Michigan, and live a life more in line with her ideals. Here, the tiny village of Elberta, on the shores of Lake Michigan, Emily is working to revive a long retired community newspaper, and to turn her small plot of land within the village limits, into a homestead that can sustain her. Producer, Director, Editor: Andrea Claire Morningstar Camera: Jeff Morgan Music: Mildew and Star https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1451253268681-D6QCR2C99YC79ZAVQ2PT/vafeYKNJlCkMgmEBu8Vm9fcQUlrWwK76gvUHDNJClKk.jpg BACK TO YOUR SENSES Erik Peterson, Carpenter. Empire, Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450468590478-Z4JQ1IET8XD92F0WKFX9/image-asset.jpeg BACK TO YOUR SENSES - Back to Your Senses: Zoe This is Zoe Moseler. Her parents, Mark and Mandy Moseler, former public school teachers, are taking a big leap. They're putting all their resources towards starting an artisan distillery in Northwestern Lower Michigan. They've sold their house, and are squatting Zoe's grandma's house, and hoping for the best. Zoe has a plan of her own; she's making jewelry out of a special stone that can only be found in the region where her folks are hoping to start their business. Producer, Director, Editor: Andrea Claire Morningstar Camera: Jeff Morgan Score: Mildew and Star https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450468680707-3WVMV5ZVZ6TINZ3UDE53/image-asset.jpeg BACK TO YOUR SENSES - Back to Your Senses: Mark & Mandy Mark and Mandy Moseler, former public school teachers in Michigan who left teaching to start their own artisan micro-distillery. This piece chronicles their leap into being small business owners at a time of economic and environmental uncertainty. It also features their daughter Zoe, who was featured in micro-episode #1. 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This film follows “Z” and his chosen family as they run the “Unicorn Cove School of Metaphysics”, open a low sodium bakery, and make a feature length science fiction film starring themselves as gods and goddesses who reincarnate throughout history to protect the earth from a malevolent alien race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450328740997-W6LJV70AKX3XHL0RKACG/z_horsehealer1.jpg THE UNICORN Ahura Z, "The Unicorn" does a healing session with a horse he has become close to while filming his sci-fi film who has suddenly become gravely ill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56721a261c12107098686938/1450328741426-XK4ZMOT510C7JT3WLDXF/z_parting.jpg THE UNICORN "The Unicorn" in Director mode. 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