{"id":87307,"date":"2025-10-17T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/87307\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:24:11","slug":"moki-cherry-gets-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/87307\/","title":{"rendered":"Moki Cherry gets the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The work on view is primarily textile art, including many banners Moki made for the performances she and Don Cherry performed together. Called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/28\/arts\/music\/don-cherry-moki-cherry.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cOrganic Music,\u201d<\/a> the couple tried to break down barriers between the audience and the artist and make collaborative musical experiences that incorporated children and family life.<\/p>\n<p>The banners were used as theatrical adornments to foster audience interaction. Many depict Hindu figures. Don and Moki incorporated Indian musical styles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/media-and-interactives\/media\/international\/rhythm-and-raga\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">such as ragas<\/a>, into their collaborations. On \u201cBrown Rice,\u201d an album for which Moki designed the sleeve art, she can be heard performing the stringed tanpura.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey developed these extraordinary spaces that were like audio-visual happenings,\u201d said curator Mark Christman. \u201cThey supported a communal creative expression across languages, across borders, across communities and ages and abilities and ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The work on view is primarily textile art, including many banners Moki made for the performances she and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,14362,2964],"class_list":["post-87307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-museum","tag-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}