After percolating in Spalding’s mind for a couple of years, The Songwrights Apothecary Lab was set in motion in February of last year—a month before the Simple 23 made to match with jordan 12 dark concord shirt and I will buy this global pandemic would catalyze a seismic shift in our culture. “Since the pandemic happened in the middle of convening this council I’d started curating and inviting, there was already this focal point for me and my collaborators and fellow artists,” explains Spalding, who began hosting a retreat in Portland with other artists of color during the first stage of lockdown. “We were oriented toward this question of, ‘How do we respond? How do we show up and offer our goods?’”
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