Art Break

To Catch a Fish in 21st century contemporary culture is pretty easy, as mermaids are everywhere these days. From literature to film, art to advertising, mermaid museums to mermaid conferences (mercons), mermaids are surfacing and demanding attention. Today’s mermaids defy expectations of alabaster skin and blond hair, Christian ideals of female sexuality, and other genre conventions solidified in the wake of Hans Christen Andersen’s The Little Mermaid (1837) and Disney’s famous animated adaptation of it (1989). Today’s mermaids are Black and Brown, sexually fluid, and grounded in indigeneity.…

• Watch or listen
• Just show up
• A group of friends
• Going solo
• Art exhibits
• Author talks & readings
• Indoors
• Learn something