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Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo
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Brooklyn-based Colombian artist, educator, and parent. Professor of Integrated Design at The New School's Parsons School of Design. Director, DEED Research Lab focused on the indigenous and traditional artisan sector.
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This week’s #BlueSkyArtShow entry. Theme is #inside.

Photographed in Folégandros, Greece. #nofilter
Looking out to the sea through a wooden door that’s ajar. The sky is blue and the water below it, bluer.
October 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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The sun sets in #Atlanta, as seen in the penthouse recreation space of a senior living community.

My entry for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow, with the theme #vertical.

#nofilter
The sun sets in #Atlanta, as seen in the penthouse recreation space of a senior living community. You see a gorgeous sky through tall windows behind a ping pong table under an elegant chandelier.
October 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Here’s my entry for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow, theme #TheRoad.

#upsidedown #puddlegram of people working on a #Brooklyn #street

#nofilter
Upside down photo of people doing work in a road in Brooklyn, reflected in a big puddle.
September 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Home

#colorphotography #architecture #lookingdown #stairwell #kids
Photo of two kids walking down a stairwell holding rainbow umbrellas
September 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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2020, epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. #Summer was a blur--schools had been closed for months already. With 5-year-olds at home, these were the moments that most nurtured us. This was the peak of “summer” that year, and which we hold with so much gratitude and love.

#BlueSkyArtShow
A color photograph of 4 kids playing at sunset in the water. One is jumping up, surrounded by 3 kids. You see the horizon and sunset colors in the sky in the background.
September 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I’ve always loved photographing #shiny surfaces in the built environment. Here, I’ve rotated this photo of an empty apartment with a shiny marble floor.

#florida #interiors #lookingout #bluesky #blueskyartshow
Rotated photograph of an apartment and its balcony looking out on a blue sky and tropical vegetation
August 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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A #skyline for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow.

Inside or outside?
Trapped or free?
Fog or smog?

#nyc #photography
A gloomy photo of the NYC skyline seen through a metal fence
August 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Colorful #pieces for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow.

#craft #ribbon #yarn #multicolor #photography
Wooden shelves full of various colors and sizes of ribbon on spools Wooden shelves with bundles of yarn of all colors Wooden shelves full of bundles of yarn
August 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Here’s my entry for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow with the theme #Jagged.

#boy climbing a rock in Île d'Yeu, France

#photography #nofilter #bluesky
White clouds interspersed across a blue sky above the ocean. In the foreground, a large rock on a sandy beach. A boy is climbing the rock in an elevated crawl position
August 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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The nerdy tattle-tale in me grew up to be an academic who loves calling out designers who plagiarize and culturally appropriate. The latest is #Adidas x #WillyChavarría. Here’s what I wrote (including learning resources!): deed.parsons.edu/2025/08/07/c...

#culturalappropriation #acasky #huaraches
Screenshot of a blog post that reads Cultural Appropriation? Willy Chavarría x Adidas’ “Oaxaca Slip-On” Statement from the Secretary of Cultures and Arts of Oaxaca (provided by Cultural Documentalist Laura Quiroz) On Sunday, August 3, 2025, designer Willy Chavarría unveiled his latest collaboration with Adidas—the “Oaxaca Slip-On” (see images here). While the shoe is being celebrated as a “nod to Chicano culture” and a “revival of Mexican tradition,” the Secretary of Cultures and Arts of the State of Oaxaca claims that Chavarría and Adidas have neglected to credit the Yalalag Community, “whose traditional huaraches were used as the aesthetic basis for the footwear.” This accusation of cultural appropriation is now being widely reported, including on CNN.com (August 6, 2025).
August 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I was with my kids so I then showed them this work from artist Sarah Ross's "Archisuits" (2005-06) which powerfully fills "the negative space of the structure designed to deny" certain people.

#iykyk #urbandesign #safestreets #politicalart #subversiveart #mta #nyc
A white woman lies on a series of soft-looking blocks designed to create one seamless flat surface on a bench that has been otherwise fragmented to prevent anyone from laying on it.
July 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Yesterday, I had noticed these new dividers in NYC Union Square's turnstiles, so this morning I stopped to ask an MTA worker what they were for. She explained that they are to prevent people from jumping over as now, they don't have anything on which to hold. (And, that edge would hurt if grabbed!)
The backs of two people who are about to walk through a turnstile at a subway station in NYC. You can see the OMNY scanning screen and also large dividers between each turnstile. Close-up of a turnstile divider with a jagged edge, in polished metal.
July 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Cross writes about #ReynerBanham's conference opening (keynote?) which succinctly sums up the "professional man's" (designer!) paradox of wanting to solve problems but not necessarily ever getting to root causes.

#designresearch #codesign #participatorydesign #design
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July 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Re-working a case study for a journal submission and grateful to have stumbled on this out-of-print gem from 1972 -- Nigel Cross's "Design Participation" (proceedings from a Design Research Society conference). Great range of critique on #participatorydesign #codesign #designpractice.
Screenshot of a book cover in red background with white boxes in a grid (suggesting a facade) with one of them in red ornamentation.
July 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Here’s my entry for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow with the theme of #Alternating.

Alternating…
between inside and outside.
between water and sky.
between natural and constructed.

#photography #insideout #folegandros #greece #nofilter #bluesky
Photo of a window and through it you see a white concrete terrace and past it blue sea and sky.
July 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I missed this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow but the theme of #Smooth is such a perfect descriptor of today’s water on the #LongIslandSound. #paddleboarder #horizon

#nofilter #noedit
Photo of water and sky. In the distance you can see a very small paddle boarder
July 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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#CentralPark

#bandwphotography
Black and white photo of Central Park taken from an airplane window
July 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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#Downtown #Manhattan
Black and white photo of downtown Manhattan taken from an airplane window
July 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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#GovernorsIsland #blackandwhitephotography
View of Governors Island in black and white from an airplane window
July 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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#GreenwoodCemetery and #ProspectPark in #Brooklyn #blackandwhite
Black and while photo of Brooklyn outside an airplane window
July 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Beautiful views of #Brooklyn and #Manhattan landing in #LGA earlier today. Son and I spotted these favorites
Small hand pointing out an airplane window to a coastal city in the distance
July 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Scene from today’s #juryduty. I really appreciated the slow rhythms of the day, which are fully in line with this day coming every 8 years.
Tall wooden desk with a person behind it and a large government seal in the background
May 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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In observance of May Day/International Workers' Day I'm hosting this event with guest economist Raphaële Chappe.

#Craft, #Capitalism, and the #Future of #Artisan #Labor
TODAY, May 7th 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST
Register here to receive the Zoom link
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#academicsky
On the left, a black & white illustration of a "Cable Piano" factory, and on the right, a photograph of hands working with colorful threads in what looks like a set-up for a backstrap loom.
May 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Here’s a timeline “palate cleanser” or, perhaps, a “speed bump.”

#redhouse #snowylandscape #bluesky #vermont #usa #photography
Photo of a snowy landscape. Pile of snow in front, a field of white snow follows, with a red house peeking out, and a cloudless blue sky above.
February 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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This is tomorrow morning. Please join us and spread the word to anyone interested in #glitchart #digitalaesthetics #designeducation and more!
On the left, a woman smiling in black and white with a button down shirt. On the right, an image that seems to have experienced digital glitching.
February 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM