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This documentary shorts series from American Masters and Firelight Media follows emerging cultural icons on their journeys to becoming masters of their artistic disciplines. See how their work explores and influences American culture today.

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Season 2

Chef Ethan Lim.
Ethan Lim: Cambodian Futures
Senghor Reid: Make Way For Tomorrow
Artist Walshy Fire.
Walshy Fire: Pull Up
Poet Alejandro Jimenez.
Alejandro Jimenez: The Ground I Stand On
Artist Jonathan Thunder
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
Actress Lily Gladstone.
Lily Gladstone: Far Out There

Season 1

Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio: This Is the Way We Rise
Amyra León: Strange Grace
Damon Davis: Apologue for the Darkest Gods
Anik Khan: Street Level
Maia Cruz Palileo: Becoming the Moon
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: The New Chief
Vincent Valdez: The Beginning is Near
Bunky Echo-Hawk: The Resistance

Written Features

Lily Gladstone: Far Out There
Brooke Pepion Swaney on working with actress Lily Gladstone
Ethan Lim: Cambodian Futures
The culinary slang of Cambodian cuisine
Senghor Reid: Make Way For Tomorrow
Water is a pathway to healing for this Detroit artist
Walshy Fire: Pull Up
The dancehall artist embracing positivity in nightlife music
Lily Gladstone: Far Out There
Re-Presentation
Alejandro Jimenez: The Ground I Stand On
Alejandro Jimenez’s poetry exists beyond borders 
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
Ojibwe myths in the art of Jonathan Thunder 
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
This Detroit muralist paints “loud and large” love letters to her city
Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio: This Is the Way We Rise
“On the Frontlines of Maunakea” by poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
Amyra León: Strange Grace
8 emerging BIPOC artists you should know

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