WHEN JENNIFER KOH AND DAVÓNE TINES’S PATHS CROSSED, THEY SAW IN EACH OTHER AN ALLY STRUGGLING WITH THE SAME ISSUE: BEING AN ARTIST OF COLOR IN A CULTURE DOMINATED BY WHITENESS. EVERYTHING RISES IS BOTH A RECORD AND ARTISTIC PRODUCT OF THAT MUTUAL ENCOUNTER. IT IS ABOUT CONNECTION, RESONANCE, AND THE CREATION OF A NEW SPACE. THEIR COLLECTIVE EXPLORATION LEADS THEM TO THEIR FAMILY HISTORIES, SHARING STORIES OF JENNIFER’S MOTHER GERTRUDE SOONJA LEE KOH’S EXPERIENCES OF THE KOREAN WAR AND IMMIGRATION TO THE U.S., AS WELL AS DAVÓNE’S GRANDMOTHER ALMA LEE GIBBS TINES’S MEMORIES OF ANTI-BLACK DISCRIMINATION AND VIOLENCE. THE PIECE ASKS WHAT IT WOULD TAKE FOR ALL THIS GRIEF, FRUSTRATION, AND ANGER TO FINALLY BE HEARD.

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