harlem is...Dance @ MIST HARLEM

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I completed an homage portrait of the late, distinguished independent performing artist Loretta Abbott for harlem is...DANCE a Community Works' exhibition in partnership with MIST Harlem, Harlem Arts Festival and the Harlem Arts Alliance.

Harlem is... A 6-part series presented by Community Works, celebrating the living history of Harlem and honoring remarkable community members, ages 50- 100, from all sectors of society. Part one honors 30 Harlemites; other components highlight the people, places, and history of Harlem Theatre, Gospel Tradition, Art, Music, and Dance.

harlem is...DANCE is co-curated by Barbara Horowitz and Elan Cadiz-Ferguson

On View: August 1- November 17, 2016 at MIST Harlem

Opening Reception: August 29, 2016, 6PM, Free + open to public with RSVP. 

RSVP the special artist reception to tour the exhibit, dialogue with the artists, enjoy a tribute by Abdel Salaam to dance icons Ruth Williams, Marie Brooks and Dele Husbands, dance performances, light refreshments and more. 

UBUNTU @ LA MAISON D'ART

Image: © Lisa DuBois

ON VIEW! 6/2 - 7/8 @ La Maison d'Art | curated for Harlem Art Festival.

A FOOTHOLD ON THE ROCKS OPENING RECEPTION @ EQUITY GALLERY

Photos from A Foothold on the Rocks at Equity Gallery | Credit: Julia Discenza

Bottom images: This is Harlem Now, 2016 (homage to Jacob Lawrence's This is Harlem). 

I'm curating this show! Two of my paintings will also be featured.

Excited and nervous beyond words. Check the press release. 

Sibyl #3 was selected for another group show! - Faith [In]Action? 

United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities' Center for Arts, Faith and Culture partnered with Intermedia Arts and Obsidian Arts to present two complementary, juried exhibitions:

Opening Reception
Thursday, January 28│6 – 8 PM
Program at 7 PM
United's Bigelow Chapel
3000 5th Street NW, New Brighton

Closing Reception
Sunday, April 17│ 5 – 7 PM
Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis
More infornation, hours, fees

Faith [In]Action?
At United
Which is it? Faith in Action or Faith InAction? How does the faith community establish its convictions and response to the Black Lives Matter movement?

Hands Up Don’t Shoot – HER
At Intermedia Arts
Where are the protests and riots when the lives of black women are ended at the hands of police?

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Photos from (Re)Vision at Jan Brandt Gallery | Credit: Ken Chiu

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Sibyl #3 is en route to Jan Brandt Gallery in Bloomington, IL for a group show - (Re)Vision: What is Post-Black Art.

(Re)Vision is an art exhibition about the limitless possibilities of asserting Black identity in non-representational and figurative work. 

Artists: Michael Adams, Luke Ahern, Tania L. Balan-Gaubert, Nakeya Brown, Alexa Cary, Percy Echols II, Lamiah Gholar, Allison Gragg, Venise Keys, Ðarian Łongmire, Marcus Latrell Martin, Marvin Touré.

Curated by Venise Keys

Within 

and

Without:

The Refutation of "Good" Hair

BY NAKEYA BROWN

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In 2012, I sat for artist Nakeya Brown's The Refutation of 'Good' Hair. 

Pelican Bomb's new digital exclusive on her series presents interviews from each model.

Read what I shared and don't sleep on the never before seen unsolicited submissions either, I'm in love...

"...we would sit there, still,

 watching our mothers mix dreams

with a spatula..."

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"In Within and Without: The Refutation of "Good" Hair, a digital presentation created exclusively with Pelican Bomb, we excavate the dialogue between the three positions within the project—that of artist, subject, and audience. We alternate Brown’s original images from 2012, recent interviews with her models, and unsolicited emails and poems she received throughout to visualize a type of disruption and co-creation previously unmapped in relation to her project, finding new points of convergence, deviation, and transcendence."

Follow Nakeya's work here and on her Tumblr.

NAKEYA BROWN’S NEW PHOTO EXHIBITION DOCUMENTS BLACK WOMANHOOD

BY STEPHANYE WATTS

Last month, I attended the artist talk for Nakeya Brown's exhibition "In Private Moments," sponsored by Top Rank Magazine at FiveMyles gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. She was in conversation with the dynamic Kimberly Drew of Black Contemporary Art.

I sat for Nakeya's photo project, The Refutation of 'Good' Hair in 2012 and its growing success has been amazing to watch! 

Back in November 2014, I also interviewed Nakeya on TROGH and the progress of her more recent series. Read it here.

Stay tuned for more of Nakeya's growing body of work at nakeyab.com and follow her on tumblr.