Posted June 17, 2020 Dr. Indira Etwaroo and Colvin Grannum talk about the importance of the mural at the hub of Black Brooklyn, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and The Billie Holiday Theater. Posted by Art Movez Podcast on Wednesday, June 17, 2020
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BY KATIE HAYES CONTRIBUTING WRITER JUNE 15, 2020 05:45 AM As children play on the sidewalk, multiple artists are priming plywood and painting scenes while a small crowd watches. Earlier, a 4-year-old girl contributed a salmon that dances across the bright wall filled with names and portraits. Her work helps tell the story of oppression. The…
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by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Mar 26, 2020 • 8:58 pm GRAND SCALE narrative installations, figurative scenes produced as cut-paper silhouettes, brought early acclaim to Kara Walker more than 25 years ago. More recently, she has ventured into monumental public art. Her first foray was in 2014, when she created “A Subtlety,” her massive sphinx-like mammy figure, a sculpture covered entirely with sugar installed…
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7:49 PM PDT 6/14/2020 by Kimberly Nordyke Gianna Floyd, who is 6, thanked the actress-singer on Instagram. George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter is now a Disney shareholder, thanks to Barbra Streisand. Gianna Floyd on Saturday shared a post on Instagram in which she thanked the actress-singer for her gift. The accompanying photos showed her along with a letter…
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Bravo Indira, Dawud, Cey Councilmember Robert E. Cornegy Jr. and all of those behind the inspiration to create Black Lives Matter Way. If one ever wondered is there an intersection between art and social justice look at how this will inspire, remind, and fuel the movement to value and our participation, in the founding and…
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by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Jun 9, 2020 • 5:58 pm A MUST READ FOR THE MOMENT, historian Ibram X. Kendi published “How to Be an Antiracist” last summer. Jeffrey C. Stewart, a museum veteran and biographer of Alain Locke, reviewed the volume for The New York Times. Stewart called it a “stunner of a book” and a “manual of racial ethics.” “How to Be an Antiracist” has…
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On Fulton Street to witness the beginning of the Art Installation. The street opens on Monday. Dr. Indira Etwaroo and the artist behind the inspiration Dawud West….Black Lives Matter
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First of all thank you all for supporting the Art Movez_ Virtual Website Launch. Unfortunately we were unable to finish the program because Verizon went DOWN. We tried a new link and it went down again. So, we’re going to do anArt Movez_ 2.0 Virtual Launch so you can see the other 60 minutes, so…
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I’ve often wondered about the intersection of art and social justice. Too often when decisions are made about what’s important art is low on the list of priorities. This picture says more than words, it’s emotive, and reminds me of our ancestral roots in this country. Black mothers still being separated from their children. This…
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by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Aug 9, 2019 • 6:58 am FOR AN EXHIBITION in his hometown of Baltimore Derrick Adams drew on his personal history, sourcing images from a family photo album. Inspired by the decades-old images, he made a series of paintings documenting scenes from his childhood—a pair of bridesmaids in matching turquoise blue dresses, children playing in the yard…
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