Tag: Black History Month
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Artist a Day Challenge No. 7: Kenturah Davis
“I AM DELIBERATE AND AFRAID OF NOTHING.”~ AUDRE LORDE “I’M A REBEL WITH A CAUSE”~NINA SIMONE The first time I heard “Four Women” by Nina Simone I got chills. To me, there are three important elements to storytelling in any form of artistic expression: 1. It immediately conveys and connects to raw emotion 2. It provides a subtle…
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Artist a Day Challenge No.5: Retna
One day, I will crack the code to Retna’s personalized alphabet that is a skillful fusion of Old English, Hebrew, Asian and Arabic calligraphy. In the meantime, I enjoy his work in abstraction. I love the symmetry and repetition in his murals. This particular one was painted for Jeffrey Deitch when he was at MOCA circa 2013.
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Artist a Day Challenge No.3: Alison Saar
“Spiral Betty” by Alison Saar is such a great piece because I think it cuts to the essence of black women and our relationship with our hair; it is a never-ending journey. For some it is a struggle, for others a mask, and with the renaissance of the natural hair movement, many celebrate it. Our hair journey is…
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Artist a Day Challenge No. 2: Gordon Parks
For Black History Month I will be highlighting African-American artists who inspire creativity and beauty as catalyst of thought, reflection and emotion. The challenge in these posts will be to select a single image that captures the essence of their work! With Gordon Parks it is hard to distill a lifetime of music, photography, and film direction into a single…
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Today’s Google Doodle: February 1, 2015
Today is Langston Hughes’ 113 birthday, and Google has posted a beautiful doodle in tribute to the writer. I am smitten with the animation by doodler Katy Wu and how the illustration captures the vibrancy of the jazz age and the beautiful message in his poetry. Hughes deftly recognized our stark, painful realities while artistically transcending the pain…
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Power Up! My Recap of the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit
When traveling for work I stock up on Business periodicals like the Economist or Harvard Business Review and use flight time to tackle a career challenge. During my flight from Los Angeles to West Palm Beach two weeks ago I was reading Black Enterprise Magazine and as I flipped through pages of Black Women of…
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Black History Month Art #8: Fred Eversley
I love transparent resin sculptures, and I particularly love Fred Eversley’s reflective optical lens work. They are so striking.
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Black History Month Art #5: MoAD
I took this picture in 2010 during a visit to the Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco. This is a piece created from a photo by Chester Jiggins Jr. The piece spans 2 stories and is fashioned from over 2,000 individual photos from people all over the world. It’s stunning in person, and the…
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Black History Month Art #2: Henry O. Tanner, 1893
The Banjo Lesson. This was another piece that I saw at the Rhapsodies in Black show at the Palace of Legion of Honor way back in 1998, but this work means so much to me because my parents have a copy of this in their home; I adore it. Technically it is such a…
Colony Little, Culture Shock Art 