Sat June 19, 2021
Blackiful, a group exhibition featuring artwork of Black artists
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June 19 - August 19, 2021
Blackiful responds to an ongoing need for Black sanctuary space.
What began as a three-week roundtable series centering around the experiences of six Black artists at CE in August 2020 quickly expanded into a group exhibition, one which invited all CE artists who self-identify as Black to co-create Black aesthetic space. Blackiful as an ongoing project considers how individual and collective self-determination [for us] are inextricably linked, whether the space and time we share is physical or virtual. Blackiful the exhibition is a temporary monument to this. It is our speculative praxis, one which is Black on all sides. Blackiful is how we care for one another; it is how we theorize in real-time what it means to share space while we embody serious play.
In August of 2020, six CE artists met with CE teaching artist Danielle Wright to start a dialogue about the Black experience. Participants agreed to make the group exclusive to self-identifying Black artists. In witnessing the artists enthusiastically engage, Wright soon realized that Zoom was the space where Black artists could freely engage in these kinds of conversations. Wright and the artists continued to meet beyond the initially planned three weeks, eventually developing the idea to co-curate a group exhibition of works by Black artists. Blackiful continues the vital conversations started by the group by exploring the visual character of the work of Black artists at CE.
Visit creativityexplored.org to get updated on associated programming that will be announced soon!
Blackiful featured artists: Alissa Bledsoe*, Gerald Wiggins*, Joseph Omoloyaole*, J.D. Green*, Vincent Jackson*, Charles Stanberry, Laron Bickerstaff, Eric Boysaw, Samedi Djeimguero, Christina Marie Fong, Daniel Green, Isaac Haney-Owens, Nita Hicks, Valerie Jenkins, Lakeshia King, Ade Lewis, Tonya Lewis, Taneya Lovelace, Samantha Matthews, Ursula Matthews, Marcus McClure, Musette Perkins, Lance Rivers
*Blackiful core group artists
Free
Presented by Creativity Explored.
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Blackiful responds to an ongoing need for Black sanctuary space.
What began as a three-week roundtable series centering around the experiences of six Black artists at CE in August 2020 quickly expanded into a group exhibition, one which invited all CE artists who self-identify as Black to co-create Black aesthetic space. Blackiful as an ongoing project considers how individual and collective self-determination [for us] are inextricably linked, whether the space and time we share is physical or virtual. Blackiful the exhibition is a temporary monument to this. It is our speculative praxis, one which is Black on all sides. Blackiful is how we care for one another; it is how we theorize in real-time what it means to share space while we embody serious play.
In August of 2020, six CE artists met with CE teaching artist Danielle Wright to start a dialogue about the Black experience. Participants agreed to make the group exclusive to self-identifying Black artists. In witnessing the artists enthusiastically engage, Wright soon realized that Zoom was the space where Black artists could freely engage in these kinds of conversations. Wright and the artists continued to meet beyond the initially planned three weeks, eventually developing the idea to co-curate a group exhibition of works by Black artists. Blackiful continues the vital conversations started by the group by exploring the visual character of the work of Black artists at CE.
Visit creativityexplored.org to get updated on associated programming that will be announced soon!
Blackiful featured artists: Alissa Bledsoe*, Gerald Wiggins*, Joseph Omoloyaole*, J.D. Green*, Vincent Jackson*, Charles Stanberry, Laron Bickerstaff, Eric Boysaw, Samedi Djeimguero, Christina Marie Fong, Daniel Green, Isaac Haney-Owens, Nita Hicks, Valerie Jenkins, Lakeshia King, Ade Lewis, Tonya Lewis, Taneya Lovelace, Samantha Matthews, Ursula Matthews, Marcus McClure, Musette Perkins, Lance Rivers
*Blackiful core group artists
Free
Presented by Creativity Explored.
June 19 - August 19, 2021
Blackiful responds to an ongoing need for Black sanctuary space.
What began as a three-week roundtable series centering around the experiences of six Black artists at CE in August 2020 quickly expanded into a group exhibition, one which invited all CE artists who self-identify as Black to co-create Black aesthetic space. Blackiful as an ongoing project considers how individual and collective self-determination [for us] are inextricably linked, whether the space and time we share is physical or virtual. Blackiful the exhibition is a temporary monument to this. It is our speculative praxis, one which is Black on all sides. Blackiful is how we care for one another; it is how we theorize in real-time what it means to share space while we embody serious play.
In August of 2020, six CE artists met with CE teaching artist Danielle Wright to start a dialogue about the Black experience. Participants agreed to make the group exclusive to self-identifying Black artists. In witnessing the artists enthusiastically engage, Wright soon realized that Zoom was the space where Black artists could freely engage in these kinds of conversations. Wright and the artists continued to meet beyond the initially planned three weeks, eventually developing the idea to co-curate a group exhibition of works by Black artists. Blackiful continues the vital conversations started by the group by exploring the visual character of the work of Black artists at CE.
Visit creativityexplored.org to get updated on associated programming that will be announced soon!
Blackiful featured artists: Alissa Bledsoe*, Gerald Wiggins*, Joseph Omoloyaole*, J.D. Green*, Vincent Jackson*, Charles Stanberry, Laron Bickerstaff, Eric Boysaw, Samedi Djeimguero, Christina Marie Fong, Daniel Green, Isaac Haney-Owens, Nita Hicks, Valerie Jenkins, Lakeshia King, Ade Lewis, Tonya Lewis, Taneya Lovelace, Samantha Matthews, Ursula Matthews, Marcus McClure, Musette Perkins, Lance Rivers
*Blackiful core group artists
Free
Presented by Creativity Explored.
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Blackiful responds to an ongoing need for Black sanctuary space.
What began as a three-week roundtable series centering around the experiences of six Black artists at CE in August 2020 quickly expanded into a group exhibition, one which invited all CE artists who self-identify as Black to co-create Black aesthetic space. Blackiful as an ongoing project considers how individual and collective self-determination [for us] are inextricably linked, whether the space and time we share is physical or virtual. Blackiful the exhibition is a temporary monument to this. It is our speculative praxis, one which is Black on all sides. Blackiful is how we care for one another; it is how we theorize in real-time what it means to share space while we embody serious play.
In August of 2020, six CE artists met with CE teaching artist Danielle Wright to start a dialogue about the Black experience. Participants agreed to make the group exclusive to self-identifying Black artists. In witnessing the artists enthusiastically engage, Wright soon realized that Zoom was the space where Black artists could freely engage in these kinds of conversations. Wright and the artists continued to meet beyond the initially planned three weeks, eventually developing the idea to co-curate a group exhibition of works by Black artists. Blackiful continues the vital conversations started by the group by exploring the visual character of the work of Black artists at CE.
Visit creativityexplored.org to get updated on associated programming that will be announced soon!
Blackiful featured artists: Alissa Bledsoe*, Gerald Wiggins*, Joseph Omoloyaole*, J.D. Green*, Vincent Jackson*, Charles Stanberry, Laron Bickerstaff, Eric Boysaw, Samedi Djeimguero, Christina Marie Fong, Daniel Green, Isaac Haney-Owens, Nita Hicks, Valerie Jenkins, Lakeshia King, Ade Lewis, Tonya Lewis, Taneya Lovelace, Samantha Matthews, Ursula Matthews, Marcus McClure, Musette Perkins, Lance Rivers
*Blackiful core group artists
Free
Presented by Creativity Explored.
show less
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