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Posted on May 17, 2019May 17, 2019

A Look Back @ Kara Walker’s A Subtelty or The Marvelous Sugar Baby

I went to see this exhibit back in summer 2014, and it changed my life. It's the single most powerful piece of art I've seen in-person. I was inspired to re-post my original blog after a colleague came into my office today and commented on the poster of Her. I've had that poster since 2014 …

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Posted on November 6, 2017October 12, 2018

Black Women in the Arts

Yesterday I went to the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)in DC to see the Magnetic Fields exhibit which per the exhibit site "...celebrates the contribution of black women artists and argues for their enduring relevance to American abstraction." One of my homegirls put this on our calendar almost a month ago. Truth be told the …

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Dinner time w/ my nephew. Photo cred: youngest niece I 💜being an #auntie 🥰 @asajefferson83 & @shannab06
“In Our Own Words,” a reading series hosted by @zorasden, is happening this Thursday at 6pm @eubieblakecenter . Last one of the summer so don’t miss it! #baltimore #reading series #zorasden
On Father’s Day I re-read 5 letters from my grandmother, Thelma to my grandfather, Harlee who was stationed on an Army base across the country in San Francisco. I imagine she wrote him from her kitchen table in Havre de Grace, MD. My mother gave me these letters some years ago & I treat them like an inheritance. In their pages I see my grandmother as a young newlywed, and am introduced to my infant father, Arnaz. They are all with the ancestors now, have been for years. But these letters feel alive...
@mariacgoodson was inspired by my nails & told me to hold my vino just so. clearly I enjoyed this👀😆 thx for the sexsay pic grrrlll
@mjunot Don’t leave???? I love this picture of us, the gorgeous ladies of @writersandwords (omg it’s still GLOW)! what do u think @mariacgoodson , too much? 💜
Powerful piece abt race, policing, & gentrification in San Francisco by poet @_tongogara_ Truth, I’ma have to read this like 3 mo’ times 😉Here’s one of many standout lines: “Hordes of new citizens partied to the violently goofy ideal that the state and “tech” corporations were the keepers of human evolution.” Link to essay in his bio.
@writersandwords tomorrow night y’all! Come through @charmingtons & support some fantastic writers as they read their work. #writersandwords #baltimore #readingseries
The talented @deyanemoses talks process for her exhibit “Blackives” For more go to @miba.online. As someone relatively new to the MICA community the black student history is intriguing.

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