Celebrating Our Differences
This young man’s work. This young man from Ghana, Evans Nyarko Badohu, tagged me his every dream until I asked could I share them with you. Gate open, Garden Spices, on Evans Nyarko Badohu. – Victorine Artist Statement I started to create when I was a child…
I feel that the pandemic put us all in various precarious mental states regarding survival. This pandemic has been a thorny arena for me, a ceramic artist dependent on my Community Ceramic Art Studio at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago – my art home since 2012…
Title: experience Medium: acrylic on paper Size: 15*20inch Year: 2022 About the Artist Olanrewaju Adeyemi’s painting and drawing are an amalgamation of abstraction. His work focuses on dichotomies such as emotions versus culture and mood versus experience. He believes art gives us meaning and helps…
The mental states we reside within are a dialogue in our heads about the external world. These stories we tell ourselves are both fiction and nonfiction. However, we are certain of one fact. The world around us is a constantly challenging vortex that we must deal with daily….
Artist: Patricia Coleman-Cobb Title: “Dear Tyrone” – (30×42 mixed media) Artist, Patricia Coleman-Cobb invites you to write words for Dear Tyrone. Let your imagination soar and give this sister some choice words to initiate change either with or without Tyrone. COMMENTS PLEASE. Question: This mellow Lady is…
I keep remembering a time when I was young… hands so tender, it almost hurt to clasp them in prayer… When all I could hold was my stuffed teddy who knew all my fears, joys, and wants. The sound of the Zimbabwean national anthem evoked hope in the…
Brenda Davis (1962 – 2022) Art by Brenda Davis Inspired by visions that “God sends to me,” Brenda Davis filled the walls and ceilings of her double-wide mobile home in rural Alabama with painted depictions of boldly abstracted flowers and birds, multi-colored fronds, primeval jungle royalty, calligraphic-like seals,…
And so it happened. A door shut in my face. Again. In my mind’s ear, the soundtrack of a sad movie plays. It feels as though I might just get glued into the tarmac if I do not lift my feet quick enough. You see, I don’t remember…
“Kescorism?” I saw his work, and I had to ask what in the world this art form defines. Kelvin (Artistk) Ansong replied,”KESCORISM is my identity brand. Proceeding with my name Kelvin…… I always want to distinguish my works with circular shapes and colors… Therefore KESCORISM is my own…
Attunement: Covid Memorial at Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, 2020 Direction, as a concept, has a couple of implications. In one sense, a directional trajectory is often framed in some sort of action verb coupled with destination, heading north, falling backward, climbing up. In another sense, it…