A SHORT FILM: For any black woman who has doubted her value or beauty, model and writer Nikia Phoenix has an affirmation just for you.

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A SHORT FILM: For any black woman who has doubted her value or beauty, model and writer Nikia Phoenix has an affirmation just for you.

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#BlackWomanVisualArtist Frances Nielah Bradley’s “Womanhood or Woman's-Hurt?: A Documentary”
A story of healing and survival through the arts after experiencing sexual assault.
For more information: http://womanhoodorwomanshurt.com
sea things - creatures who swallow salt. little sketchbook things
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, bone by bone.
Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens:Womanist Prose (New York: Harcourt, Inc, 1983), 92
Artist: Melinda Byers
Born and raised in California, USA, Melinda Byers is one of America’s foremost and popular artists of nostalgic and ethnic art.She discovered her love for art at a young age, and vividly remembers sponge painting as a four year old, at primary school. Whilst at a grammar school, Melinda Byers was awarded many art certificates and one art teacher, in particular, introduced her to watercolours, which is the medium she has favoured throughout her career. After school she worked at a dental practice, whilst painting in her spare time. However, she soon took up painting full-time and began participating in many exhibitions at leading galleries in America.Melinda Byers is a self-taught artist who has not undergone any formal training. Before starting a painting, she spends on average 150-200 hours preparing the scene she has chosen to paint. This includes activities such as finding models and making their clothes, and taking photographs.She has won many awards over the years, including several first place prizes and three ‘Best Of Show’ awards. She has also donated many of her original paintings to charities to raise money for hospitals around her home town.

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Images from the pictorial Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present
As a student in the 1970s, Deborah Willis came to the realization that images of black beauty, female and male, simply did not exist in the larger culture. Determined to redress this imbalance, Willis examined everything from vintage ladies’ journals to black newspapers, and started what would become a lifelong quest. With more than two hundred arresting images, many previously unpublished, Posing Beauty recovers a world many never knew existed. Historical subjects such as Billie Holiday and Josephine Baker illuminate the past; Angela Davis and Muhammad Ali take us to the civil rights era; Denzel Washington, Lil’ Kim, and Michelle Obama celebrate the present. Featuring the works of more than one hundred photographers, including Carl van Vechten, Eve Arnold, Lee Friedlander, and Carrie Mae Weems, Willis’s book not only celebrates the lives of the famous but also captures the barber shop, the bodybuilding contest, and prom night. Posing Beauty challenges our most fundamental assumptions about what it means to be “beautiful.”
242 duotone photographs; 40 pages of five-color photographs.
At the STWTS opening, I asked people to write their own captions to street harassers.
From Stop Telling Women to Smile Opening at Fresthetic on April 12, 2013. Brooklyn, NY.
Photos by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
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We Don’t Owe You Shit.
Tamara Natalie Madden
Jamaican born painter & mixed media artist
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Fresthetic Artist Talk: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
I talked with Fresthetic about my work, and the upcoming show Stop Telling Women to Smile.
Fresthetic does a lot of cool stuff, and I encourage people to also watch some of their other artist talks. (Especially Joshua Mays’. He’s so damn good.)
Stop Telling Women to Smile opens this Friday at Fresthetic from 7-10pm.
opens today!
Jamaican born painter and mixed-media artist Tamara Natalie Madden.
Brianna McCarthy, ‘Keeping Company with Jaguars’
Brianna McCarthy is a mixed media artist who lives and works in Trinidad and Tobago. Her work takes on the intricacies and dynamics of representing Afro-Caribbean women who are portrayed as being strong, long-suffering, exoticised and picturesque beings against a backdrop of poverty, hardship, abuse and/or scorn.
Domestic Jumbie West Indica.
Brianna McCarthy 2013.
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The #AfriFemArtisticGenius of Avis Hoggard...
Dindga (pronounced Ding-ga) McCannon
I was born and raised in Harlem where I was inspired to become an artist at age 10.(My early adventures as a young Harlem artist are chronicled in two books I authored and illustrated-"Peaches" (Lothrop, Lee and Shepard) and "Wilhemina Jones, Future Star" (Dell Books)published in1975 and 1978. They are out of print but available at Amazon.com. I am a painter, author, printmaker, illustrator, murualist , teacher and currently a fiber artist. I am/was self taught and I work intuitively fusing my fine art "training" with the traditional womens needlework taught to me by my mother, Lottie K. Porter and grandmother Hattie Kilgo-sewing ,beading, embroidery and quilting into what is now known as ArtQuilts.I've also made wearable art since the 60's. I've exhibited my work worldwide including Harlem State Office Building Gallery, the Shromberg, Countee Cullen Library, Genesis 11 Museum in Harlem, American Craft Museum and the Smithsonian.
Dindga McCannon's website: http://art-alive.com/dindga/
Bio credits: Dindga McCannon
Video credits: The Dwyer Art Center, Harlem NY [http://www.dwyercc.org/index.html]