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🎨🎙#ArtIsAWeapon Reposted from @calabargallery JOIN US ON FACEBOOK LIVE AT FACEBOOK.COM/CALABARGALLERY FOR: The fifth episode of 2022: ART TALKS: BLACK ARTISTS IN THE METAVERSE Moderated by Atim Annette Oton And presented by Calabar Gallery Featuring: LEON MORTON, DANA POWELL-SMITH AND AKWAA MARIIN Monday March 14, 1:00pm to 2:30pm 1pm EST, 6pm GMT, 6pm UTC, 8pm CAT on FACEBOOK LIVE Watch at Facebook.com/calabargallery Contact us at [email protected] Leon Morton is a technology professional, entrepreneur, Black history and culture enthusiast, and passionate multimedia artist. He has designed graphics, developed websites, created online games, and programmed mobile apps. Leon operates "LeesNiftys" on OpenSea for sharing and distributing his NFT digital art. Find his work at OpenSea: https://opensea.io/leesniftys Instagram: @leonmorton1 Dana Powell-Smith was born in the Bronx NY. She is a self taught, Published, Award Winning, Abstract, Digital and Mixed Media Artist. Dana takes traditional art and turns them in to NFTs.  As a wife, mother, and grandmother, Dana understands the power of art in generational healing and in attaining freedom. She is the Granddaughter of Harlem Renaissance artist Georgette Seabrooke Powell, Dana is a resident of Indianapolis Indiana. She sells her NFTs at voice.com/danapose and can be found on Instagram at @GeorgettesGranddaughter Akwaa Mariin is a Ghanaian artist who believes. expression is key to freedom. She is an NFT artist and her art is all about African noir depictions. She celebrates sensational black women’s beauty, color and vibrant spirit that is a prodigious influence over modern media culture. She says despite everything that African women have had to endure, their strength is shown through the power of love, passion and an unbreakable determination to persevere, which shines like an illuminating beacon for all to embrace. Her work can be found at OpenSea at https://opensea.io/collection/whatif- and she is on Instagram at @akwaamariin #calabargallery #ArtTalks #arttalksdialogues #blackcollectors #artbusiness #artcollectors #BlackArt #contemporaryart #blackcurators #nfts https://www.instagram.com/p/CbFpz2LgxHx/?utm_medium=tumblr

🎨🎙#ArtIsAWeapon #ArtTalks Reposted from @calabargallery TODAY AT 1PM EST, JOIN US ON FACEBOOK LIVE AT FACEBOOK.COM/CALABARGALLERY FOR: The fourth episode: ART TALKS: BLACK ART IN THESE TIMES Moderated by Atim Annette Oton @atimannetteoton And presented by Calabar Gallery Featuring: AMY ANDRIEUX @missaimstar, RIKKI WEMEGA-KWAWU AND ROB PERREE Monday March 7, 1:00pm to 2:30pm 1pm EST, 6pm GMT, 6pm UTC, 8pm CAT on FACEBOOK LIVE Watch at Facebook.com/calabargallery Contact us at [email protected] Amy Andrieux leads programming and development at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA) in Brooklyn as the institution’s Executive Director and Chief Curator. She has over 20 years of experience, her greatest strength rests in curating content and programming campaigns intended for global audiences across print, digital, video, mobile, and live events.  Rikki Wemega-Kwawu is a contemporary Ghanaian artist, born in Ghana. His projects address the effects of globalization and the African diaspora on African art. Rikki writes about the politics of cultural dictatorship in the evaluation of modern African art. A devoted painter since 1981, he carries out forays into sculpture, photography and installation art. His work is characterized by a synthesis of the past and the present, incorporating a plethora of ancient African symbols and graphic systems into his large-scale paintings. He is largely self-taught, though an alumnus of Skowhegan School in Maine. Rob Perree the founder and editor of the online magazine Africanah.org.  He curated among others ‘Postcards from Black America’(1998/1999), What about Africa? (2016) and ‘TELL ME YOUR STORY. 100 years of storytelling in African American art’ (2019/2020). He works as an independent writer and curator, with a focus on contemporary African American, African and Caribbean art and media art. He lives and works in Amsterdam and Brooklyn, New York. #calabargallery #nyc #arttalksdialogues #blackcollectors #artbusiness #artcollectors #artcollector #painting #contemporaryart #blackcurators #blackartists #africanart #africanartists #artgallery #caribbeanartists #BlackGirlArtGeeks https://www.instagram.com/p/CazlqkyO4Cc/?utm_medium=tumblr