BLACK CANVAS | REVERBERATIONS OF FREEDOM, curated by NSOROMMA, is a series of pan-African cultural production processes threaded together by themes of liberation and creativity. Hawa Y Mire and I conceptualized NSOROMMA with a vision of incubating, supporting and amplifying insurgent Black art and artists.

Its goal is to resituate the notorious canvas within the complex transitions from bondage to freedom that began in the 1870s and lingered through the 1910s. It argues that Redenção is a painting just as much about a black nineteenth-century emancipationist past as it is about a whitened twentieth-century post-emancipation future.

2024年1月11日 · As a concept, freedom is an abstract idea, notion, or thought where one’s individual and collective existence and humanity is respected. Enslavement, Jim Crow, redlining, and other race-based forms of oppression deny human respect and dignity.

2022年3月14日 · We asked three artists to help us visualize what Black joy could look like after we achieve systemic equality — the joy that can exist in an inclusive and equitable world. Learn more about each artist and their work below. Black joy is freedom. Black joy is radical. The Black joy to come from systemic equality would change the world.

The colors flow across the canvas, creating a harmonious yet striking background where the figures of Black children both stand out and blend into the message, “Keep Your Spirits Free.” This interplay of color and text underscores the resilience and humanity of Black culture.

1 天前 · Wedged in the corner of the Arts & Crafts Cooperative, Inc., or ACCI’s, overflowing floorspace is a small white-walled cube dedicated entirely to its new exhibition: “The Freedom of Art.”

Black freedom movements of the late 19th and 20th centuries challenged systemic inequality, fostered solidarity, and forged international networks of resistance. While these movements held varied ideologies and focused on different issues, they all shared goals of justice and equity for Africans and people of African descent.

2021年5月25日 · It is a church where Black freedom has been envisioned and practiced throughout the entirety of its existence, from the 19th-century congregant Denmark Vesey—who bought his own freedom and...

2025年1月29日 · Early on in “Black in Blues” you write: “Black was a hard-earned love. But through it all, the blue blues — the certainly of the brilliant sky, deep water, and melancholy — have never left us … the blue in Black is nothing less than truth before trope. ... In this combination of the power of the freedom, you get this beautiful ...

5 天之前 · When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting Through Aug. 10 at the Bozar Center for Fine Arts, in Brussels; bozar.be. Share full article. The Vast World of Art and Design.