Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world. –… Read More
Melanin is our friend and now it’s for sale.
Genre: Grantee Story
The How and Why of It
All This Stuff I’m Carrying vs Things Waiting for a Weightless Me. Never content with simply providing what’s requested; always on a mission to break it down to something that… Read More
Water is Life
Sometimes, as we develop our craft, we find we have a theme in our art. Sometimes we are inspired specifically by a certain event, a place, or even a person. … Read More
Working with the Georgia Dance Theatre
This past weekend I had the great experience of working with the dancers of the Georgia Dance Theatre. I set a new work on five very talented dancers for the… Read More
STEPPING STONES: PATHS TO WRITING & THE BEST ADVICE I EVER RECEIVED (A MICRO MEMOIR IN 2 PARTS)
In a continuation of last week’s blog, I’d like to keep talking about stepping stones and butterfly effects. All those little things, seemingly small at the time, that build and… Read More
NPR is my muse.
I was listening to NPR in my car the other day. Does anyone listen to NPR when they aren’t driving? They did a story on a man who owns a… Read More
Aural Dissonance vs Visual Dissonance
Have you ever been around a little kid who is learning to play a musical instrument? Have you ever been around someone learning to play violin…or better yet, bagpipes? It… Read More
A Pioneer in the making! Jason Hackenwerth
Post Mortem: Two Existentialisms
When I am staring at a blank canvas, the first thing that I do is to start defining the inherent grid and systems. Here are three tricks that I use… Read More
Post Motrem: No Man’s Woman
It was this piece in which I began working with personal references. The first thing that I painted, now barely visible after several layers of subsequent paint collages,* was an… Read More
