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May 11, 2012 • 54 notes • acehotel

acehotel:

Here be collage works by Adee Roberson, a multimedia artist, vocalist, drummer and writer in residence for the month of April at Ace Hotel New York by way of Portland, New Orleans, Florida and every which way elsewhere. She holds it down every Monday in the lobby with her partner in crime Anna Luisa Petrisko under their shared moniker Mother Popcorn. They are both wizards of the highest order.

Here be collage works by Adee Roberson, a multimedia artist, vocalist, drummer and writer in residence for the month of April at Ace Hotel New York by way of Portland, New Orleans, Florida and every which way elsewhere. She holds it down every Monday in the lobby with her partner in crime Anna Luisa Petrisko under their shared moniker Mother Popcorn. They are both wizards of the highest order.

May 11, 2012 • 303 notes • darksilenceinsuburbia

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May 11, 2012 • 85 notes • complex-brown

teamvocalo:

Reclaimed Soul is up next.

vocaloreclaimedsoul:

We play with the still quiet space between past and future on this week’s “Reclaimed Soul”.

Pictured above, work from Collage and Letterpress Artist Krista Franklin who will be my in-studio guest this Thursday. She will talk about her latest work, and about how both ephemera from the past (including old Ebony Magazines) and Afro-Futurist ideas are muses for her work.

We’ll also unpack the notions of Post-Blackness and Afro-Futurism. We overhear a conversation from poet and Cultural Critic Avery R. Young about how and why these labels exist for (and sometimes box in) artists of color. He’ll also talk about why some artists of Color reject these labels.

Afro-Futurist Jazz Saxophonist David Boykin will weigh in on the subject as well. A student of Jazz History, and someone who’s spent a great deal of time researching Sun-Ra (a jazz pioneer who was based in Chicago for many years), David has quite a bit to say about how Sun Ra’s Afro-Futurist and Nationalist ideas are (mis)represented in the media.

New York Magazine recently published a list of tips to be a successful artists. Number Four was to be:

Young, Post-Black, and from Chicago.

Hmmmmmmm.

shepherdsnotsheep:

complex-brown:

Krista Franklin

“Do Androids Dream of How People are Sheep”, Mixed media on watercolor paper, 2011

Yes! More Krista Franklin art. I did my final project in my African Art class on Krista (it helps when the artist you’re writing about is a friend/mentor of yours) I am so glad Krista is starting to get the national attention she deserves. I wouldn’t be who I am without Krista’s encouragement throughout high school. She taught me that there was nothing wrong with being a “quirky black girl” with feminist interests, who liked rock, old school hip-hop and enjoyed writing poetry. I think Erika, Deja and many other young women who are graduates of the Saturday Writing Program at Young Chicago Authors can say the same thing.