Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 5:00AM This fun music history lesson is a great way to vibe into 2024. The song is legendary and the education behind how it all came together is the kind of feel good energy we carrying all through out 2024.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at 5:00AM Artist Janet E. Dandridge is fundraising for the permanent memorial park for the Black women that were slain by the South Central Los Angeles serial killer. She has been doing this incredibly powerful and important body of work for a decade, along with the Margaret Prescod the founder of Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders.
Since the early 1980s, at least 200 Black women and girls were victims of serial murders of mysteriously disappeared in South Los Angeles. Many were victims of the multiple serial killers (including the notorious "Grim Sleeper") who preyed on vulnerable and impoverished Black women, including sex workers, homeless women, and those with addiciton issues. Most media outlets paid little or no attention to these murders due to the marginalized and devalued lives of the victims. Most city and county officials made little attempt to raise the alarm even as women continued to die.
The South LA community has been traumatized by the violent loss of so many precious lives over such a protracted period. This loss and trauma must be acknowledged. We refuse to accept the silence and indifference that often follows these murders. We say the names of these Black women and girls who are victims of serial murderers in South LA, and etch them in stone. Each victim is a mother's child, a father's daughter, a sibling's sister, a friend.
Black Women's Lives Count!
The victims deserve a permanent memorial that reclaims their dignity, shows community care, and provides their family members and the community a dignified space for reflection and healing. The victims are gone but they will never be forgotten.
For more information and to donate to the memorial fund please visit https://rosesouthla.org
ROSE - Reclaiming Our Sisters Everywhere
Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 5:00AM Let the spirit move you and let the spirit move through you
My dear friend Alberry is a master painter and craftsman. We first met in Leimert Park where he was doing some woodwork for my neighbor Obi at his African Art Imports shop. I could tell right away how talented Alberry was and I hired him to be our fabricator at the gallery. He constructed pretty much anything we needed to make an exhibition happen, from walls to pedestals to framing structures and building out exhibition design ideas. He can build anything with his hands. And he is also an incredible musician.
Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 5:00AM Upward and Outward
Bend and Stretch
Move and Expand
Photographs by Michelle Joan Papillion
Sculpture by artist Emma Stern
For previous summer playlist listen at this link papillionart.com/dailies/tag/papillion-mixtape
Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 5:00AM In 2016, Seattle-based Northwest Tap Connection hip hop instructor Shakiah Danielson created a protest piece that debuted at the 2016 Groovement at Rainier Beach to speak out against police brutality. Northwest Tap Connection is a race a social justice studio located in the heart of south Seattle and has been committed for years to bridging the gap for children of color under the direction of Miss Melba Ayco.
Seattle Times Articles: https://www.seattletimes.com/entertai...
Keep Northwest Tap Open: https://www.gofundme.com/f/northwest-...
Song: Janelle Monae & Wondaland Music - “Hellyoutalmbout”
Dancers: Northwest Tap Connection - @nwtapconnection
Choreography: Shakiah Danielson - @mzshakiahmc
Featured Instructors: Alex Jackson LaTwon Allen Shaina Proctor Ahmen Taplin Lakema Bell
film, edit, & color: Genki Kawashima
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 5:00AM One of my favorite films is the Brazilian "Black Orpheus" Gia Coppola does a film for Vogue by Gucci chronocling the myth.
Friday, February 19, 2016 at 5:00AM Kentuah Davis has been commissioned by Alliance Française Accra to present a performance installation with collaborators Kuyum Arts Investigation Project.
Monday, January 25, 2016 at 5:00AM The Guerilla Girls school Colbert on the history of power in art and the art world
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 5:00AM What a weekend, a successful opening for Derek Fordjour & Yashua Klos and an incredible time on the Kingdom Float designed and built by Lauren Halsey for the Martin Luther King Day Parade.
Friday, January 1, 2016 at 5:00AM Zanetta Smith organized the TEDxCrenshaw event and I was very excited to be apart of it.
My talk was the "Art of Doing Good"
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 5:00AM We had a magical night with EJ HILL last Saturday. The open conversation between Hill and everyone else in the room was engaging to say the least, in the case of this emerging performance artist the best way to describe the night was "he was present"
Recorded live via U-stream the night of the conversation.
Above images courtesy Treyvon X
Monday, June 8, 2015 at 5:00AM Lex Brown performing American Flag at Redcat
Monday, March 16, 2015 at 5:00AM 
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at 5:00AM Danielle Dean was one of my favorite studio visits this year. She makes drawings and performance/video art.
Video still from "Are you working?" HD video, 30 min. 2010
Excerpt from Are you working? Various colored forms are caressed, rubbed and pushed together by hands with red nail polish.
danielledean.info
Monday, October 14, 2013 at 5:00AM I've been enjoying some amazing weather in NY for the past 2 weeks so there are lots of blog updates I need to catch up on. The most exciting thing I encountered on my trip was the HeartsRevolution duo and there dynamic swaroski crystal ice cream truck! The same crystals that Michael Jackson used for his stage and performance costumes (think the epic MJ glove!) Lo the wicked street artist and brainchild behind the truck greets you inside as she pushes the eclectic mix of things they have for sale.
