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Art of This World: Radcliffe Bailey
Artist Radcliffe Baily speaks at the TEDx Atlanta about the mystery of art, the influence of family, music, spirituality and history in his creative process, and his use of art to bring kinfolk...
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Art of This World: Afrofuturism at MoCADA
Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the Afrofuturism exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts from Brooklyn Independent TV. Filed under: Afrofuturism/Afrosurrealism, Art, Art of...
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Art of This World: “Wangechi Mutu -The Catatonic Bliss of Violent Incidences”
Here is part of an in interesting interview with Wangechi Mutu from Another Africa: …There is always a sort of underlying violence embedded in each of the pieces she creates. Affirmative fears,...
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Art of This World: Tamara Natalie Madden
Tamara Natalie Madden is a Jamaican artist who has overcome obstacles to use her art to express her “vivid and buoyant” vision of life. For a photoshoot she did for Pangaea’s Garden, she wrote in a...
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Art of This World: Jaszmine Asha Hawkins
Jaszmine Asha Hawkins is a New Jersey-based visual artist whose artwork is vibrantly and beautifully unusual with her “big-lipped” and “alien-looking” figures. Currently she is looking for galleries...
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Art of This World: Adelaide Damoah
Adelaide Damoah began her artwork as a way to help her with her battle with endometriosis. Basing her work on surrealist principles and artists like Frida Kahlo, Damoah expresses her feelings about...
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Art of This World: Ramel Jasir
Gestation exhibition Ramel Jasir began his painting career in 2006 after a friend advised him to start as a way to deal with some stressful events in his life. As a self-taught artist, he describes...
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Art of This World: Nathan Jalani Taylor
After creating a list of items that I found on Zazzle, one of the shops that stood out to me was Nathan Jalani Taylor’s, so here is my spotlight on him. I was immediately drawn to his art; it had a...
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Art of This World: Risha Rox
This is from the Bombay Sapphire’s Artisan and Imagination Series. Artist Danny Simmons (brother of Russell and Joseph “Run” Simmons) speaks with several different artists about the work they do and...
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Art of This World: Rho-Cass
Rho-cass from DeviantART. “Pseudospring” “The idea behind it — biomechanics. Maybe she’s some cybernetic organism that draws energy from ‘energy springs’ that crop up in the form of these weird ‘cyber...
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Art of This World: Tam Joseph
Shout out to all my Dominicans out there (not The Dominican Republic, but Dominica)! Here is an artist from my father’s island, British-Dominican Tam Joseph, who is best known for his 1982 “Spirit of...
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Art of This World: S. Ross Browne
Via Phenderson Djèlí Clark (a fellow Caribbean afrofuturist) Speculative Art- S. Ross Browne: Self Evident Truths Posted on April 23, 2013 “Our personal history is often rooted in the identity of our...
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Art of This World: Joshua Mays + Caitlin Cherry
Denver born painter, muralist and illustrator, Joshua Mays is a self-taught, visionary artist who has featured his murals all over the world. He draws inspiration from “science-fiction, dreamscape...
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Art of This World: Sara Golish’s MoonDust
Ontario artist Sara Golish recently released her series, MoonDust, an ode to Afrofuturism and natural hair. She recounts her process for the project: “…However, these pieces are heavily based in...
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Art of This World: City Trips
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the chance to see some out of this world art, so I’m sharing some of it. These are from the Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties exhibition that I saw at...
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Art of This World: Margaret Rose Vendryes
I was walking around Jamaica Avenue in Queens, New York the other night and came across an outdoor art installation featuring work from Margaret Rose Vendryes‘ African Diva Project and work from...
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Art of This World: Myrna Loy (Lady Loy)
Art submission from Myrna Loy: Loy is a poet, visual artist, author, DJ, Blackbright News Magazine founder and podcaster of Jamaican British descent. She has published two books of poetry and a...
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Art of This World: Jill McIntyre
Hey everyone! I am still fundraising for Atlantic Impact’s Abroad for a Cause Challenge in which the organization is inviting two bloggers to travel with them to Barbados this summer. Atlantic Impact...
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Art of This World: Sol’Sax + Maksaens Denis + Kara Walker
Become a patron and support my blog and other writing endeavors on Patreon! ____________ Despite having a cold last week and recovering from it, which is why I have not posted in a week, I managed to...
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Art of This World: Renee Cox’s ‘Sacred Geometry’
Jamaican-American visual artist Renee Cox recently released her latest collection of work, Sacred Geometry: where she turns bodies of various people into mandala-inspired geometric fractal patterns....
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