Sistah Friends Project

Sistah Friends is an international arts initiative that recognizes and celebrates that the African diaspora spans the world. Using contemporary art practices, we form bonds and communities with our sistahs at home and abroad. Through self-portraiture and oral narrative projects, Sistah Friends creates a multimedia platform for honest and autonomous productions and reproductions of black women. The aim is to collaboratively reimagine, repoliticize, and recontextualize the black female form in order to salvage a complex history and to strengthen connectivity.

portraits: 30 Americans & the Bearden Project

I had the pleasure of seeing 30 Americans at the Corcoran Gallery of Art over MLK weekend in DC. It’s a beautiful show, and I got the closest I’ve ever been to a Basquiat in real life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Self-portrait), 1982-1983

Also, the Studio Museum in Harlem has an impressive exhibition of contemporary artists’ reflections on Romare Bearden, a tribute to the influential master on the occasion of the centennial of his birth. I’m loving these new ink&collage pieces by Lorna Simpson.

Lorna Simpson, Ebony Heads, 2011 (detail)

30 Americans is up until February 12th, don’t miss it. Check out the Bearden Project before it’s gone, too.

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