This week’s #ArtistOfTheWeek goes to Jamaal Barber, @jbarberstudio. An artist and printmaker exploring Black identity, Barber’s primary medium is printmaking. His wood cuts and mixed media prints have been featured in many local Atlanta shows, including the Decatur Arts Festival, Atlanta Print Biennial Show and more. He’s also done...
This week's #ArtistOfTheWeek is Angela Davis Johnson Fine Art.
Per her biography, she is inspired by the matriarchs of her family and “creates paintings, sculptures, installations and ritual performances to examine and archive the technologies of black folks.” Her process is what she calls Live Dreaming which entails deep...
The hype for the new Candyman starring Yaya Abduhl-Mateen is real, but how well do you know the original story? The tale is grisly--it centers around a Black male artist who falls in love with a rich white woman in 1870s Chicago. You can guess what happened next. When...