Last day of the semester and asurprise profile in The Harvard Crimson about the community built from the vision, venture, and love. Here’s to what lies ahead! Here’s to the care we show for each other through it all. ✨✨❤️ Link in bio
Post board meeting joy at Art Practice, co-founded by Mark Bradford, an organization now nearing its 10th year. What Art Practice in Leimert Park, Los Angeles has done for foster youth, for children of refugees, for the cultural life of the area and more is just extraordinary. Flew out for quick 36 hour trip just to be there, learn, honor it all and him, one of my many amazing brothers in this life. Such a proud board member along with Anita Hill, Ari Emanuel, and many more. To make the journey and not love each other well in the midst of all? We cannot. Here’s to finding more ways to live it out with each other in the midst of this intense time ✨💫🤍
What a time speaking with the extraordinary Deborah Roberts about her comet ride of a practice! The honestly, the clarity, urgency and rigor. The bravery. We were all witnessing history. Deborah is, as my dear friend Sharese said last night, our forever elder. The wisdom. A favorite question from the audience: Will there be any pedagogy that comes out of your paintings? Translation: the art is so stunning and capacious that each are lessons. I’m so glad that we’ll do it again for SXSW in Austin in March. Please buy her book now before it sells out.
What a time speaking with the extraordinary Deborah Roberts about her comet ride of a practice! The honestly, the clarity, urgency and rigor. The bravery. We were all witnessing history. Deborah is, as my dear friend Sharese said last night, our forever elder. The wisdom. A favorite question from the audience: Will there be any pedagogy that comes out of your paintings? Translation: the art is so stunning and capacious that each are lessons. I’m so glad that we’ll do it again for SXSW in Austin in March. Please buy her book now before it sells out.
What a time speaking with the extraordinary Deborah Roberts about her comet ride of a practice! The honestly, the clarity, urgency and rigor. The bravery. We were all witnessing history. Deborah is, as my dear friend Sharese said last night, our forever elder. The wisdom. A favorite question from the audience: Will there be any pedagogy that comes out of your paintings? Translation: the art is so stunning and capacious that each are lessons. I’m so glad that we’ll do it again for SXSW in Austin in March. Please buy her book now before it sells out.
What a time speaking with the extraordinary Deborah Roberts about her comet ride of a practice! The honestly, the clarity, urgency and rigor. The bravery. We were all witnessing history. Deborah is, as my dear friend Sharese said last night, our forever elder. The wisdom. A favorite question from the audience: Will there be any pedagogy that comes out of your paintings? Translation: the art is so stunning and capacious that each are lessons. I’m so glad that we’ll do it again for SXSW in Austin in March. Please buy her book now before it sells out.
What a time speaking with the extraordinary Deborah Roberts about her comet ride of a practice! The honestly, the clarity, urgency and rigor. The bravery. We were all witnessing history. Deborah is, as my dear friend Sharese said last night, our forever elder. The wisdom. A favorite question from the audience: Will there be any pedagogy that comes out of your paintings? Translation: the art is so stunning and capacious that each are lessons. I’m so glad that we’ll do it again for SXSW in Austin in March. Please buy her book now before it sells out.
Honoring the luminosity of the soul by celebrating the stunning works of the extraordinary Sir Isaac Julien at the American Academy in Rome gala.
Honoring the luminosity of the soul by celebrating the stunning works of the extraordinary Sir Isaac Julien at the American Academy in Rome gala.
Honoring the luminosity of the soul by celebrating the stunning works of the extraordinary Sir Isaac Julien at the American Academy in Rome gala.
Honoring the luminosity of the soul by celebrating the stunning works of the extraordinary Sir Isaac Julien at the American Academy in Rome gala.
Honoring the luminosity of the soul by celebrating the stunning works of the extraordinary Sir Isaac Julien at the American Academy in Rome gala.
Thank you to the Black Artists and Designers Guild for the honor of this award tonight! ✨
So much joy in that room tonight! So many tears of release. Thank you for the love tonight in this stunning sweet Charleston for the Vision & Justice talk for the Gibbs 2023 Distinguished Lecture series. The last time I was in the theater was in 2016 to celebrate a work I had selected for the Spoleto Festival to honor the Emanuel 9: the commission of Carrie Mae Weems’s magisterial work, Grace Notes: Reflections for Now. Charleston has a profound place in my heart for all that its history has inspired. Thank you for allowing me to come back and feel like I have in this city another home. Thinking of the Emanuel 9 tonight: Clementa C. Pinckney Cynthia Graham Hurd Susie Jackson Ethel Lee Lance Depayne Middleton-Doctor Tywanza Sanders Daniel L. Simmons Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Myra Thompson We honor you. Standing O? Thank you so. I’ll see you again.
So much joy in that room tonight! So many tears of release. Thank you for the love tonight in this stunning sweet Charleston for the Vision & Justice talk for the Gibbs 2023 Distinguished Lecture series. The last time I was in the theater was in 2016 to celebrate a work I had selected for the Spoleto Festival to honor the Emanuel 9: the commission of Carrie Mae Weems’s magisterial work, Grace Notes: Reflections for Now. Charleston has a profound place in my heart for all that its history has inspired. Thank you for allowing me to come back and feel like I have in this city another home. Thinking of the Emanuel 9 tonight: Clementa C. Pinckney Cynthia Graham Hurd Susie Jackson Ethel Lee Lance Depayne Middleton-Doctor Tywanza Sanders Daniel L. Simmons Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Myra Thompson We honor you. Standing O? Thank you so. I’ll see you again.
So much joy in that room tonight! So many tears of release. Thank you for the love tonight in this stunning sweet Charleston for the Vision & Justice talk for the Gibbs 2023 Distinguished Lecture series. The last time I was in the theater was in 2016 to celebrate a work I had selected for the Spoleto Festival to honor the Emanuel 9: the commission of Carrie Mae Weems’s magisterial work, Grace Notes: Reflections for Now. Charleston has a profound place in my heart for all that its history has inspired. Thank you for allowing me to come back and feel like I have in this city another home. Thinking of the Emanuel 9 tonight: Clementa C. Pinckney Cynthia Graham Hurd Susie Jackson Ethel Lee Lance Depayne Middleton-Doctor Tywanza Sanders Daniel L. Simmons Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Myra Thompson We honor you. Standing O? Thank you so. I’ll see you again.
So much joy in that room tonight! So many tears of release. Thank you for the love tonight in this stunning sweet Charleston for the Vision & Justice talk for the Gibbs 2023 Distinguished Lecture series. The last time I was in the theater was in 2016 to celebrate a work I had selected for the Spoleto Festival to honor the Emanuel 9: the commission of Carrie Mae Weems’s magisterial work, Grace Notes: Reflections for Now. Charleston has a profound place in my heart for all that its history has inspired. Thank you for allowing me to come back and feel like I have in this city another home. Thinking of the Emanuel 9 tonight: Clementa C. Pinckney Cynthia Graham Hurd Susie Jackson Ethel Lee Lance Depayne Middleton-Doctor Tywanza Sanders Daniel L. Simmons Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Myra Thompson We honor you. Standing O? Thank you so. I’ll see you again.
So much joy in that room tonight! So many tears of release. Thank you for the love tonight in this stunning sweet Charleston for the Vision & Justice talk for the Gibbs 2023 Distinguished Lecture series. The last time I was in the theater was in 2016 to celebrate a work I had selected for the Spoleto Festival to honor the Emanuel 9: the commission of Carrie Mae Weems’s magisterial work, Grace Notes: Reflections for Now. Charleston has a profound place in my heart for all that its history has inspired. Thank you for allowing me to come back and feel like I have in this city another home. Thinking of the Emanuel 9 tonight: Clementa C. Pinckney Cynthia Graham Hurd Susie Jackson Ethel Lee Lance Depayne Middleton-Doctor Tywanza Sanders Daniel L. Simmons Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Myra Thompson We honor you. Standing O? Thank you so. I’ll see you again.
So much joy in that room tonight! So many tears of release. Thank you for the love tonight in this stunning sweet Charleston for the Vision & Justice talk for the Gibbs 2023 Distinguished Lecture series. The last time I was in the theater was in 2016 to celebrate a work I had selected for the Spoleto Festival to honor the Emanuel 9: the commission of Carrie Mae Weems’s magisterial work, Grace Notes: Reflections for Now. Charleston has a profound place in my heart for all that its history has inspired. Thank you for allowing me to come back and feel like I have in this city another home. Thinking of the Emanuel 9 tonight: Clementa C. Pinckney Cynthia Graham Hurd Susie Jackson Ethel Lee Lance Depayne Middleton-Doctor Tywanza Sanders Daniel L. Simmons Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Myra Thompson We honor you. Standing O? Thank you so. I’ll see you again.
Honored to be the Distinguished Lecturer for the great Gibbs Museum of Art in Charleston! Such a joy to chat with Leyla Gulen this morning after a wonderful tour by Director Angels Mack, capped by time in the visiting artist studios with a Vision & Justice sighting by artist Alice Cohen! Lecture tonight coming up. Charleston was the place where I first began to see the role of art and culture for inspiring love and healing during times of unspeakable pain in this world, if the kind we find ourselves in today. It feels so powerful and important for me to return to it now to continue the work.
Honored to be the Distinguished Lecturer for the great Gibbs Museum of Art in Charleston! Such a joy to chat with Leyla Gulen this morning after a wonderful tour by Director Angels Mack, capped by time in the visiting artist studios with a Vision & Justice sighting by artist Alice Cohen! Lecture tonight coming up. Charleston was the place where I first began to see the role of art and culture for inspiring love and healing during times of unspeakable pain in this world, if the kind we find ourselves in today. It feels so powerful and important for me to return to it now to continue the work.
Honored to be the Distinguished Lecturer for the great Gibbs Museum of Art in Charleston! Such a joy to chat with Leyla Gulen this morning after a wonderful tour by Director Angels Mack, capped by time in the visiting artist studios with a Vision & Justice sighting by artist Alice Cohen! Lecture tonight coming up. Charleston was the place where I first began to see the role of art and culture for inspiring love and healing during times of unspeakable pain in this world, if the kind we find ourselves in today. It feels so powerful and important for me to return to it now to continue the work.
Honored to be the Distinguished Lecturer for the great Gibbs Museum of Art in Charleston! Such a joy to chat with Leyla Gulen this morning after a wonderful tour by Director Angels Mack, capped by time in the visiting artist studios with a Vision & Justice sighting by artist Alice Cohen! Lecture tonight coming up. Charleston was the place where I first began to see the role of art and culture for inspiring love and healing during times of unspeakable pain in this world, if the kind we find ourselves in today. It feels so powerful and important for me to return to it now to continue the work.
I’m so honored to be able to present Sir Isaac Julien with an award from the American Academy in Rome. How much do I, do so very many of us, admire this incredible artist? I’m glad I have a full speech to say just how much. His work is for the ages. Our generation is lucky to have him in our midst now. See you soon, Sir!