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@asharaekundayo
What a gift to take a weekend respite in Sebastopol CA at the #Earthseed Farm - California'a 1st Afro-Indigenous Permaculture Center! Thank you Pandora Thomas and Crew for the quiet harvest. #blacktotheland #asianpear #BlackPermaculturist #writingretreat
I’ve been nestled away in the redwoods above the city of #SanFrancisco for the last 6-weeks, as #artistinresidence at @villa.sf in a joint-residency with @BlackSpaceResidency and have had a chance to get new perspectives on my curatorial practice and witness my #covid era work flow. Ive been musing and meeting and consulting and producing - enter @monumental_tour, @artistasfirstresponder, @blatantlove, @museumsoco @moadsf and #StoryWindows - but not resting in the way I thought I would and need to. Gonna change that up for these last couple of weeks. #Selfreflective #selflove #lookinside #blackwomensrestmatters (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMhuKO2F6FX/?igshid=mnzp8c8rtabh
BLATANT is a forum and live zine series hosted by #Independentcurator and cultural strategist #AsharaEkundayo that centers the lived experiences and radical imagination of #Blackwomxn artists creating across discipline and geography. Presented in conjunction with her @artistasfirstresponder platform, this monthly discussion highlights artists whose creative practices heal communities and save lives. Follow the Stories at @blublakwomyn @asharaekundayogallery @artistasfirstresponder @moadsf This month @blublakwomyn will be in conversation with @samevernon and @kenturah - TUES, March 16th, 4-530p PST on @moadsf - RSVP #linkinbio Sam Vernon’s installations combine xerox collages, photographs, paintings and sculptural components in an exploration of personal narrative, identity and historical memory. #KenturahDavis uses text as a point of departure, she explores the fundamental role that language has in shaping how we understand ourselves and the world around us. This manifests in a variety of forms including drawings, textiles, and sculpture. #blackart #blackwomenartists #womenshistorymonth #blackinsistence (at Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMTsPJpl5Wp/?igshid=1iwp4slg1zd22
My Aquarius birthday season always finds me meditating on my returning to self and my understanding of my life this time around as a Black being who CREATES SPACES for imagination, exhibition, healing, and ceremony. One of the privileges Of being able to #shelterinplace was being able to envision and being to fruition yet another opportunity for arts practice and freedomwork as part of my own #socialpractice through the co-founding of @blackspaceresidency with my sister friend #EricaDeeman as yet another example of @artistasfirstresponder which is the platform I authored to highlight artists whose creative practices Heal Communities and Save Lives. I’m happy and honored today to share about the journey with my Comrades in public over the next several months! The Museum of the African Diaspora is pleased to present the first in a series of panel discussions featuring the organizers and artists behind Black [Space] Residency, a physical container for imagination, inquiry, activity and rest for Black creatives located at @1240minnesotastreet Studios. Panelists will include 4 of the 9 Members including co-founders @blublakwomyn and @EricaDeeman with @ronmsaunders and @bintaayofemi in conversation about the founding and design of Black [Space] Residency. The conversation will be moderated by @yung_sch0lar @moadsf is a proud supporting partner of Black [Space] Residency. Friday. February 26th from 12-1p PST - RSVP #LINKINBIO #blackhistorymonth #bhm2021 #BLACKART #blackinsistence #blackspace #blackartistspace #blackartists (at Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLw70RwlzEY/?igshid=t4y5bvy51bpg
Honored to be exhibiting some of my photos from the 2018 National Womens Day March in #CapeTown #SouthAfrica at the “Art of the African Diaspora” exhibition - Feb 11-May 16, 2021 @richmondartcenter As an episodic social practice installation artist who designs site-specific commissioned altar pieces, documents justice uprisings, stewards public meditation ceremonies, and designs public printmaking sessions, @blublakwomyn #asharaekundayo’s works are intentionally collaborative, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational. Since 1997 Art of the African Diaspora, in partnership with Richmond Art Center, has supported artists of African descent in the Bay Area through representation, professional development, and building a creative community. #BlackArt #BlackwomensArt #blackphotography #BlackBayArea #blackhistorymonth #artistasfirstresponder (at Richmond Art Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLVz1kplXdu/?igshid=mhx6kv8d9rqr
BLATANT is a forum and live zine by Independent curator #AsharaEkundayo that centers the lived experiences and radical imagination of Black womxn artists and cultural workers creating across discipline and geography. Presented in conjunction with her @artistasfirstresponder platform, this monthly discussion highlights artists whose creative practices heal communities and save lives. This month @blublakwomyn will be in conversation with @redrubes14 and @maorikarmael Yoruba Richen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has been featured on PBS, New York Times Op Doc, Frontline Digital, New York Magazine’s website -The Cut. Her film, How it Feels To Be Free, premiered on PBS’s American Masters in January of 2021. Maori Karmael Holmes is a curator, filmmaker and writer. She founded @blackstarfest in 2012 and serves as its Artistic Director and CEO. She has organized programs in film at a myriad of organizations. As a director, her works have screened internationally including her feature documentary Scene Not Heard: Women in Philadelphia Hip-Hop (2006). #blackwomenartists #blackfilm #blackfilmmakers #blackbrilliance #IamABlackWoman #blackherstory #blackhistorymonth #blackisbeautiful (at Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLFDXbGlxWa/?igshid=zvpjp0w7trbx
Honored to ease into #blackhistorymonth collaborating with my partner to co-inquire, co-create and play through our first joint Artist-In-Residency! For February and March 2021 @villa.sf and @facssf will host @BlacKSpaceResidency creatives Ashara Ekundayo @blublakwomyn and Angela Wellman @wellmanangela for a cross-residency program. We‘ll be researching and designing zines, music education curriculum, exhibition programming and resting. More info #linkinbio #blackwomen #blackartists #curators #blackwomenartists #blackmusic #artistresidency #sanfrancisco #BHM #villasf #thenewuniversal #blackspace (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKyJWPFlxNd/?igshid=18x6wlng845qz
Our quintessential Queen Mother #CicelyTyson has crossed over the river to the realm of The Ancestors. Giving the deepest bow and thanks for ALL that her life presence has meant to me for my entire life. Rest Well Now. #BlackWomenArtists #DarkSkinned #blackisbeautiful https://www.instagram.com/p/CKnBIhnl5-4/?igshid=ee87w1c8z9ti
BLATANT - bold-faced, brazen, unabashed, undeniable Amped and honored to launch Season 2 of my monthly forum BLATANT on Art, Joy & Rage where I center the lived experiences and radical imagination of #Blackwomenartists and cultural workers creating across discipline and geography while highlighting creative practices that heal communities and save lives. Co-presented by @moadsf as part of the @artistasfirstresponder platform January installation welcomes @blublakwomyn with guests @waheedpix and @zoe.charlton.studio to discuss photography, future archives, the Black body, and the impact of COVID19 on their practice. Tuesday, January19th - 4-530p PST #Free #LinkinBio @artistasfirstresponder @blatantlove @blackspaceresidency #blackwomen #blackart #blackinsistence (at Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKHdozJFjcY/?igshid=1hh2821s1pxfu
Our Beloved Sun #TamirRice we remember you, mourn your death, and honor yours and all of our children’s right to play! On December 29th via @nytimes Two Cleveland police officers will avoid federal criminal charges for their role in the killing of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Black boy who had been carrying a pellet gun when he was shot in 2014, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday, citing a lack of evidence in the high-profile case. The announcement drew to a close a five-year federal investigation into the actions of then-Officer Timothy Loehmann and his partner, Officer Frank Garmback, one that has been criticized by Tamir’s family and government watchdogs as deeply flawed and politically influenced. #blacklivesmatter #blackchildrenmatter #justicefortamirrice #womeninmourningandoutrage https://www.instagram.com/p/CJc0dDFlCST/?igshid=1uxs8c5xy4xyb
We are excited and honored to officially launch Black [Space] Residency - a physical container for imagination, inquiry, activity & rest for BLACK CREATIVES on December 21, 2020. Follow is at @blackspaceresidency Black [Space] Residency, co-founded by @erica_deeman and @blublakwomyn, was created to disrupt the systematic institution of white supremacy and anti-blackness within the arts and academic sectors by insisting and intentionally taking up space and funding our arts practice through community organizing! Our inaugural year is by #InviteOnly and offers Artists-In-Residence 24hr-access to our @minnesotastreetproject Studio, the facility, and a weekly stipend for up to 2 months. #linkinbio Our first AIR is #Oakland based Photogtapher @___califia #ChanellStone - Be on the lookout for her #igtakeover in Jan 2021. Gratitude to our Black [Space] Residency Members/Sponsors: @ledette @ronmsaunders @bintaayofemi @mgbowtie @thewondertwin @dbroxtonstudio @blublakwomyn @erica_deeman #MichelleBranch + @moadsf @aaaculturecomplex @artistasfirstresponder @villa.sf #Solstice #Conjunction #AgeofAquarius #BlackArt #BlackFeministThought #BlackArtsMovement #AfroNowism #Afrofuturism (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJIRMs-l6BQ/?igshid=jncbysryx6hk
So honored to wrap my 1st season as a forum #curator of BLATANT at @moadsf with a conversation on visioning and creating #BlackFutures through #newmedia #VR #AR #spacetimecontinuum BLATANT is a forum and live zine series that centers the lived experiences and radical imagination of #Blackwomenartists and cultural workers creating across discipline and geography. This month @blublakwomyn will be in conversation with @karen_seneferu and @yesladypheonix on TUES, Dec 15th, 4-515p pst - RSVP #LINKinBio Karen Seneferu is a mix media artist and educator and the founder and Artistic Director of the exhibit “The Black Woman Is God” #TBWIG which has change the artistic and cultural landscape of California art. Lady PheOnix is a curator of @universe.art and @universecontemporary. She is a leading voice for contemporary digital art and culture providing an essential platform for the art and artists of the of our time. #BlackArt @blatantlove @artistasfirstresponder @blackspaceresidency (at Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIhwOqdl3W9/?igshid=11v507g6rpzsd
I’m so ready to wax poetic on all the creative and political happenings in the world with my Sister-Artivists - you know we are going #Blackwomen DEEP! Join me for another installment of @blatantlove on Tuesday, October 20th, 4-515p pdt - w/ @moadsf #linkinbio This month @blublakwomyn will be in conversation with @amarat.smith and @amarat.smith @blackfemanthro #SavannahShange is an urban anthropologist who works at the intersections of race, place, sexuality, and the state. She is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz with research interests in circulated and lived forms of blackness, ethnographic ethics, Afro-pessimism, and queer of color critique. #AmaraTaborSmith is an Oakland, CA based choreographer/performance maker and the artistic director of Deep Waters Dance Theater. She describes her work as Conjure Art. She makes interdisciplinary site-specific and community responsive performance works utilizing Yoruba Lukumí spiritual technologies to address issues of social and environmental justice, race, gender identity, and belonging. FREE RSVP #linkinbio BLATANT is a forum and live zine series authored and facilitated by Independent curator and cultural strategist #AsharaEkundayo that centers the lived experiences and radical imagination of Black womxn artists and cultural workers creating across discipline and geography. Presented in conjunction with her @artistasfirstresponder platform, this monthly discussion highlights artists whose creative practices heal communities and save lives. #blackwomxn #blackwomen #blackart #blackwomenartists #housefullofblackwomen (at Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGRU9e_lUKb/?igshid=1h0r9eczy6v67
In 1998 I was a graduate student who had traveled from Denver to sit on the floor in an SRO auditorium at Univ of CA-Berkeley to listen/learn from #RuthieWilsonGilmore & #AngelaDavis at the 1st @CriticalResistance Conference. - Mind Blown. Now 22 years later I return to this now national political organization as the Curator of their upcoming exhibition and fundraising auction titled " Imagine Freedom: Art Works for Abolition” - Sept 29-Oct 13 on @Artsy - It’s been a deeply complicated and inspiring 6mos of organizing and birthing this baby! Join us for 22 days of multi-faceted arts discussion and action on how artists and art work is used as a tool to dismantle the systems of prisons, policing and surveillance. 78 Artists, Over 25 Host Committee Members, more than 12 Movement Builders, and a mighty team of Staff, Members, Volunteers and Consultants have shown me what it means to be a Revolutionary! Let’s Go! #ImagineFreedom #prisonindustrialcomplex #prisonabolition #abolition #artistasfirstresponder #artistareessentialworkers (at Artsy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFchJI4F_Fz/?igshid=1k7i4j4mcrjr2
A BLATANT LOVE is given freely. As the Sun sets on this final day of #BlackAugust2020 – a tradition of that originates in the prison system to honor fallen freedom fighters murdered at the hands of the State, we want to echo that we must continue to reimagine freedom, organize, fight, and win our liberation. We know that ARTISTS play an integral role in the design, execution and amplification of the strategy and success of the Movement and that Black womxn and femmes are vital participants in the unbroken line of resistance and sacrifice throughout history. We offer you our whole selves and as part of our #artspractice which never stops, never sleeps, never ends – pandemic be damned! This inaugural issue of BLATANT – a zine on Art, Beauty & Rage presented by @artistasfirstresponder exclusively features the art work of #Blackwomen whose creative practices heal communities and save lives. Limited Edition Printed Copies for Sale and FREE PDF Download Are Available. Info/Link in Bio. Volume One. Issue One. #BlackAugust @b_u_s_h_m_a_m_a @creolemaroon @HouseFullOfBlackWomen @jessicacaremoor @justuskitchen @bluekaza @tar_babyyyy @reginasdoor @samevernon @sonyareneetaylor @asyaabdrahman @blublakwomyn @lynneedenise @waheedpix BLATANT (zine) is produced by Founder/Editor/Creative Director @blublakwomyn Editorial Production Manager @uniqgrace Graphics/layout Editor #justincarder #blatant #blatantlove #blatantrage #blatantbeauty #blatantjoy #blackaugust #august2020 #blacklivesmatter #bipoc #blackhistory #abolition #PrisonIndustrialComplex #blackwomen #blackwomxn #blackart #blackwomenartists #artistasfirstresponder #artistsareessentialworkers (at Oakland, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEk4kC7Fk8j/?igshid=1hgtwt3mgxcz5
We convene. We conjure. Again. Thank You @blackfeministstudy You are cordially invited to a virtual #churchofblackfeministthought gathering on Sunday, April 19th from 12pm-2pm PST/2pm-4pm CST/3pm-5pm EST. As we search our bodyminds for a #Blackfeminist response to the global public health crisis we face and the quarantining, resting, organizing, healing and grieving we must do; we are gathering to contemplate the work of #OctaviaButler in an exploration of how we can care-fully and intentionally seize and shape the change happening around us. For more info and Link plz connect with visionary hosts @tar_babyyyy and @heymiyuki #Octaviatoldus #blackwomen #blackart #blackjoy #blackpower #blackisbeautiful (at Oakland, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-0aW9jF3Am/?igshid=83q2ewzs6r5d
Are we NOW ready to talk #Socialism? #UniversalHealthcare #universalbasicincome I hope so! As the People of the World come together to witness and work together to tell the Truth about and Dismantle structural/institutional and systematic racism, sexism, patriarchy and white supremacy at the root of capitalism (which is the fuel of this pandemic) in this era of COVID-19 and this Time Of Pause And Reset we must re-member the words, strategies, and actions of our Black freedom fighters such as #assatashakur While Indigenous and Black People make up less than 20% of the population of the hardest hit urban cities across of the US we make up more than 65% of the #covid2020 Deaths. This must be noted and talked about extensively as we also take care of ourselves and our living and dead communities. Who will lead the way? #seeblackwomen @seeblackwomxn #ArtistAsFirstResponder (at Oakland, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-uN_8alv5R/?igshid=1qr6wtfolo2aw