Black Artists & Studios

Black Artists & Studios | Archiving & Documenting the artistic cultural production of Black Artists [Creatives] of the Past & Present, in literature, design & the visual arts, and their studios. ∆ Curator | Tanekeya Word All photos are the © of owners:...

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∆ Lorna Simpson | Photographer, Painter, Collagist, Filmmaker, Muva of Black Conceptual Art 

∆ Photographers | Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York, James Wang, Victoria Stevens, etc.

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∆ Toyin Odutola | Illustrator, Draftswoman, Queen of Ink, Ms. Selfie, Mudcloth Lovah 

∆ Photographers | Toyin Odutola, Jack Shaiman Gallery NYC, LotusLand Fine Art, etc.

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∆ Robert Pruitt | Afrofuturist, Illustrator, Brown Paper Man, Charcoal King, Mr. Hair Did, Cosmic Child 

∆ Photographers | ArtPace, Robert Pruitt, etc.

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∆ Ellen Gallagher | Laser Focused, Ms. Paper-Cutter, Collagist, Painter, Wig Aficionada 

∆ Photographers | Independent UK, WSJ, etc.

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∆ Kerry James Marshall | Mr. Black Aesthetic, Profound Colorist, Painter

∆ Photographer | Blouin Art Info, etc.

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∆ Zadie Smith | Novelist, Essayist, Short Story Writer, Editor...

∆ Photographer | Sebastian Kim [pic 2]

                Zadie Smith’s 10 Rules of Writing

When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Avoid your weaknesses. But do this without telling yourself that the things you can’t do aren’t worth doing. Don’t mask self-doubt with contempt.

Leave a decent space of time between writing something and editing it.

Avoid cliques, gangs, groups. The presence of a crowd won’t make your writing any better than it is.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Don’t confuse honours with achievement.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand — but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

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∆ Wangechi Mutu | Collagist, Afrofuturist, Warrior Woman

∆ Photographer | Chris Sanders [pic 1]

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∆ MK Asante | Author, Filmmaker, Professor & BUCK

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∆ Kehinde Wiley | Portraiture, World Traveler & Mr. Custom Suit

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∆ James Baldwin | Writer, Mr. Fire Next Time

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∆ Hebru Brantley | Visual Artist, Gentle Giant, Basquiat's Bastard & Afrofuturist

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∆ Mickalene Thomas | "Like A Rhinestone Cowgirl," Textile + Pattern Fanatic, 70's wanderluster, Painter, Collagist, Mixed Media Aficionada 

∆ Photographer | Alec Bastian for Artsy

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∆ Jacob Lawrence | Painter, Limited Palette Master, Storyteller & Mr. Great Migration

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∆ Kara Walker | Controversial Collagist of Black Silhouette Figures 

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∆ Nina Chanel Abney | Painter, Part-time Shape-Shifter & 30 American

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∆ Jackie Ormes | First African-American Woman Cartoonist & President of the I Stay Fly While I Create Society. 

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∆ Jean-Michel Basquiat | Contemporary American Artist, Graffiti SAMO & Neo-Expressionist hold that Primitivist genre nonsense.