i am not a barbie

my name is kim. this is my personal tumblr. founder of black contemporary art. instagram + twitter: museummammy

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Olivier Theyskens- Fall 1998 Ready-to-Wear

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Ajita Wilson: The first Trans woman to appear as Jet Magazine’s Beauty of The Week. Considered by many to be the first transgender black woman to break into the movie industry.

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Park McArthur Private Signs, 2014 UV-cured inkjet print on Dibond 55 panels, overall: 126 x 148 inches (320.04 x 375.92 cm)Edition of 3 plus 1 AP

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#PAYBLACKTiME is my white-money transference system that provides free meals via Seamless / GrubHub to Black + Brown folx across the North Americas.

All orders are paid for by the White Guilt Reparations Fund for white people who ask “What can I do?” during a time when we have heavily publicized evidence of their race’s direct connection to the continuous suffering and disenfranchisement of Black / Brown people worldwide. YOU CAN HELP in alleviating our stress by putting $ into the PayPal account I use to pay for the delivery orders. It is an easy, bare minimum action that has a major impact on real living people. It’s TANGiBLE, it’s DiRECT, it’s iMMEDIATE, it’s #PAYBLACKTiME $30 covers one $15 Seamless order after tax/tip/delivery fees/PayPal fees. If you put in $40 or more you’ll receive a complimentary PAYBLACKTiME keychain (include your address in your donation comments).

Thanks to *y’all’s money, guilt, and shares on Facebook, I have raised over $4000 in under a week, which is AWESOME. The only thing is I have already spent nearly $4000 on meals and this program can only continue with your ongoing support!! So please DONATE and REBLOG and PRiNT THESE IMAGES OUT AND POST THEM iN YOUR NEiGHBORHOOD/ SCHOOL / LOCAL COFFEE SHOP, ETC

🌸 thanks for listening 🌸 - RAFiA

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“The Progeny Sketchbook”

Watercolor and Pen on Paper

2015

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http://ashleydoggett.tumblr.com/

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Hi Tumblr, it’s Kimberly Drew (aka @museummammy) reporting live from Art Basel Miami Beach and I’m going to be answering your questions for the next hour. Submit your questions now: http://blackcontemporaryart.tumblr.com/ask

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MIAMI

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HELLO: Tomorrow at 11AM EST, Kimberly Drew (aka @MuseumMammy), the founder of @blackcontemporaryart, will be answering your questions live during #AnswerTime. You can send in your questions now! 

DETAILS:

+ Since launching BCA on Tumblr in 2011, Kim has worked for @creativetime, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and @lehmannmaupin. Kim currently manages The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s social media feeds. 

+ Tomorrow at 11am, you can send her all of your questions about art, social media, and more. Submit your questions here: http://blackcontemporaryart.tumblr.com/ask

+ Want to know more? Check out her website: http://museummammy.club/

Photo: @miafermindoza-folio

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The Deep Web

Curator Kimberly Drew shows us her favorite places on the web.

By Kimberly Drew. Illustration by Elly Malone.

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Grace Jones in her restaurant ‘La Vie en Rose’ in 1987 in New York City. Credit: Peter Carrette Archive

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First girl to scream on the track

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I spent about 15 hours stitching this feminist art meme 😂

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Meet the Black Art Incubator -- a collaborative in residence at Recess (41 Grand Street, NYC) through August 19. Visit Recess’s website for full details: http://www.recessart.org/blackartincubator/ 

All photo courtesy: @kingtexas​

About Black Art Incubator

From July 14 -- August 19, Taylor Renee Aldridge, Jessica Bell Brown, Kimberly Drew, and Jessica Lynne will host the Black Art Incubator—a project that will use Recess’s storefront space as a hub for public programming and the dissemination of resources for artists and arts professionals.

The Black Art Incubator is a social sculpture designed to create an intervention in the “art world” through a series of public events that bring together artists, curators, community members, critics, and scholars. Using collaboration and public engagement as guiding methodologies, the Black Art Incubator will seek to provoke new understandings of the myriad sectors that comprise the contemporary art world. The Black Art Incubator, although open and accessible to people from all backgrounds, is rooted in the nexus of the African Diaspora. The Black Art Incubator specifically aims to prioritize Black subjectivity through the use of social sculpture. The space serves as an evolving think tank, that is available for use by people of the community.

Modeling itself after an incubator, the project will offer a range of artist-led conversations, critical dialogues, panels, and teach-ins devoted to fostering discourse about community, history, and collaborative cultural production. Visitors will be invited to participate in and contribute to weekly programs including workshops on archives, conversations about art & money, office hours with leaders in the field, and open critique sessions for selected artists; more details are available in the “Events” column to the left. Notes, images, and other traces of these programs will accrue in the space, transforming Recess into a spatialized working document.

By developing a vibrant and accessible site and an accompanying set of programs, the Black Art Incubator will give specific form to an art world community—one that is united by a collective, process-based practice of self-care, knowledge-sharing, and discursive exchange.