Category: Artists
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Landry Butler
Landry Butler Toward the Dawn (Vers l’aube) is a deeply personal and meditative piece created from a spectrum of black-to-gray dreadlocks, shorn from my own head over a period of more than three decades. Affixed with linen thread to canvas, the 16×20-inch work evokes the tonal gradation of black-and-white photography and the symbolic language of…
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LeXander Bryant
LeXander Bryant “LeXander Bryant is an Alabama-born photographer and visual artist based in Nashville, TN. Focused on capturing the essence of Black Folks, particularly in the American South, his work centers around the documentation & design of the black experience through stories of triumph, resilience, and cultural identity. LeXander has been featured in both group…
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Brittney Boyd Bullock
Brittney Boyd Bullock Brittney Boyd Bullock is a Memphis visual artist, arts program director, and entrepreneur. She’s worked as Project Manager for the Urban Art Commission, managing Memphis’s largest public art archive, and as the Partnerships and Community Engagement Manager for Crosstown Concourse & Crosstown Arts, overseeing various collaborative creative programs and exhibitions. She’s now…
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Omari Booker
Omari Booker Omari Booker, visual artist based in Nashville, and Los Angeles, CA, began his journey as an artist his senior year of high school at Montgomery Bell Academy. While attending Belmont University, Omari studied Mathematics and other more traditional curricula before he finally focused on studio art and graphic design. He later earned his…
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Olasubomi Aka-Bashorun
Olasubomi Aka-Bashorun For Ola, art is more than creating aesthetic images. It is about releasing emotions that are hard to let go: one’s deepest desires, anger, frustrations, and lust. It’s about expressing the good, the bad, and ugly. It’s about finding solution, discovering yourself, and escaping. Art is therapy. Art is poetry in a different…
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Earl J. Hooks
Earl J. Hooks Earl J. Hooks was a nationally renowned artist celebrated for his contributions in sculpture, ceramics and photography. His artistic oeuvre spanned over sixty years and was highlighted in an exhibit titled “The Art of Photography: Through the Eyes of Earl J. Hooks,” which featured fifty photographs and three-dimensional works. This exhibition was…
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Alicia Henry
Alicia Henry “Isolation and interaction is a common recurring idea in my work. I am interested in the complexities and the contradictions surrounding familial relationships as well as societal differences and how these variations affect individual and group responses to themes of Beauty, the Body, and Identity. My current work explores these ideas, addressing the…
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Alice Aida Ayers
Alice Aida Ayers “My art is about energy, relationships between people, with the environment, and the universe. The colors of the figures represent the kind of energy that is put out into the world during certain activities or events. Everyday activities and shared experiences comprise the pieces in this series. Overall, they are a celebration…
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Magdalena Story
Magdalena Story Magdalene V. Story, 92 years old, has been sewing quilts most of her life. This pattern was made from quilting pieces that had been cut and stored in an old trunk that belonged to her mother, Mattie B. Preston, who passed away in 1972. We are unable to date as to when the…
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Dawn Smith
Dawn Smith “I am a native of Johnson City, TN. I am a crafter at heart. I learned to sew at an early age, completing my first outfit at 8 years old. In my teens, I taught crafts to the younger girls attending Bertha Ellis Girls Club. I received my B.S. degree in Food Systems…
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