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engaging black diasporic thought,
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Join us for the first iteration of our Material Cultures workshop and lecture series, Reclamation Praxis on Sunday, October 25th from 1-4 PM @thedigschicago.

This event brings together artist-educators Naomi Coke and AJ McClennon for a conversation on wild clay, sustainable artmaking, and the cultural histories held within the materials we gather and create with.

The conversation facilitated by @samiahfulcher will be shortly followed by a hands-on wild clay processing demonstration led by Naomi. Materials provided. No prior experience necessary.

Naomi Coke: @fearofablackfemme is an oral historian, community design practitioner, and land artist whose practice draws on Jamaican Maroon lineages, material reclamation, and intergenerational land healing. With a background in regenerative building practices and archival research, Naomi’s work focuses on place-based approaches to repair, relation building, and Black-Indigenous futurity.

AJ McClenon: @middlenamejanae is an assistant professor at SAIC and active multidisciplinary artist in Chicago by way of Washington, D.C. whose work brings personal narrative into conversation with empirical data to explore sociopolitical concepts of truth, cultural amnesia, and their absurdities.

$10-20 sliding scale suggested donation. 100% of donations go directly to our featured artists for sharing their time and expertise. Priority for BIPOC artists, educators, and community members.

Spaces are limited. RSVP link in bio. by @fourthark

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“Let us build a Black communiversity which will educate our people from the cradle to the grave.”

excerpt from John O. Killens, The Artist and the Black University as published in the November 1969 issue of The Black Scholar on “The Culture of Revolution.” by @fourthark

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I. Earth, Body, Form
II. Water, Memory, Flow
III. Fire, Spirit, Purpose
IV. Air, Mind, Consciousness by @fourthark

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Last Sunday we closed out our book club’s read of Assata: An Autobiography with a discussion of some of the most powerful themes of the book’s recount of Assata Shakur’s revolutionary life.

Here’s a few of our favorite quotes and reflections on revolution, love, and the power of community.

More public study, dialogue, and exploration to come. by @fourthark

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2 years ago

Untitled by @joeliusdubois
Charcoal + Graphite on Paper by @fourthark

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2 years ago

Tracey Emin, 1997 by @fourthark

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4 years ago

AI002 bell hooks

“Just as we are often unable to speak about our need to love and be loved because we fear our words would be interpreted as signs of weakness or failure, so are we rarely able to share our thoughts about death and dying. No wonder then that we are collectively unable to confront the significance of grief.”

Excerpt from All About Love: New Visions

Rest in peace to a literary ancestor whose life and works inspired the pens of so many. may we learn to speak more freely and vulnerably in her honor. by @fourthark

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5 years ago

AI001 Adrian Piper

“Each field calls on different capacities of the mind — philosophy on intellection, critical reflection and cognitive discrimination; art on perception, intuition and visualization — even though bringing a work in either field to completion requires the involvement of all of these capacities. But I would go further and suggest that any two disciplines are never in themselves necessarily mutually exclusive for anyone. Those who are inclined to exercise their abilities in more than one creative discipline (and philosophy is no less a creative discipline than art) are not usually also inclined to the kind of binary, either/or thinking that permits activity in one only at the expense of another...”
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An excerpt from the artist-academic’s interview with Artforum senior editor Lauren O’Neill Butler, discussing her work as well as the synthesis of philosophy and the arts. taken in New York, New York by @fourthark

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