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A few pics from our tournament last week ⛳️ 📸

(photo credits: Kwaku Osei)

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So many things went better than good on this trip. The @geesbendwtth team had an amazing time at this year’s #AiringOfTheQuilts festival in #GeesBend (@visitgeesbend)!
I absolutely want to thank the ancestors first for lookin’ out for us, laying the ground work in their lifetimes to make our work that much more possible, and just bein’ some down ass Afrikans and New Afrikans dedicated to the liberation of our people.
Martha Jane Pettway, Rubin Bendolph Jr., Aunt Deborah, Fannie Lou Hamer, Cudjo Lewis, Omowale El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X), Estelle Witherspoon, Marcus Garvey; just to name a few.
We’ve got a fuller recap on the way for our @geesbendwtth page, but I just wanted to share a little myself of our experience.
Thank you to everyone we connected with out there. I wish we took more pictures together lol !
So proud of the team too!! Shoutout to @xsaviorism, @c_jefferson_, @julian_argo, and @afro_daakye for holdin it down on this trip and throughout the whole project. Shoutout @byarielbrown & @auntyenii_ who couldn’t make it, but are ESSENTIAL to this project as well!
Huge shoutout to the organizers of this year’s festival @fqb.legacy and @sewgeesbend_heritagebuilders; amazing job!
Images 1, 5, and 7 courtesy of the highly skilled elder @gusbennettphoto; appreciate you dearly brotha!
#GeesBendWTTH

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We are honored to have a true champion of the arts, Gail Belvett, lead a Slow Art Tour of our exhibition next Saturday (July 11) at the Horace Williams House.

Please join us! Bring a friend.

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It's been a while, but I’m back! 🙌🏾

Join me for Slow Art tours at three amazing exhibitions featuring some of my favorite artists.

I can’t wait to be inspired by your insights and perspectives as we look closely, connecting with one another and art.

📆 Save the dates:

July 3, 4 - 5 pm, Artspace Raleigh: “A Taste of Your Love,” a solo exhibition by Nori McDuffie

July 11, 1:30 - 2:30 pm, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill: “Through Veins & Vines,” featuring Kwaku Osei and William Paul Thomas

July 17, 6:30 - 7:30 pm, Jobe House at VAE Raleigh: “My Cousin’s House,” a group exhibition curated by Whitney Stanley

See you soon!

#artisttalk #slowart

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Saturday was for the Kwaku Ananse's 🕷🇬🇭 One graduating PreK 🥹. The other bringing the art of healing alive "Through Veins and Vines " along with @willart4food. We couldn't be prouder or more in awe.

Due yourself a favor and head to the Horace Williams House today through August for an experience your heart won't soon forget!

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Yesterday I went to see the work of two incredibly talented local artists @willart4food and @afro_daakye. Their work is on exhibit at Horace Williams House through July 26th, these pictures don’t do them justice. Make sure you check them out! Afterwards, we went and had dinner at Boxyards, a perfect Saturday.

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Congratulations to our 2025-2026 Emerging Artist Grant Recipients!

The Emerging Artists Program (EAP) is a project grant program that provides financial support to developing or established professionals by funding a project pivotal to the advancement of their careers as artists. Here’s this year’s awarded artists:

Kwaku Osei, Photography
Matthew Sandbank, Multi-Discipline/Performing
Shyheim Stephens, Music
Maria Britton, 2D
Kaisen Barnes, Sculpture/Installation
Rebekah Fleming, Craft
Maitri Acharya, Dance
G.R. Amayabarön, Sculpture/Installation
Michael Todd McPhail, Film/Video
Aelya Salman, Literature
Hillary Ensminger, Film/Video
Charlie Probus, Theatre
Meg Day, Literature

The Emerging Artists program is funded by The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the Kelley Katzenmeyer Fund, the Anika James Foundation, the DAC Annual Arts Fund, and it is supported by our Partner Counties (Chatham, Orange, and Person).

Emerging Artists FY26 Cycle is Closed. Applications for FY27 will Open October 2026.

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My first solo exhibition, The Calling: Hoodoo’s Communion with the Ancestors, closed January 2nd, but my heart is still so full from the entire experience!
I have endless gratitude for everyone who could and couldn’t make it out to see the exhibition and participate in the programming. The exhibition was a definite success. Most importantly, I honored my own and our collective ancestors properly. Knowing that and sharing additional knowledge around the ways we can achieve our liberation means the world to me.
If you missed the exhibition, visit my website to see images from the installation.

The discussion between myself, @DeltaArtsCenter’s Program Director and Curator @Capital_Teej, and Public Historian Damarius Johnson will be viewable online soon; look out for that!

You can also purchase the replay of the discussion between one of the @TwinHoodooMuthas @JeidaKStorey and me, hosted by @Ancestral_Voices at the link in my bio.

I’m so pleased with how everything went. I’ve got a couple of inquiries I’ll be following up on soon about taking this exhibition to other spaces, so keep your eyes open for that update when details get solidified.

Special thank you to EVERYONE who had a hand in making this happen. It is NEVER just me.. my ancestors move with me, my comrades, my family, my close friends, my collaborators, my community.. I love and appreciate you all. The list is too long to drop everybody’s name, but thank you all so much.

While my solo was on view, I offered some 8.5 x 11 inch prints of Guidance and Preparation exclusively at Delta Arts Center. Now I’ve chosen to make this 21 print run available online!
Each archival pigment print is $200 (including tax and shipping) and comes signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity.
Hit the link in my bio to purchase.

Photo credit:
1, 7 - 17, 19: @byellejoseph
6,8: @shotbynori

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35mm Film Scans from January 2024 up until present day from my series Life and Times

© 2024 Phillip Loken/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Portfolio/Website: https://PLStudio.xyz
All Inquiries: PL@PLStudio.xyz

What’s crazy is I looked up and realized I hadn’t shared any of my film photography work since December 2023. I always move a lot slower with my film photography, but I’ve fasho been cookin. These scans are from as early as January 2024 up until now and span my travels to Selma, Alabama, Gee’s Bend, D.C., Atlanta, a couple airports and other locations in between.
I love my people, our people, and I love making images of them.

#blackphotographer #documentaryphotographer #fineartphotographers #blackartspace #philliploken

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Surreal Salon 18 is Baton Rouge Gallery’s annual international exhibition celebrating the pop-surrealist/lowbrow art movement with over 60 artists from across the globe. Each participating artist was hand selected by this year’s Special Guest Juror, Swoon (@swoonhq), out of an overwhelming 800+ submissions.

We are excited to present to you ten of those artists:

- Grace Aldrich, Bonner Springs, KS
- John Diephouse, Lansing, MI
- Wes Ladner, Birmingham, AL
- Amy Kollar Anderson, Dayton, OH
- Joshua Porterfield, Somerville, MA
- Carson Williams, Metaire, LA
- Muscle Memory Collective, Las Cruces, NM
- Kwaku Osei, Durham, NC
- Ryan Keith, Delta, B.C., CN
- Taryn Riley, Palmetto, FL

On View:
Jan 2-25

Gallery Hours:
Tues-Sun (12pm-6pm)
Free & Open To The Public

Learn more at batonrougegallery.org

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Ho Ho Ho Y’all!!!

Thank you to everyone who made the time to come out to Oh Snap! Forum this year.

It’s hard to believe that an entire year has passed. What started as an idea has grown into a space for connection, learning, and shared creativity.

A heartfelt thank you to our speakers for generously sharing their knowledge, experiences, and perspectives, and to our venues for opening their doors and helping us create spaces that felt welcoming and inspiring. None of this would have been possible without you!

As we close out this year, we’re filled with gratitude and excitement for what’s ahead. We can’t wait to keep creating, connecting, and sharing space together in the New Year.
Wishing you all a restful and joyful holiday season!

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P.S. Mark your calendar for our next event on January 22—a hands-on workshop focused on filming interviews, including demonstrations of constant lighting setups and essential camera gear.

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