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Basil Kincaid | International Contemporary Artist

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Great studio visit with the incredibly gracious and talented Basil Kincaid. His balance of innovation and personal history will stay with me. Thank you to Basil and, to @honoguy and @themomentary for making it happen.

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Legendary throwbacks.

How?

Because we’ve always been aligned…

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art+mgmt is pleased to share that Basil Kincaid (@basilkincaid) is the artist in residence at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (@crystalbridgesmuseum) this fall, maintaining a studio at The Momentary (@themomentary) in Bentonville, Arkansas.

The residency follows Kincaid’s inclusion in America 250: Common Threads at Crystal Bridges, where a quilted work by the artist was exhibited and subsequently acquired by the Museum. Kincaid’s family has quilting roots in Arkansas, and this sustained time in Bentonville offers space for new research grounded in that lineage.

While in residence, Kincaid will develop a series of works on paper and lay the foundation for new bodies of textile work. The residency also extends the Artist’s practice of play beyond the studio and into shared communal spaces, through game nights and calisthenics workshops that position physical movement and exploration as modes of creative practice.

We look forward to following the work that emerges from this time in Bentonville!

Pictured: Portrait of Basil Kincaid, 2026, Rubell Museum, D.C. Photo by Mariah Miranda. Kincaid is pictured with The Courtship of Lightnin’ Bugs, 2023. Collection of Rubell Museum.

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We are thrilled to be listed in this year’s ArtNews Top 200 Collectors! Bob Clark founded Clayco, a design and construction company based in St. Louis, Missouri, that considers “the art and science of building” its center point, in 1984. It wasn’t until 2010, however, when he met his wife, Jane, that he began taking collecting more seriously. Together, their passion for art has grown into a collection of more than 300 works (and counting) of contemporary artists, with many of them lining the Clayco offices’ walls across the United States.

“Helping artists created enthusiasm in us—being with them on the journey, seeing them grow as artists and become well known in the art community,” Jane told the Observer in a 2026 interview about working with emerging contemporary artists. The Clarks met Theaster Gates before his rise to fame in the art world, for instance, and early in their collecting acquired work by such artists as Derrick Adams, Rashid Johnson, and Ebony G. Patterson, prior to the establishment of their current markets and reputations.

“We are drawn to artists who are not only creating exceptional work, but who are shaping culture through the way they live and engage with others,” the Clarks explained.

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Critical engagements this week with Black Men from every corner of the arts ecosystem, and an international parlay to boot.

That’s how we move.

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BUILDING AMERICA 🇺🇸
CONNECTING THE DIASPORA 🌍

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I’m way more comfortable in an operational environment than you could ever imagine.

I’ll leave the galas and the dinners for the folks that move that way.

We in the streets.
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Self, Seek, Become

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Sunday morning at @studiomuseum in Harlem, thank you @natashallikesthis for your seemingly endless energy for us and all these kids ❤️ I have visited several times in the last year, and I have never seen the same thing twice.

FYI, every Sunday the Studio Museum in Harlem is free admission. Every Sunday afternoon from 12-4 is an all-ages art-making workshop, where you can bring your kids, or your grandmother, or your second date.
Bring your friends, that’s what I did. It was perfect.

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💪🎨 What happens when art, exercise, and community come together?⁠
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St. Louis artist Basil Kincaid has helped transform a grassy lot in Gravois Park into a free, artist-designed calisthenics park where neighbors can work out, connect, and spend time outdoors.⁠
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The new pocket park, located next to the Melvin Theatre Community Center at Chippewa and Pennsylvania, grew out of Kincaid’s own love of exercise and his desire to bring the kind of communal outdoor fitness spaces he’d seen in other cities to South St. Louis.⁠
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✍️ Sarah Fenske⁠
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Head to the link in bio to see the new space and learn how Kincaid, the Melvin Theatre Community Center, and the Regional Arts Commission brought it to life.

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Had the opportunity to shoot the grand opening of my brother @basilkincaid calisthenics park in the Gravois Park neighborhood. One of the most fulfilling shoots I’ve done in a while and the community came out in droves. the love in south city is beautiful.

Go check it out now at Chippewa St & Pennsylvania Ave

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Weekend was active

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Thank you to everyone who came out on Saturday in support of the unveiling of Basil Kincaid’s (@basilkincaid) new calisthenics pocket park! St. Louis Public Radio (@stlpublicradio) was there, with a story that aired today and is now online.

The park is the culmination of a decade-long practice: calisthenics and fiber arts developing in parallel, each strengthening the other. It is free and open to the public 24/7, located at the corner of Chippewa and Pennsylvania, developed in collaboration with the Melvin Theater Community Center and KOMPAN.

“The quilt-making and the calisthenics all sort of folded in, hand in hand,” Kincaid said. “It was having physical effects too, but I started noticing how the exercise was doing way more for my mind and my spirit.”

You can hear more about the event on stlpr.org. And join us for a workout the next time you’re in the area!

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A creative breakthrough years ago helped weave the way toward a newly opened, fitness-oriented pocket park on Chippewa Street in south St. Louis.

Multidisciplinary artist @basilkincaid was focused on painting and collage about 10 years ago, when he branched into fiber arts — particularly large-scale quilts.

Kincaid, a St. Louis native who now splits his time between the city and the Greater Accra Region in Ghana, had been experiencing depression about a decade ago and felt generally unhealthy. He was excited by his new artistic direction — which sometimes involved hunting around the city for spare fabric and assembling projects on tall scaffolding — but didn’t feel physically fit enough to stitch all the ideas in his head into reality.

He started a calisthenics training program.

“The quilt-making and the calisthenics all sort of folded in, hand in hand,” Kincaid said. “It was having physical effects too, but I started noticing how the exercise was doing way more for my mind and my spirit. I was amazed at how I was sleeping better. I was not getting as depressed. I was having clearer thoughts and ideas.

“I wanted to improve my mental health and ended up getting jacked on accident,” he added with a laugh.

Kincaid and his collaborators are now offering a freely accessible way to pursue a similar path.

A community cookout on Saturday marked the opening of a small calisthenics park in an underused grassy lot on along the border of Gravois Park and Dutchtown.

Kincaid worked with the Melvin Theater Community Center and Texas-based playground equipment designer KOMPAN to design the pocket park, nestled into a corner of the lot adjacent to the Melvin.

The oval-shaped space includes shock-absorbant flooring, monkey bars and other bars fixed in place, on which visitors can run through assisted pushups, dips and other exercises. Small signs suggest ways to use the equipment, with QR codes linking to more extensive directions.

Tap the link in our bio for the full story.

✍️ & 📸: Jeremy D. Goodwin

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