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(re) emerging with new work
curating films (always)
& learning the bees with @sajthefarmer
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Bts urban beekeeping pt. 2

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Bts w/ Urban Beekeepers Saj & Jennè as their last hive inspection of the season gets filmed for an upcoming project

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Grateful to be a participating artist. Opening Reception is on Sept 3rd from 6-8pm!

The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll @angela_n_carroll . On view from August 25 through November 24, the exhibition features artists based in or connected to Baltimore, exploring the city’s cultural landscape through experimental and interdisciplinary practices. The exhibition title is inspired by the narrative poetry of multidisciplinary artist NIA JUNE.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly includes work by Kelvin Bulluck, Roy Crosse, Brianna Faulkner, Darrius Fox, Lehna Huie, Jeffrey Kent, Ada Pinkston, Kim Rice, Margaret Rorison, Ernest Shaw, Shan Wallace, and Jasmine Gabrielle Washington, and the presentation of a filmic work produced by the collective NIA JUNE + Kirby Griffin + APoetNamedNate.

Through serial compositions, photographic triptychs, floating installations, and cinema, the participating artists examine themes of home, memory, and community. The exhibition aims to offer perspective on these themes through the lens of Baltimore’s creative community.

About the Curator

In her curatorial work, Angela N. Carroll has organized exhibitions that examine and celebrate Black identity and community memory, elevating artists and historical narratives in the Upper South. Her latest effort, Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade at the Brandywine Museum of Art is accompanied by a monograph published by Rizzoli New York. As a scholar, Carroll has contributed critical writing to exhibition catalogs published by The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Des Moines Art Center, The Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Nerman MOCA, and the CueArt Foundation, among many others. These writings evidence her significant contribution to contemporary art historical discourse. Carroll intermittently teaches at American University, MICA and UMBC

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“We agitate the waters to transcend the temporal journeys of the diaspora, weaving through time to fortify and renew.”

// A Birth of Remembrance, a Sharayna Ashanti Film

Please join me on June 18 at 7 PM at the SNF Parkway @mdffparkway Theatre for a special screening of my short film, A Birth of Remembrance

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Filmed in St. Croix, A Birth of Remembrance examines spiritual renewal, and ancestral memory illuminated through Obatala. This film is as part of the ongoing Do Not Whisper in My Shadows series a living embodied archive and a site for collective reckoning that uses movement as a pedagogy of memory that invokes the ancestors (Egun) to confront trauma, reclaim spirit, and stir collective healing.

My film will precede a restored screening of Voices of the Gods (1985), the landmark documentary by filmmaker Al Santana.Presented by Luminal Theater @luminaltheater alongside the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), this evening brings together two works that engage the enduring presence of African spiritual traditions, memory, and cultural continuity across the African Diaspora. Thank you to Curator. Jenné Matthews @left_thigh

Director: Sharayna Ashanti Christmas
DP + Editor: Gyasi Mitchell
Colourist + Asst Editor + Sound: @4th.eye.diaries
Drone: @niceshotkyle
Trailer: Sha Shonna Rogers @sheeggo

Cast (in order of appearance):
Sharayna Ashanti Christmas
Nyela Jackson-Davis
Collin Snow Stokes @shelovesnow
Kenneth Morris @kenny.captures
ShaShonna Rogers
Solomon Mercer @_solomonade
Naima Starr @naimastarr
Kyan Burris @moon3ar
Music: Bashi Rose @bashirose Konjur Collective @konjur_collective

Thank you to all my collaborators and the entire @muse.360 / @newgenerationscholars crew
#BirthOfRemembrance #VoicesOfTheGods #BlackCinema

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So much beauty, sweetness & joy in one place. Thank you to the Browns for the opportunity to give you your flowers, and for all you’ve done for Baltimore and beyond 🌸

#ACDreamsinBloom photos by @qntnprsn & @hartbreak

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Community is..

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Double exposed beekeepers mid- hive inspection

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Urban Bee-Keeper @sajthefarmer passing along her knowledge of hive inspections as the Queen bees search for drones in other hives to mate with during this spring

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“Increasingly, the issue is salvation…I want to create works that save our lives.” - Toni Cade Bambara

April 10–11, Muse 360 and partners presented a historic, citywide weekend honoring the life, work, and political imagination of Toni Cade Bambara through dialogue, film, study, and collective practice.

Each offering—across Morgan State University, 360 House, Blue Light Junction, and more—reached capacity! Our community showed up with love and a willingness to be fully present.

Thank you to our partners, collaborators, facilitators, and internal team who carried this weekend from start to finish. The level of care, coordination, and commitment it took to hold these spaces was an act of love. Your labor, intention, and care made this offering possible.

TCB’s charge continues through the community we built, the love we harvested, and the practices we nurtured, all in the name of cultural work.

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a roundup for your evening, please support & share, these asks are very urgent & just because black history month is over, black history year is in full swing!! help change bipoc lives today & if you have any housing resources in North Carolina or Baltimore pls dm me, this is a request on behalf of one of the folks asking for aid!
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shayn also has commissions up for sale again, she just finished a big round of them I'll be sharing on my story tomorrow as well for different styles. digital comms are still available until the 14th of March!
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you can find me on all socials @magikbeanshop for shop releases, tips & tricks for papermaking, mutualaid support, & life updates as I continue to rewild the earth one sheet at a time!
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find my shop where links are found & consider a one time tip or monthly support via my ko-fi storefront at ko-fi.com/magikbeanshop. my tip jar is my uninterrupted gallery, polling space, & blogsite
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all your support means so much to me as i support my family, pursue trans healthcare, & create a more sustainable stationery industry, getting snacks along the way (⁠*⁠´⁠ω⁠｀⁠*⁠)
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#magikbeanshop #mutualaidrequest #blackhistoryyear #bhm #bipocma

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Visibility is not volume.
Measurement is not value.

As 𝑹𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝑪𝒂𝒏’𝒕 𝑴𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 comes to a close, we gather once more in conversation about what was held, what was withheld, and what exceeded language.

Join us next Friday, February 27th for the Closing Reception and Artist Talk moderated by none other than, Jenné Afiya Matthews.

6:30 - 9PM
Gormley Gallery, Fourier Hall 2nd Floor
4701 N Charles St.

No RSVP needed

Come sit amongst what cannot be measured.

Use Your Voice.

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