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My suit brown like my people

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highest depths and lowest skies; the sea and stars are written within me and mines.

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Yall done gave a hood nigga hope
#4soloexhibitsat22

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The Way, the Truth, the Light

A solo exhibition by Khalil McFarlane @khalilmcf

CLOSING:
THIS FRIDAY, September 11th | 5-8 PM
225 Holliday Street
Baltimore, MD | 21202
The Peale Museum

The words of our artist Khalil,

“In a world that seeks to destroy Black bodies, our children hold onto a light that refuses to be extinguished. Through their existence, they reaffirm our belief in a future sustained by a collective continued perseverance.

The Way, the Truth, and the Light examines the intergenerational experiences shaping Black youthhood. Through memory, imagination, and shared history, this body of work reflects the ways Black children inherit resilience, culture, joy, and possibility.
“the Way” speaks to the paths forged by previous generations,
“the Truth” to the lived realities that continue to shape identity, and “the Light” to the everlasting Black spirit that exists within every Black child. Together, these works affirm that Black youth are not only products of this configured reality, but the cultivators of the future.”

COME BE PRESENT IN THE SPACE ‼️‼️

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grateful to make this short video for you & the show for you dear friend

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THIS is what the New Age of Poetry looks like🗣️💜

Last mic with BCYPT was impossible to miss. Coming home from national slam Brave New Voices, these poets clearly still had some heat to let off!! Thank you @dewmorepoetry and @officialblackartsdistrict for uplifting these voices.

Coming up next we're back in DC! Meet us at the legendary Sankofa every 2nd Wednesday starting now. Free entry, food available for purchase, all art forms welcome.

And don't miss New Age vs. Charm City Slam right after!! ⚔️

📸 @sandman.psd

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my jumbled thoughts put down on paper with color and lines and pencil and pen and whatever else

this was a journal that I had made, stitched and bound by hand, for 2024. the cover is a brown crocodile skin embossed faux leather with a spider that I engraved in it. spiders have always been good luck for me, being a weaver that can catch its own abundance, never getting lost in its web. an awareness like prescience. the number 8, playing a larger significance for the yield of that season for me.

wanted to share more of my inner/ outer world! so just some quick highlights for now. I’m curious though, if you guys would like to see more specific details of this journal, or want to see other ones ivve made!

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Mr. Make it Happen
58 in. x 68 in.
C. 2026

Acrylic and oil paint on unstretched canvas.

A father and his children’s bond extends beyond the barriers of life and death. A true love story. I know so many stand up men, niggas who have the ambition and audacity to make a way, any way, for their children to grow in a cold world. The struggle breeds a certain kind of man. One capable of using every ounce of life in their often frail, nourishment-lacking body to dedicate their well-being to the HUSTLE. Making a way. Showing up in the present, battling against the pressures of a society built on damaging bodies like his own.

What I love about this piece is how Baltimore it is. Some overly Baltimore shit. I love my people yo. A certain swag, flyness that’s undeniable!! I really love how this piece mirrors a mural that could be seen outside in the city. The Black imagination is so vast. One thing about it, we’re going to make a way. Shoutout to my father for being Mr. Make it Happen, doing what he can with what he has access to. Five boys, and he still made a way, flaws and all.

This song reminds me of a time when it was the ringtone for our house phone. I used to be so scared of it because it made me think of death, specifically the death of Mr. Make it Happen.

Black men, keep striving to be Mr. Make it Happen. It’s no ifs, ands, or buts. We have to.

Thank you to everyone who’s sat and resonated with this piece. I always wanted this piece to bs the piece to represent Today’s Supper. The Black Sun, with its black ass nose and lips, will forever reign over all. Please examine the whole carousel.

Also, if you know the people featured in the TikTok reference video, please tag or send me an @.

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Wondering how to turn your creativity into a passion… or degree? Meet INDS Alumni: @thaliaanora for the Arts & Entrepreneurship Q&A Panel.Thalia has redefined what it means to be an Artist Entrepreneur. Click the Link in Our Bio to RSVP and to learn about Thalia’s INDS Degree Path. 🎨🚀

✨ When: April 6, 2026 12pm-1pm ✨ Where: UMBC Fine Arts 107

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Last semester’s WITHOUT FEAR exhibition was truly something special 🤍

Thank you to every artist who submitted their work, every person who came out to support, and everyone who helped bring the gallery to life. Your creativity, vulnerability, and energy made it all unforgettable.

We’re so grateful for this community, and we can’t wait to do it again.

Join us this semester for From the Madness

#artgallery #studentorg #umbc #artexhibitions #baltimore

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See world, I’m no rookie. I do this shit

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Ate, Tabi Tayo Diptych
Baltimore, 2024
Archival print on Lustre
40 x 28
Pandarayuhan: Home is a Memory

With the beautiful Anora sisters. Assisted by the talented @daniphotolopez.
Can’t remember if this was Portra 400 or Kodak Gold 200+1 lol. Not much to say about it other than I didn’t have my own bed til 15, didn’t have my own room til 18. We always shared the same bed. We always shared the same limbs. The exhibition image is saturated but the original and print is much softer.

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STFU Pt. 1 (See The Future Unfold)

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