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Aquarius Season! Love is so good! Thank you Arkansas, NYC, LA, Philly!

98 years ago today an Angel was born in America. Her name is Ruth Ellen Willis and that’s the truth! 💫🌈

Meanwhile... Hankomania and Dr. Know try to chill out. How do we look?! Relaxed??!

“An all colored cast”, 2020 features 36 of Hollywood’s finest stars who navigated and in some cases overcame the color line that relegated them and their peers to the periphery of societies most popular narratives. I am was inspired by #warhol screen tests and especially “Ethel Scull 36 Times”, 1963. It was so humbling to have @mahershalaali @peacegina @themichaelealy stand under the glowing portrait for #harrybelafonte . It felt like the past, present and future were connecting in the space time continuum. I also spy the star of my life photobombing 😄🙏🏾 #anallcoloredcast

The harmony of color "C'est si bon" (Le Harmonie del Colore) (variation without flash), When Phillip Yordan wrote the play Anna Lucasta, it was about a spectacularly dysfunctional Polish family, but he was unable to find a producer. So in 1944 he gave the production rights to the American Negro Theatre Company, which reconceived it as a domestic drama about a black family. Because it was originally produced by the American Negro Theatre Company in Harlem, its mission was to "to break down the barriers of black participation in the theater; to portray Negro life as they honestly saw it; to fill in the gap of a black theater which did not exist." Anna Lucasta was adapted for film in 1958, with #earthakitt and #SammyDavisJr. in the leading roles. The images is embedded into one of Augusto Garau's tertiary contrast illustrations In Color Harmonies, #AugustoGarau systematically investigates the role of both color and form in visual perception and presents an original theory of the aesthetic relations among colors. #colortheory #anallcoloredcast @kaynegriffincorcoran

"People just like to look at me" (Spectrum IX) ​(variation with flash), 2019 . "People just like to look at me" (Spectrum IX) draws upon #EllsworthKelly’s 1967 painting Spectrum IX. Like Kelly’s spectrum, Thomas’ work is composed of color panels beginning and ending with yellow and working through the color wheel in between. Printed on each of the panels is a hidden portrait of an early Hollywood starlet. The viewer must activate the work in order to see the images at all, suggesting the relative invisibility of these women, even despite their fame. #earthakitt, #DorothyDandridge, #Aquanetta, #diahanncarroll, #LenaHorne, #JuanitaMoore, #HattieMcDaniel, #LouiseBeavers, #FrediWashington, #RubyDee, #PearlBailey, and #SheilaGuyse appear side by side. When a camera light is flashed, it reveals each starlet looking ready for the spotlight. The work explores the aesthetic value of Kelly’s spectrum, he also draws attention to color as it relates to race and asks us to look back at the history of diversity in early American film. Through an exploration of color in its purest form, Thomas is invested in examining the portrayals of gender, race, and identity through the lens of film, performance, fame, and technicolor. The title of the work is derived from a quote by Hollywood actress, singer, and dancer Dorothy Dandridge, who is featured among the other women in the work. When discussing her rise to fame, she says “Somehow, people just like to look at me.” So honored to have my first solo show “An all colored cast” @kaynegriffincorcoran I’ve learned so much through this incredible experience. Thank you @swatson43 @helenboo0 @wilsyl @mbkayne @cobykennedy @adameast @debwillisphoto @hank_thomas_1 @_d_takahashi @justinbriceguariglia @chris.berntsen @rjkhckly @rashidjohnson and Blake and Aliya!

Real Sheroes wear capeletes! Getting ready for the road #trinidadcarnival2020 ! Congrats @anyaayoungchee @sarilynnda @wyldflwr_ @wideawakes2020 !! 🇹🇹🇺🇸🙌🏾🙌🏿 @burningman

Team work makes the dream work. Zenzi at 1!

Happy Birthday Mommy!! Thank you so much for shining your little light on the world! We’re gonna let it shine!! Let it shine!!

“The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.” - Norman Rockwell. Happy birthday to Norman Rockwell who would be 126 today. Rockwell was one of the people who really shaped the iconography or America and our visual culture. This image comes from @forfreedoms reimagining of Rockwell’s Freedom from Fear to include stories and perspectives that reflect our current moment. — Cover image: “Freedom from Fear”, 2018. Courtesy @emilyshur @wyattgallery @ericgottesman for @forfreedoms #blackhistorymonth #normanrockwell #forfreedoms #fourfreedoms #freedomfromfear

Cheers to life @rjkhckly ! My life was forever altered when Songha was killed 20 years ago today. It’s more than a coincidence that two of the most important people in my life share this date. 02/02/2000 - 02/02/2020 has been such a challenging and beautiful chapter in my life. I used to refer to today as my day of infamy. Thanks to the love you and others have shown me, I can now think of it as my emancipation day. Thank you for being so free black & white in living colour. Your parents new what they were doing when the named you Radiance in your mother tongue. Zenzi is as lucky to have you as we are her. You got that glow. “When you got the glow, you feel the one, When you got the glow, Your body's gold, So don't let go, of the power of elevation.” #namethattune #happybirthday #infiniteplay #carnival 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇹🇹🇿🇼

Carter Godwin Woodson was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He was one of the first scholars to study African-American history. In February 1926 he launched the celebration of "Negro History Week", the precursor of Black History Month. He worked to preserve the history of African Americans and accumulated a collection of thousands of artifacts and publications. He noted that African-American contributions "were overlooked, ignored, and even suppressed by the writers of history textbooks and the teachers who use them." Race prejudice, he concluded, "is merely the logical result of tradition, the inevitable outcome of thorough instruction to the effect that the Negro has never contributed anything to the progress of mankind.” #Aquarius #FrederickDouglass #abrahamlincoln #cartergwoodson #blackhistorymonth #dukesofhazzard #anallcoloredcast @kaynegriffincorcoran @bereacollege #bereacollege

@naimaramchap @sundanceorg @forfreedoms

Three reasons to smile! @debwillisphoto @annamariahorsford @rjkhckly @kaynegriffincorcoran

“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” - Martin Luther King Jr. 📷 on the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery,AL on March 25th 1965 📷 #spidermartin hand made mirror collage by Hwt studio. #makeamericagreatagain #mlkday

I AM MANY. LOVE OVER RULES. I AM AMEN.

Could it get any better?!!!! 👀❤️😎😆☝🏿

Sliding into #2020 like...

Imani = Faith. "To believe, with all our heart, in our Creator, our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle." #kwanzaa #imani

Kuumba (Creativity) To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Thank you @wangechistudio @rashidjohnson @sanfordbiggers @mickalenethomas @racquelchevremont @theastergates @toyinojihodutola @carriemaeweems @kehindewiley @pendleton.adam 🙏🏾 #kwanzaa #kuumba

NIA! The principle of Nia means to commit ourselves to the glorious duty of restoring our families, our neighborhoods, and our people to their historical greatness. The family and community are the principal context for human development. @portlandartmuseum pair me with brilliant photographer @intisarabioto for outdoor installation @regionalarts ! I spy @omar_viktor and @mdlulisame #kwanzaa #nia

Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together. Let’s work earthlings! 💶💷💵💴💸. What if money had wings? Where would it go? How would if flock?

Ujima (oo-JEE-mah) Collective Work & Responsibility. "To build and maintain our community together and to make our Brother's and sister's problems, our problems and to solve them together. An injury to one is an injury to all! We have had enough. Learning from the movements of the past with a vision of the future.

Kujichagulia means Self-Determination. (I’ll leave you to pronounce it.)

Umoja = Unity #kwanzaa

Feels so good to be loved!! Thanks fam!! #everybodylovesthesunshine

Song For My Father. #itsawonderfullife #loveoverrules #horacesilver

“Remember no man is a failure who has friends.” #itsawonderfullife

Ruthie at 98. She told me “I’m trying to make 100. This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24.

Learn, Baby, Learn (multi on black), 2019 @gordonparksfoundation

“... a boy doesn’t stay a boy for very long” 2019 from Exodusters exhibition @gordonparksfoundation .

Looking For America, 2019 @jackshainman #punctumseries

Society of the Spectacle (Spectrum IV), 2019 @kaynegriffincorcoran

I got so much love for Miami where I had so many firsts! Its amazing to see both versions of #allpowertoallpeople in the same city! thanks to @diasporavibe @kindred_arts @opalockaart @arshtcenter @roosterharlem @jeffschomberg @jay_jonah_jacko @sarilynnda @wilsyl @helenboo0 @samigiarra @cobykennedy @burningman and basically the whole world of people that have shed light on me and my ideas. Much love y’all.

So excited about @forfreedoms @blackpuffin.co booth A24 @untitledartfair with 3 incredible artists! @cas_amandaa @modoudieng @cristinaleirodriguez curated by @michelinwoo & moi! ☝🏿

Raise up, 2018

@forfreedoms We're continuing to reimagine the conventions of art, advertising, and politics. Our latest collaboration in Cleveland, OH with the @guardian_us and @iadking of @shootingwithoutbullets highlights topics that don’t get nearly enough attention: redlining, racial inaccessibility of the arts, gender oppression, state sanctioned violence, and the transformative power of prayer. Thank you to our collaborating artists: @ambern.ford, @matthew_chasney, @poofydustcloud, and @cinehypofilms

#staygolden

Time will tell the story of this work but for now it is Front Page News @nytimes !

Unity, 2019 Today we installed my first permanent public art sculpture in the city I’m from! It’s at the intersection of Tillary & Adams at the end of the Brooklyn Bridge. So epic and surreal. I’m so honored and humbled to see this dream become a reality. I’m truly grateful to all of the incredible people who made this piece of reality through so many years of hard work and collaboration! ☝🏿

We Are For Freedoms. October 26, 2019 through March 1, 2020. For Freedoms will be working with The Currier Museum to engage the community and speak about the key role art can play in creating a more civically minded public. To continue the connection between visitors, For Freedoms, and The Currier Museum, they will be hosting Town Hall discussions January 20th & February 6th of 2020! If you are in the area please join the conversation! @forfreedoms @curriermuseum #CurrierMuseum #townhall #citizenship #naturalizationceremony #forfreedoms #fourfreedoms

Thank you to all who have come to see #TheWritingOnTheWall on the @highlineartnyc 14th st overpass. It will be closing this weekend but is a traveling installation so hopefully you can catch it at its next stop in Atlanta! The words of the incarcerated—handwritten and typed—are a moving testament to the often ignored humanity of those in prison. This would absolutely not be possible without the amazing work of @incarcerationnations @bazdreisinger @opnbx @massdesigngroup @highlineartnyc @chemistrycreative @manuelsmiranda @samigiarra @helenboo0 @wilsyl and of course the many participants including @devonp2cp and @firesigndesign_productions around the world who contributed to making this a reality.

THEY ARE US / US IS THEM. So excited to have another @forfreedoms installation near the Brooklyn Navy Yards. Many thanks to @agger_marc for this opportunity! ❤️💙❤️💙

@dreadscottart ‘s @slaverebellion is finally here! A great team of people in New Orleans and beyond is working hard on all fronts. In final rehearsals recently members of the Army of the Enslaved have had emotional conversations about race, racism, and the feeling of empowerment that being a reenactor is giving them. SRR is bringing to life an episode in American history long hidden from conventional accounts. The performance involves hundreds of reenactors marching for 26 miles over two days. #SlaveRebellionReenactment will reenact the German Coast Uprising, the largest revolt of enslaved people in United States history, starting upriver from New Orleans. Hundreds of local residents, each dressed in 19th-century French colonial garments, flags and banners flying, are coming together to form the Army of the Enslaved. Our two-day march through communities, beside former slave labor camps (a.k.a. plantations) and the toxic chemical plants that have replaced them, will be a gesture of historical resistance. There's still time to sign up to participate, volunteer to assist, or just come watch and witness! Slave Rebellion Reenactment will begin Friday November 8th in the morning and will arrive in Congo Square at 4pm, Saturday November 9th.

🙏🏾 @incarcerationations @highlineartnyc

I am so excited to announce that #TheWritingOnTheWall opens tomorrow on the @highlineartnyc 14th st overpass. This installation is composed of essays, poems, letters, stories, diagrams, drawings, and notes written by individuals in prison around the world. The handwritten and typed pieces were accrued by my dear friend and collaborator @bazdreisinger during her years teaching in the US and international prisons. The words of the incarcerated—handwritten and typed—are a moving testament to the often ignored humanity of those in prison. This would absolutely not be possible without the amazing work of @incarcerationnations @bazdreisinger @opnbx @massdesigngroup @highlineartnyc @chemistrycreative @manuelsmiranda @samigiarra @helenboo0 @wilsyl and of course the many participants including @devonp2cp and @firesigndesign_productions around the world who contributed to making this a reality.

We The People, 2015 A maze made with used prison uniforms. On display @portlandartmuseum #allthingsbeingequal #landofthefree

14,719 (2018), 2019 Embroidered fabric panels Suspended in a double circle rising thirty feet above the floor, sixteen banners contain 14,719 stars. Each star represents a person shot and killed by someone else in the United States in 2018. I believe every person has a 'day of infamy' in his or her life. Mine is Tuesday, February 2, 2000. This was the day I lost Songha Thomas Willis, my cousin, roommate, best friend, and for all intents and purposes, big brother. He was shot dead, execution-style, in front of dozens of people during a robbery in which he did not resist. That day of infamy was a day of horror but it was also a day of redefinition. The word 'art' means something different to me now. It offers a little bit of hope for answers, or at least poses better questions. I have struggled for two decades to find creative ways to deal with my cousin's murder and the larger fascination with guns in our society. There have been more than 200,000 people killed by guns in the country since my family lost Songha. It is impossible to measure the magnitude and impact of this societal loss. While this installation is a memorial to the thousands of people who were killed by guns in 2018, it also pays homage to the countless loved ones who carry perpetual grief and trauma as unacknowledged victims of gun violence in America.

Harriet & Annie, 2018 🗯 📷 @joeonna

I’m honored and very excited to be opening EXODUSTERS tomorrow at @gordonparksfoundation ! It examines the representation and depiction of history, particularly at a significant moment in the pursuit of freedom and liberty during the Great Depression in Dust Bowl America. Drawn from the archive of Gordon Parks’ seminal 1969 motion picture #TheLearningTree fifty years after it was released. The movie, an adaptation of Parks’ 1963 semiautobiographical novel. The Learning Tree was the first major Hollywood studio film written and directed by an African American. #gordonparks was a mentor to @debwillisphoto & paved the way for so many of us in so many ways. 🙏🏾 Exodusters is drawn from the term inspired by Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, a former slave from Tennessee who had escaped the state and then returned after the Civil War. As discussed by the historian Nell Irvin Painter in her formative book #Exodusters, the word describes a group of individuals who shared a similar dream of helping fellow former slaves find refuge and true freedom. The Learning Tree provided a platform for freedom by amplifying voices outside the mainstream film industry and close to Parks’ hometown roots, and depicting the era’s socioeconomic and political tensions for a larger Hollywood audience. I’m so grateful to @peterkunhardt for his support on this.