Congratulations everyone!
I had the privilege of being a juror this year along with Jennifer Blessing (Curator of Photographs, Guggenheim Museum) and Carl Hazelwood (Independent Curator, co-founder Aljira Contemporary Art Space)
So excited for the artists headed to Woodstock this year! Enjoy your time there and be sure to eat at least one meal and have one iced coffee w/agave and almond milk at the vegan spot — Garden cafe.
ANNOUCEMENT! -May 12th is the last day for the introductory price of Volume II!
After tomorrow, May 12th, we will be raising the price of Mambu Badu Volume II: Open Call to $10. We will also be raising the price of our first issue, Memory, to $5.
Your purchase will fund some special projects we have coming down the pipe that will amplify our mission statement: to find, expose (and most importantly) nurture self-identified women photographers of African descent. Your purchase will also help us maintain organizational costs such as domain renewal, website hosting, and the platform we use to offer online purchases.
Thank you all so much for your continued support!
You should definitely be here! A labor of love for the past 3 months. Co-curating this event has been a pleasure. Come out and support us at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on May 21st @ 6:30pm :)
The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving is an interactive, multi-media dialogue that explores the intersection of experimental art practices and community-based archiving.
The event’s organization is based on the idea of a finding aid. A finding aid is a document used in archives for accessibility and discovery. We will transform a finding aid from an archival inventory/guide into an artistic archival experience.
Our goal for this event is that people leave knowing what an archive and archivist is or can be, and that people feel empowered to begin their own archival/artistic practice or feel moved to engage with existing archives.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 6:30pmSchomburg Center for Research in Black CultureLangston Hughes Auditorium***Joyce-LeeAnn is a writer, archivist and performance artist from Denver, Colorado based in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BA in Writing and Literature from Naropa University via Hampton University. She received a MILS with an Archives Certificate from Pratt Institute. She works as a professional project archivist. Joyce-LeeAnn’s writing explores the poetics of archival processing and investigates ways to tell stories through preserved documents. Subjects covered in her prose | poetry include: grief, healing processes, beautiful moments, writings on restroom walls and a fragment of black Denver history. Her experimental literary performances usually include a makeshift typewriter-drum-kit.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985) is a photo-based artist, writer, and educator from East Palo Alto, CA based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a Gallery/Studio Instructor at the Brooklyn Museum as well as a public school teacher working with court involved youth in East New York. Kameelah’s work enlists archival as well as archeological traditions to explore collective memory and her family narratives through found images from eBay and estate sells, material objects, and original photography. An object-based body of work, she interrogates the trinity of spatial trauma within Black communities — homelessness, incarceration, and forced migration and how this influences both collective memory and the way we reconstruct narratives from material fragments. Currently, she is an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Book Arts. In 2012, Kameelah was an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. She will have her first solo exhibit at Real Art Ways in July 2013 tentatively entitled The Imagined Archive. A former Fulbright Scholar to South Africa, Kameelah received her Master of Education from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Arts in Policy and Africana Studies from Pomona College.
Marilyn Nance is an American visual artist known for her images of 20th century African American life—spirituality, music, art, and African retentions, She grew up through many movements—The Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, Black Arts, Anti War, Students Rights, the Women’s Movement, and the Anti-Apartheid Movement.
A two-time finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography, her photographs can be found in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and in the Library of Congress.
Image © Albert Chong
Arianne Edmonds is a Los Angeles native, storyteller and archivist. Her historical collection spans from 1886-1950 and explores the uniqueness of early black Los Angeles, through the lens of genealogy. She received her Bachelors of Science in Communications, from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and started her career in educational media at Sesame Workshop. She currently works with the Taproot Foundation managing consultant relations and community partnerships.
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Ladi’Sasha Jones is a is a collector and witness worker of oral history narratives with a special interest in documenting Black women’s stories and Black American family life. She approaches her documentation practice by working from the intersections of cultural equity and collective community memory.
Currently, Ladi’Sasha is working on the curation of a public forum to share her collection of oral history records via a digital sound art gallery — coming Summer 2013. Having earned her B.A. in African American Studies from Temple University in 2010 and a M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2012, she recently completed a Certificate in Oral History from Baylor University in April of 2013. She aims to move towards freelancing and sharing her documenting services with community and cultural arts organizations along with individual artists.
Shawn(ta) Smith is a lesbian separatist, writer, archivist and reference librarian. Her essays blend storytelling with documentation and archiving. Her work will appear in “Black Gay Genius Interview with Lisa C. Moore” in Black Gay Genius: Joseph Beam and In the Life (forthcoming). She is currently editing a new anthology Her Saturn Returns: Queer Women of Color Life Transitions, a compilation of narratives of queer women and color in their Saturn. Shawn is a collective member of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and the WOW Cafe Theater where she co-produces Rivers of Honey, a monthly Cabaret highlighting the art of women of color. Shawn is pursuing her MFA in Fiction at Queens College while working as a reference & instruction librarian at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the former Archive Coordinator for StoryCorps.
// hersaturnreturns.com // riversofhoney.com
Photo © Arianne Benford
Sonia Louise Davis (b. 1988, New York City) is an artist and photographer. Using a large format view camera, her work mines the public and private archive, exploring collective memory and family history through site-specific and community-based projects. Sonia is currently participating in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. An honors graduate of Wesleyan University, she holds a BA in African American Studies, with a concentration in Music and Visual Art.
Born in Las Vegas, Salome Asega is an Ethiopian visual artist and independent curator working in Brooklyn. She received her BA in Transnational Visual Art and Social Practice from the Gallatin School at NYU and is currently an MFA candidate in the Design and Technology program at Parsons The New School for Design. She is also a founding member of theSistah Friends Project.
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Mambu Badu’s own Kameelah Rasheed co-curated this event, which also features Sonia Louise Davis, whose work appeared in Volume 2 of Mambu Badu magazine. If you live in NYC, you should definitely support this event!
MoCADA Call for Artist Submissions // Deadline: Rolling
MoCADA is committed to giving emerging, mid-career and established artists the opportunity to expand their portfolios and develop a relationship with the museum. In over 10 years, MoCADA has collected hundreds of artist submissions from working artists throughout Africa and the Diaspora.
Artist submissions are cataloged digitally and kept on file at the museum. As curators are selected to develop projects for MoCADA’s Main Gallery and Satellite Exhibitions, they are invited to browse the artist submission files. If we are interested in including you in an exhibition, you will be contacted. We encourage you to submit regularly to keep you file up-to-date with new work.
Artists should thoroughly familiarize themselves with the museum’s mission before submitting. All submissions must adhere to the outlined requirements. Should you have any questions please email us at submit@mocada.org.
Welcome to MoCADA’s growing community of artists!
Submission Guidelines
Artists are encouraged to submit work in any and all media
MoCADA strongly prefers to accept applications electronically. Please fill out the form linked to below, and send the additional materials to submit@mocada.org. Should you need to make arrangements otherwise, please contact us
If MoCADA is interested in exhibiting your work, you will be notified by email
Complete applications will be acknowledged by an email. Incomplete packages will not be reviewed
There are no deadlines. We are happy to accept submissions at any time.
Submission Requirements
Artist Submission Form: Electronic Form
Resume or CV: Exhibitions, education and awards. No more than 3 pages. Resume/CV should be labeled: lastname_firstname_resume.pdf
Artist Statement: Brief and concise, ideas about work and approach to process. No more than 1 page. Statement should be labeled: lastname_firstname_statement.pdf
Images: 5 to 10 images of your work. All images must be jpegs in a zipped file of no more than 10MB. All images should be clearly labeled: lastname_firstname_imagenumber.jpeg. Zip file should be named: lastname_firstname_images.zip
Image Inventory List: List of images by number that includes artist name, name of work, medium, dimensions, and date. Inventory list should be labeled: lastname_firstname_inventorylist.pdf
Please email Resume/CV, Statement, Images and Image Inventory List to submit@mocada.org.
UPDATES- Baang + Burne Contemporary New Work Grant
One of the founding mission of Baang + Burne is to help artists. At the beginning of the year, we offered up a $2500 cash grant, wanting to help artists make new works. Except the emails we kept on getting are artists looking for representation and exhibit opportunities.
We’ve been listening and we’ve made changes based on your feedback.
You can now either submit for the cash grant to create new works OR you can submit your work for a spot on our roster and exhibit opportunities in 2014-15.
In fairness, all grant submissions we received up to this point will strictly be considered for the cash grant. You can submit for EITHER representation OR $2500 cash grant but not both. Please note your choice in the first line of your proposal / statement.
Baang + Burne Contemporary New Works Grant / Open Call for Artists 2013 is open to all visual artists of all mediums. The grant is a $2,500 cash award that recognizes the strongest new proposal in contemporary art as submitted. Representation on the gallery roster is a two year non-exclusive contract and you will join a prestigious roster of contemporary artists at exhibits and art fairs.
Show us what you have been working on in the studio and tinkering with in your mind.
Deadline: EXTENDED Midnight EST on July 15, 2013
Eligibility: Open to all artists age 18+. If submitting for representation, all artwork must but be available for sale.
For Grant:
Images: 5-10 images of either the proposed project in process, prelim sketches, location scout shots, and etc.
Describe the project in 500 words or less
CV
BIO
When does this project start?
Estimate completion date for the project?
Provide a detailed list of expenses. (Ex. Printing: $1,500, Film: $500, Hotel: $99/night, etc.)
For Representation:
Images: 10 images of a complete body of work.
CV
BIO
500 word artist statement
Application Fee: $35 paid via CAFÉ
Application Procedure: All submissions must go through CallForEntry.org (CAFÉ).
Note: Under no circumstances will we consider incomplete applications. Our 10 finalists will be highlighted on our blog (www.baangandburne.com/blog)
The third edition of (e)merge takes place October 3-6, 2013 at the Rubell Family’s Capitol Skyline Hotel, in Washington, DC.
The (e)merge art fair connects emerging-art professionals from around the globe with collectors, curators and cultural decision makers in Washington, DC.
The GALLERY PLATFORM features participating galleries in hotel rooms on designated floors. The ARTIST PLATFORM features a vetted selection of works by unrepresented artists throughout the hotel’s public areas and grounds. (e)merge’s two exhibition platforms inspire a new echelon of art collectors and provide curatorial access to the latest movements in emerging art.
ARTIST PLATFORM APPLICATION (CLICK HERE)
The Artist Platform application deadline is May 18, 2013 and notifications will be sent out in June 2013.
DOWNLOAD ARTIST PROSPECTUS: (CLICK HERE)
Artists wishing to apply must be currently unrepresented by a gallery and may not have had SOLO exhibition at a major museum or Kunsthalle. Artists will be provided with exhibition space free of charge in public areas throughout the Capitol Skyline including: outdoor lawn, ramps, fences, lobby, hallways, lounge, pool deck, restaurant, banquet halls and parking garage. All submissions will be reviewed by an international vetting committee.
All applicants are required to submit the following information as part of the application:
a) a one page project description being proposed for exhibition at (e)merge
b) a preparatory drawing, diagram, photographic image or mock-up of the project proposed as you would envision it in a general exhibition setting.
c) five (5) images of artist’s work
d) bio / CV including City and State/Province and Country of Residence
Making Pictures of People — On Current Portraiture | A collaboration with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | FlakPhoto.comMaking Pictures of People — On Current Portraiture
A collaboration with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Hello All, Touching base about a new Flak Photo project…For the past seven years, I have promoted contemporary image-makers and archived their work in The Flak Photo Collection.
Last year, our team partnered with the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design to produce Looking at the Land — 21st Century American Views, a presentation of landscape images that aimed to expand the ideas of photographic publication and exhibition.
Today I’m excited to announce a new collaboration. In August 2013 curators April M. Watson and Jane Aspinwall will launch About Face, an exhibition of current portraiture at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
They’ve invited me to curate a complementary show that highlights voices from within the online photo community. As with Looking at the Land, I’ll make selections from websites across the Internet. My aim is simple — to highlight compelling portrait photography produced since 2000. SUBMIT All are welcome to submit images for consideration by emailing portfolio links for review via the submission form. (You may submit more than one portfolio for consideration.) There is no entry fee or formal deadline. I’d love more people to hear about this; please share my call with photographers who would be interested in contributing.Making Pictures of People will be presented digitally in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri as well as online for public audiences worldwide. I’ll be posting project updates here and on my Facebook Timeline in the coming weeks. Thanks in advance for making time to share your work with me and for understanding that I’m not able to respond to each submission individually. I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
Best, Andy Adams
Editor • Producer • Publisher
FlakPhoto.com
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“Lorna & Carrie Mae & Wangechi & Mickalene & Kara.” T-shirt designed by Aiesha Turman. (Proceeds fund Turman’s film The Black Girl Project.)
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“My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that’s a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter voice has sometimes the more interesting idea, if I can get to it.”
—Mark BradfordMark Bradford, our current 100 Artists featured artist, is seen here in his Los Angeles studio at work on his 2006 piece, Ridin’ Dirty. This scene is featured in the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 4 episode, Paradox (2007).
WATCH: Mark Bradford in Paradox [available in the U.S. only] | Additional videos
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Fascinating installment of Art21. Be sure to watch the full episode; some really keen insights are there. - DS
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