AAFR Open Studio x Artist Talk
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Open Studio x Artist Talk: Ashara Ekundayo in Conversation with Emory Douglas
Join Artist As First Responder for a midday/First Friday OPEN STUDIO and Artist Talk featuring independent curator Ashara Ekundayo and the former Black Panther Party Minister of Culture Baba Emory Douglas who will be in conversation on the commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party founded in Oakland CA in 1966, and the legacy of Black radical thought through artmaking and achiving in community. This event is part of the NEXUS SF/Bay Area Black Art Week and The BLAC Map Ecosystem Tour.
Open Studio - 11:30am - 2:00pm
Artist Talk - 12:30pm-1:15pm
Minnesota Street Project STUDIOS
1240 Minnesota, San Francisco CA
FREE - Every Body Welcome
RSVP Requested!
Emory Douglas is a renowned political artist and activist whose work has been central to the Black liberation movement since the 1960s. His style has influenced numerous artists over many decades. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1943 and raised in San Francisco, he studied commercial art at City College of San Francisco. Douglas joined the Black Panther Party in 1967, serving as Minister of Culture until the early 1980s. His bold graphic designs defined the visual identity of the Black Panther Newspaper, amplifying the Party’s politics and the voices of the Black community for over 500 issues. Douglas continues to create art that educates, inspires, and mobilizes, staying deeply committed to justice and liberation.Black Panther, The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas published in 2007, provides a comprehensive collection of his posters and graphics from the 1960s through the early 2000s. His work has been collected around the world and can be seen at New York’s Museum of Modern Art as well as many other institutions around the world.
Ashara Ekundayo is a Black feminist cultural theologian with a creative practice rooted in joy-informed pedagogies and the study, creation and exhibition of Black archives. She explores cultural identity, memory, liberation, and place and space through spellcasting, spirituality, architecture, and history as an interdisciplinary independent curator, archivist, arts administrator, and visual maker. She is the founder and Executive Creative Director of the Artist As First Responder collective located in Oakland, CA and Detroit, MI centering the work of artists whose practices heal communities and save lives.
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