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Andre, Hardground etching and Flat bite on Rives BFK, 2013

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:45:21 -0400

Andre, Hardground etching and Flat bite on Rives BFK, 2013

Assata Shakur, screen print, black glitter and gold ink on Rives...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:30:00 -0400

Assata Shakur, screen print, black glitter and gold ink on Rives BFK. 2013

scanned in some prints from a few months ago

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:16:22 -0400

scanned in some prints from a few months ago

eedyeh: ‘Amazing 9 year old Asean Johnson brings the crowd to...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:04:44 -0400

eedyeh:

‘Amazing 9 year old Asean Johnson brings the crowd to their feet at Chicago school closings rally’

Asean (ah-Shawn) goes to Marcus Garvey Elementary School, slated for closure by the Chicago Public School administration, an un-elected board who’s members are appointed by Mayor Rahm Elmanuel, former Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama

“The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.”

Today i packed up my studio. Getting rid of artwork is always really hard as well as trying to figur...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:25:20 -0400

Today i packed up my studio. Getting rid of artwork is always really hard as well as trying to figur what to keep. A years worth of art packed up in my fathers tiny car. I’ve made so much work this year I forgot about pieces I made. Going backwards and looking at art from the beginning of the semester made me sad. I spent a large chunk of the fall semester making art about people. I try to avoid that because people come and go but art is proof they were once in your life. I kept all of that work I couldn’t throw it away. I am now without studio until September

Sunshinechild 🌻

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:37:34 -0400

Sunshinechild 🌻

Ur photos are great - can u share make n model of ur camera please

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:33:32 -0400

Well all the photos I’ve posted recently are film photos from a disposable camera or my iPhone. I have canon t1i rebel but haven’t used it in months

Moe Brooker, This man right here was my junior professor for...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:29:00 -0400

Moe Brooker,

This man right here was my junior professor for studio, the man everyone told me to fear. When he found out I was going to be his student he asked me if I was afraid and I said yes, he told me there is nothing to be afraid of. The first conversation we ever had, happened in my studio maybe a week or so into the semester. He looked around my studio and said “Who taught you how to paint?, you’re an awful painter” then he proceeded to draw me a chart how to correctly set up a paint pallet. I went home that night and cried. Throughout the year he pushed me towards greatness. He would tell me stories about being a black male/stories about his wife/ his children/ cooking recipes. After a bad critique where I fell apart he grabbed my shoulders and told me I’d be okay and he would handle it. When I started making political work and calling my fellow peers out on their lack of knowledge he pulled me aside while my body still was shaking from anger and told me he was proud of me and that they needed to hear that. Yesterday he looked at me and told me, “you see, bet you didnt think we’d be here”.

I never had a strong male figure in my life and well he became that and I am forever grateful.

Graduation film photos

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:17:55 -0400

Graduation film photos

“If you ever think about me and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:47:19 -0400

“If you ever think about me and you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not going to work for the people. If you’re asked to make a commitment at the age of twenty, and you say I don’t want to make a commitment at the age of twenty, only because of the reason that I’m too young to die, I want to live a little longer, then you’re dead already. You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle then damn it, you don’t deserve to win. Let me say peace to you if you’re willing to fight for it.”- Fred Hampton

I feel as though this sums up my thoughts on graduation. I am proud of being apart of such a strong community of all women artists. I am proud of being one of the few women of color graduating in the class of 2013. I am also proud of the people who I have grown so close with whether it was by choice or by circumstances of such a small intimate college. Now that we have graduated today and we all branch out to our new destinations I feel if you’re not working to better the lives of the people then what are you really doing. In order to grow we can not leave others behind therefore we need to be working on a collective growth. I hope years/decades from now I will still have people from college to call friends and not your average definition of friends that arent really friends just people you know/knew but real ones who are doing amazing things who are motivated/passionate and working towards a greater goal.

Jay xx

Officially a college graduate :D

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:45:30 -0400

Officially a college graduate :D

The man who helped us become great

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:53:50 -0400

The man who helped us become great

My favorite professor y’all moe brooker

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:24:58 -0400

My favorite professor y’all moe brooker

Photo

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:48:24 -0400

black artist in isolation.

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:11:37 -0400

black artist in isolation.

Also got to see this lady, I wish this wasn’t the last...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:51:45 -0400

Also got to see this lady, I wish this wasn’t the last time ill see her for a long time, but I’m grateful for today.

I love this woman lots, until next time xx

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:38:35 -0400

I love this woman lots, until next time xx

#repost yesterday was needed. Amazing cooked dinner, positive...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:57:30 -0400

#repost yesterday was needed. Amazing cooked dinner, positive energy and life affirming conversations with @hanariaz @sarahnicolefrancois

Now that I have time to read again I bought myself a gift

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:49:46 -0400

Now that I have time to read again I bought myself a gift

Spent the day walking around parts of philly and taking pictures...

Thu, 16 May 2013 01:13:00 -0400

Spent the day walking around parts of philly and taking pictures since I’m not sure when/if I will be back after i leave. I’m going to miss seeing simple things like this. Philly has influenced all of my art this year and I wonder what my new environment will cause.