Today I ran into Chris for the first time. It was exciting to happen upon him. We agreed to set a time to really sit and meet each other. Our exchange included very sincere admiration for each other's works, web sites, backgrounds and hall ways Residency displays.
Then immediately there was Kate. How. She is the Executive Director extraodinaire for the Hyde Park Art Center. She along with the ever-awesome Allison have been to of the most positive resourceful keeping their words and peace admin folks I have every had the energizing pleasure to work with.
OPPS? Did I just call it work. NOT! Better to call it a creative productive flow. When I was wilting on the vine at times under the rigor and brutal pounding of the Chicago Public Schools system's anti-art-bias as an Art Educator, they, Allison & Kate gave me and my Rhythmistic practice magical...powerful...open ...meaningful moments. Shared at time with my students. Other times with the Black Age of Comics movement....and then my very successful "Cool Globes" project. Truth be told in real time....this is what progress looks like.
Once
upon an air-brush, way back in the pre-digital age, I was asked to
paint this huge backdrop that looked like a Martian landscape. It was
for a major marketing campaign from the largest Black owned advertising
agency of that era. The models were placed on the painted fabric and
photographed to look as it they were having a pre-afrofuture out of this
world experience on Mars.......after having a taste of blended whiskey.
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