Besides educating ourselves on anti-racism and what that means in action and educating ourselves about the actual and true history of this country, we can and should help by handing our money to black artists and crafters beyond just the big names like Beyonce.
So here is a great list of black owned Etsy shops. Over one hundred of them!
Here’s a list of black American women fine artists. Do you know any of them?
And here’s a list of black American women writers. Have you read any of these? I have not…
This is a list of contemporary women of color poets.
Black contemporary choreographers (with internal links).
And this video under 2 minutes has my head full of ideas:
Choreographer and dancer taisha paggett talked with us about her artistic practice and the ways in which her art grapples with public life and what she describes as the “political landscape of being.” Paggett told us, “I started making work to understand and maybe even reinvent how I move through the world and how…bodies on the margins move through the world.” Hear more in the video below.
taisha paggett is a Los Angeles-based artist whose individual and collaborative work for the stage, gallery, and public space takes up questions of the body, agency, and the phenomenology of race and gender. Her work has been presented in the 2017 Center-funded project "Endless Shout" at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Danspace Project, among others.
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