Broadway Dallas has declared they will host Black Art Issues Talks: Exhibit Fairness, an artist discussion with the showcased artists of the organization’s community exhibition, South Dallas Stories: Honest Park Uprooted. The function will consider location on Monday, February 27 at 5:30 p.m. at the New music Hall at Honest Park, and is open to the community no cost of charge. The artist lineup involves Inyang Essien, Jennifer Monet Cowley, and Nitashia Johnson, with distinctive guest moderator Daisha Board of the award-profitable Daisha Board Gallery. The dialogue will center all over each artist’s contribution to the exhibit and their unique do the job as Black girls in the artistic and visual arts.
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About Inyang Essien
Inyang Essien is a Nigerian American photographer and visible artist from Dallas, TX. Her get the job done is dependent in images, cultural textiles, online video installations, and generative art to examine id via culture, sexuality, and individual transformation.
In 2021, Essien was the recipient of a Nasher Artist Grant and Cedars Union Art & Equity Scholarship as effectively as a happy participant in the inaugural cohort of the Juanita J. Craft Residency which aims to contribute to the cultural and creative effect of the South Dallas local community.
She is passionate about creatively sharing the lived activities of Black persons across the diaspora.
About Jennifer Monet Cowley
Jennifer Monet Cowley is a visible artist, curator, vogue designer, and educator. She has been painting and drawing considering the fact that the age of 5. In superior university, she researched trend structure and commercial art. On coming into university, she initially majored in architecture, but her love for artwork prevailed and she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Diploma in Artwork and Performance from the College of Texas at Dallas in 1993.
Jennifer works in various mediums: colored pencils, pastels, gouache, acrylic, and watercolors. Jennifer also layouts and paints wearable art. She has also curated groundbreaking art demonstrates and exhibitions. She has been advised that her curatorial concepts are groundbreaking and can rival some of the most effective in the planet. Jennifer is an artist whose flexibility and abilities have empowered her to generate exclusive works that specific her distinctive fashion and voice.
About Nitashia Johnson
Nitashia Johnson is a Nigerian American, multimedia artist and educator from Dallas, Texas, who certainly has a passion for developing. She attended Booker T. Washington Significant College for the Carrying out and Visible Arts. She is an alumnus of Texas Woman’s University (BFA) and the Rhode Island College of Style (MAT). She will work as a digital media specialist and freelance designer, photographer, videographer, and artistic educator. Her tasks consist of “The Sensible Project,” a innovative youth software, “The Self Publication,” portrait-based mostly reflective book collection, and “The Natural beauty of South Dallas” photographic neighborhood project.
In 2019, Johnson turned a person of the to start with women selected for the Sony Alpha Woman Creator-in-Home method. In 2021, she grew to become an inaugural receiver of the Juanita J. Craft Household Artist Residency job and took portion in the Talley Dunn Gallery Equity in the Arts Fellowship. In 2021, Johnson obtained the Artist Disruptor Award from The Middle for Cultural Ability.
About Daisha Board
DAISHA BOARD GALLERY est. 2022, is a modern day artwork gallery symbolizing rising BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and artists with disabilities in Dallas, Texas and through the United States. Daisha Board Gallery will work in various mediums together with painting, sculpture, images, overall performance art and electronic media. In 2017 Daisha Board started Black Sheep Artwork Society Inc., to make sure representation of marginalized artists and advocate for increased visibility for BIPOC artists in traditional and non-common artwork spaces.
Daisha Board Gallery is the 1st Black Woman Owned Present-day Artwork Gallery in Dallas in more than 30 a long time. Voted Most effective Art GALLERY IN DALLAS by D Journal 2022.
Daisha Board has curated for The Town of Dallas, Artspace111, Dallas Mavericks, Goldman Sachs, Fort Worth Art Reasonable, Prizm Art Good, 500X, Oak Cliff Cultural Centre, Latino Cultural Centre, Moody Efficiency Corridor, South Dallas Cultural Centre, Bath Property, Booker T. Washington Large School, West Edge Design and style Truthful, Denton Black Movie Festival, and the African American Museum of Dallas.
About South Dallas Stories: Honest Park Uprooted
On January 5, 2023, the 60th Anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s take a look at to the Audio Hall at Good Park, Broadway Dallas unveiled its first public exhibition, South Dallas Stories: Truthful Park Uprooted, commemorating the vivid while problematic background of Fair Park/South Dallas and its neighborhood customers. Centered on real truth-telling and narrative change, the exhibit sheds light-weight on the evolution of Good Park/South Dallas and is intended to expose all who take a look at the Tunes Corridor to the part that racism played in the growth of the Fair Park/South Dallas neighborhood.
South Dallas Tales: Honest Park Uprooted is generously underwritten by The Addy Basis.
Found within the entrance lobby of the Tunes Corridor at Good Park, South Dallas Tales: Fair Park Uprooted capabilities tales from some of the neighborhood’s most devoted citizens, historic artifacts, and memorabilia. The exhibit is introduced in a wide range of media kinds, and each individual 6 months elements of the show will modify resulting in a rotation of information for visitors to expertise.
South Dallas Tales: Reasonable Park Uprooted is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and through performances at the Songs Hall at Fair Park.
Exhibit contributors involve Daisha Board Gallery, Inyang Essien, Nitashia Johnson, Jennifer Monet Cowley, Jodi Voice-Yellowfish, Lucy Cain, Dr. Marta M. Torres, Stuart Williams, Marilyn Clark, The Honorable Diane Ragsdale, Dallas General public Library- Lens on Dallas, Forest Forward, FGIII Wonderful Artwork Productions, and Soul Rep Theatre Business.
About Broadway Dallas
In 2022, Dallas Summer time Musicals adjusted its identify to Broadway Dallas. Since 1941, the non-gain Broadway Dallas has offered the Very best of Broadway to North Texas audiences. Located in the historic New music Hall at Fair Park, Broadway Dallas encourages excellence in reside musical theatre with year-spherical performances for assorted audiences of all ages, impacting the life of little ones and people by education and learning and neighborhood outreach applications, although enriching the cultural landscape of North Texas and the Southwest Area.
As a 501(c)(3) non-earnings business, Broadway Dallas depends on a variety of funding resources to give economical ticket rates, protect the attractive historic theatre, educate young audiences and produce impactful community courses.
Broadway Dallas gratefully acknowledges the aid of our time sponsors, annual fund donors and corporate associates Germania Insurance plan, American Airlines, Texas Instruments, The Dallas Morning Information, and WFAA Television set Channel 8. For extra information and facts about Broadway Dallas, check out our internet site at BroadwayDallas.org.